There are few resources on the internet that provide full-text messages for pastors and teachers. We hope many more will become available in the future. Some are now charging money for the sermons they offer. While we do not think that there is anything ethically wrong with that, we have chosen to make ours available without charge as long as our expenses for doing so do not grow beyond our ability to meet them. Our church bears the cost for our internet site, and is happy to do so. If you have been blessed by the messages and freely desire to make a contribution to the church, you may certainly do so. The church mailing address is New Horizons Community Church, 2303 Evesham Avenue, Voorhees, NJ 08043. All such money received will go entirely to offset internet expenses. None will go to any individual, including Pastor Hoke. He is supported by the church and desires to make the messages available without expectation of financial reward.

Now to the information:

Our copyright notice states the following:

Copyright © 2003 J. David Hoke. This data file is the sole property of the copyright holder and may be copied only in its entirety for circulation freely without charge. All copies of this data file must contain the above copyright notice.

Except for the use mentioned above, this data file may not be copied (except for small quotations used with citation of source), edited, revised, copied for resale or incorporated in any commercial publications, recordings, broadcasts, performances, displays or other products offered for sale, or made available on the Internet without the written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be made in writing and addressed to J. David Hoke, Pastor, New Horizons Community Church, 2303 Evesham Rd. Voorhees, NJ. 08043.

Our main concern is that the messages are not used in such a way that would dishonor the Lord or that would benefit someone in a financial way who might claim them as his own and publish them for sale. 

Feel free to preach the messages in your church. You may quote the messages in your sermons. If, however, you put your messages on the internet, please give appropriate credit and, if possible, provide a link to our site. No one may place the messages on his site as his own work. You may freely link to our site, and you may put any of our messages on your site in their entirety as long as they have the appropriate citation and copyright notice included.

It is not our intent to unduly restrict their use by pastors or others who preach and teach the word of God. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

By putting the messages on the internet free of charge, we desire that the fullest use be made of them. We hope that preachers, who may not have had the opportunity for as much training as they would have liked, will find them useful in their own sermon preparation. We all learn from others. There is nothing we have received that someone else has not given us. And however original we may think we are, someone has probably said it better. It is said that one preacher made the statement that he would be original or nothing and he ended up being both.

So feel free to make use of the messages. Give credit where appropriate, and please let us know how the messages have been of help to you and to those to whom you minister.

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