Friday, January 3, 2020

JOHN Good Morning! I’m John Branning the Lead Pastor of Central United Methodist Church. This Sunday marks the first Sunday of the year and the first for the 2020s. This is a time of new beginnings and a time for new choices, new experiences, new hopes, and dreams. Can we allow this new year to inspire the desire for new experiences and initiatives in God? Can we choose to pray for, expect, and act within the divine order of a new cycle...break out of the "same old-same old" and choose to believe in His power to do exceedingly abundantly more than we could ask or imagine? The new season beckons us to this: If we believe that our Lord is really on top of things, if we believe that He can even redeem our mistakes, then we ought to be filled with expectation for change, great change in our lives, by His divine power to work in and through us. Entering this new season can inspire a choice in faith, to love and serve with greater devotion than ever, perhaps in ways that we have only dreamt of before. A new year is upon us. Let's make the choice for change—He will "do a new thing."