NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

In just a few days we will celebrate another New Year.  People have different ways observing the holiday.  Some will over indulge in drinking and regret it the next day.  They will wake up January 1st having no memory of their activities or behavior the night before. (Probably a good thing they can't remember because they would be seriously embarrassed if they only knew!)  Some will bring in the New Year dancing to their favorite tunes and with some of their closest friends.  Some will stand in the freezing night air to watch the ball drop in Times Square or, closer to home, the giant "peach" downtown Atlanta.  Some, like myself, will do my best to stay awake until the stroke of midnight, kiss my wife goodnight and then go to sleep!

However we bring in the New Year, many of us will make the infamous "Resolutions."  We will resolve to exercise more, eat less, save more, spend less and, generally, take measures to make our life better, more productive in 2011.  If you are able to keep them, resolutions can be good.  They can help you make important changes in your overall life.  But even the best resolutions and the most faithful commitment to them  come up short of the life-change many of us need.  Far better than resolutions, are life "renovations."

Resolutions are things WE decide to do in our lives.  Renovations are things only GOD can do in our lives.  We'll focus on these "renovations" in worship this coming Sunday.  I hope you will join us!  I've attached a poll to the right of this message.  Let me know how many of you plan on making resolutions this year!  I'd love to know.

Happy New Year!
Stuart

WORSHIP IS ON FOR 11:00!

We WILL have worship today, Dec. 26th, at 11:00.  We hope you can make it, but please be careful.
Stuart