Did you mess it up already?

We are fully into 2025 now (3 whole days). Maybe you already messed up your New Year’s Resolutions. Please, please…just get going again. Whether it was reading your Bible every day, eating better, going for a daily walk, reading a book or whatever, just get back and get going!

One of the key reasons we tend to fail on promises we make to ourselves is simple. We are trying to fulfill it all by OURSELF!

Bring others into your plans and goals. Let them encourage and support you as you intentionally make some moves in the right direction.

No matter how you intend to be a better you…don’t try any of it ALL ALONE!

“Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 NLT)

How would you like to win something?

Happy New Year!!!!

Our first worship experience of the New Year will be Thursday, January 2nd. So, for our Thursday service only, we’re doing some give-a-ways. Everyone who comes Thursday night to the worship service at 6:30pm will be put in the drawing.

You could win gift cards to a local restaurant or even a large landscape print from me.

Bottom line, we’re excited to get the New Year started with a bang and want to celebrate with you.

And remember, on Thursdays we have dinner at 5:30pm.

“So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.” (1 Thessalonians 5:11 NLT)

Are you ready?

Are you ready for a NEW YEAR? Are you ready for uncertainty? Are you ready for ups and downs? Are you ready for an adventure? 2025…here we come!

No doubt, 2025 will be filled with all kinds of things; some we’ll enjoy and some we won’t. However, through it all, we can choose to be ALL IN no matter what. ALL IN with Jesus because we know He is ALL IN with us.

Our hope is in Him. Our hope is that anchor for our souls.

“This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. ” (Hebrews 6:19 NLT)

How does this sound to you?

How does a CLEAN SLATE sound to you?

Isn’t that the feeling you get as we approach 2025. With a New Year comes new opportunities and a fresh, clean slate!

The real question is, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT?

Before you can make the most of what’s ahead, you need to take some time in the next few days and learn from what happened in 2024. Learn from the good, the bad and the ugly.

After you learn from it…let it go. Don’t hang on to it. Don’t let your mistakes or baggage weigh you down. Get ready to move forward because God is ready to do something new in you!

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV)

Grateful for you all!

On this Christmas Day, yes, I’m grateful for Jesus, but I’m also grateful for you. Thank you for taking the time to read these blogs.

As we start the countdown to a New Year, let me suggest a couple of things you can do.

1-Call a friend. Let them hear you say how much you appreciate them.

2-Make a list. This is not a list of resolutions for the New Year, but a list of things you saw God do in your life this past year.

3-Recommit to being ALL IN! As you do…invite HIM IN!!

One last thing before you go…There is NO Thursday night service this week, but we’ll be back to our regular Thursday schedule starting Jan. 2, 2025.

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” (Revelations 3:20 NIV)