New Hope Brisbane

Matt Prater

Matt Prater is the Senior Pastor at New Hope Brisbane

Jumpstart the Flatline

Sometimes when life gets busy, we end up running and running and we can become numb to the most important things. When we go to a football game and there’s no passion for either team, when there are emotional struggles and we don’t even cry, when we are so focused on doing things that our heart grows hardened. We can flatline. We end up doing more than being.

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Reflections on the Holy Land – Israel Tour 2013

Since the trip I feel like I’ve been born–again—again! You know that feeling when you become a Christian? You want to read the Bible, and sing worship songs, and it’s like everything is fresh, and alive to you! Well since the trip, I feel the same. I read the Bible and it’s like, ‘I’ve been there, I’ve seen that place!’ At Church on the Sunday I came back, we sang Days of Elijah and, when it says, ‘out of Zion’s Hill salvation comes,’ I thought, ‘I’ve seen Mt Zion, I was just there!’

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