New Hope for the New Year: Experiencing Joy in a Season of Change
Welcome to 2024! What are your hopes and expectations for the new year ahead? For those of us who belong to Christ, we can experience joy in seasons of change. Today Pastor Darth shares the message, “New Hope for the New Year.”
2 Corinthians 5: 11-17 NIV
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
- What is Your Attitude Toward the New Year?
- What Part Do You Play in Change?
- Finding the Will of God in 2024