Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  A new year is like a new day multiplied a hundred fold.  Each day is a fresh opportunity to begin anew with God's grace and to grasp it as a gift from God.  Regardless of the adversity we face, with God's promise and power we can make each day a fresh experience of God's grace and love.  So it is with a new year.  It is a fresh gift from God, full of God's grace and love.  Resolve this year to accept this gift of life and with God's help to do that which would honor God and serve others.  God has a plan and purpose for our lives.  Open your life to God’s plan and ask God to give you his power to see you through.  As another new year dawns we can take hope in the promise of Christ walking beside us, guiding and strengthening our every step.  Trust this wonderful promise of God's love dawning each day in our lives with grace and hope.
 
(scripture of the week)
Yet this I call to mind
And therefore I have hope--
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning,
Great is your faithfulness.  (Lamentations 3.21-23)
 
(Prayer of the week)
Loving Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of another new day and another new year.  I open my heart and life to your plan and purpose for my life.  Forgive me of failures of the past, and give me new life through the miracle of forgiveness in Christ.  Help me to let go of the past and reach out to the promise of the future.  Give me power to overcome challenges and to bless all whose lives my path might cross, through your power, Amen!
Open your heart to God’s amazing love!-Pastor TJ
 
(quote of the week)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved –Helen Keller