Pastor’s Corner January 2014

The following was published in our monthly newsletter, the Redeemer Report.

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Ten Questions to ask Yourself at the beginning of 2014

Here we are, facing a new year. I have a very simple exercise as you begin 2014. Don Whitney writes thoughtfully about spiritual growth. He poses ten questions to ask at the beginning of a new year. Read each of the questions and contemplate your answer:

1. What’s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

3. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?

5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?

6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?

8. What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?

9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in 10 years? In eternity?

If I could encourage the Redeemer family with one verse at the beginning of 2014, as I mentioned in the last Advent sermon on bringing peace, it would be Colossians 3:15- “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.”

May God bless each of you and guide you into deeper love for Christ and service in His Kingdom.

In the Lamb,

Pastor Tony Felich