SERMONS ON RESOLUTIONS
Our sermon ideas on Resolutions will help you preach a powerful message. Resolutions are on everyone's minds as they enter the new year. Now is a great time to preach on how to create goals that honor and glorify Jesus Christ. Prepare your messages on resolutions with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
How Can I Keep My Resolution to Read the Bible Daily? (1 of 2)
by Jonathan McLeod
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17). SCRIPTURE READING In 2 Timothy, the apostle Paul acts as a mentor to a young pastor named Timothy. In 2:15 and 3:10-17, Paul gives Timothy counsel regarding his treatment of the Scriptures.[Read 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:10-17.] NEW YEAR, NEW YOU This is the time of year when people make New Year's resolutions. [Talk about some common resolutions.] Unfortunately, most people don't keep their resolutions. A...
How to Make the Most of a New Year
by Rex Yancey
All of us in our own way seek to find meaning to life. This requires choices on our part. Solomon and Moses would be an example in contrast as to the choices they made. Solomon tried many things in his search for meaning in life. He tried lust, luxury, learning, liquor, labor, and laughter before he finally tried the Lord. Moses was one of the greatest men in the OT, if not the greatest. He was the opposite of Solomon. He did not reign on a throne. He built no pyramids. Why did God use him in such a remarkable way? He wrote the first five books in the OT. He led Israel out of bondage. He led the people in the wilderness for 40 years...
Resolutions?
by M. Jolaine Szymkowiak
One of the great traditions of the New Year is the writing of or at least thinking about the writing of a New Year's Resolution. By the time the month of February comes around, most of the initial resolutions have been broken, a second or third set written and also broken. That is just the way it is; mostly because we put greater expectations on ourselves than we can possibly pull off by our own means. ''The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse'' (Helen Keller). Sometimes...
The Power of a Resolution
by Steve Jones
Ted Williams - Baseball legend Ted Williams was one in a million, widely considered the most ''gifted'' hitter of his time. In the public imagination, Williams was almost a god among men, a ''superhuman'' endowed with a collection of innate physical gifts, including instincts. But all that innate miracle-man stuff - it was all ''a lot of bunk,'' said Williams. He insisted his great achievements were simply the sum of what he had put into the game. ''Nothing except practice, practice, practice will bring out that ability,'' he explained. ''The reason I saw things was that I was so intense...it was [super] discipline, not super eyesight.'' As a boy...
Spiritual Resolutions for a New Year
by Ken Trivette
When Jonathan Edwards was just a young man, he made five resolutions and lived by them faithfully: Resolved: to live with all my might while I do live. Resolved: never to lose a moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I can. Resolved: never to do anything which I should despise or think meanly of in another. Resolved: never to do anything out of revenge. Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. I would suggest to you that the resolutions of Jonathan Edwards would be...
Resolutions: Have You Checked in with God?
by Jerry Branch
We begin a New Year in just two days...are you ready? Have you started thinking about making any resolutions? You know...the New Year is actually a really good time to do some reflecting on the past, and start looking forward. It can be a great time to make new plans. Maybe to start work on your college or take a couple courses.Maybe to start thinking about raising a family. Maybe to plan a special vacation. Maybe to put things into motion for you to make a fresh start Start a diet Change your style of living Change your spending habits Change your hairdo. That's why a lot of people make New Year's Resolutions. But I've got...
New Year's Resolution
by Steve Jones
Brian Jones wrote that when he was a kid, the city where he lived hosted an annual Easter egg hunt at a park down the street from his house. One year as he stood at the starting line, he spotted, off in the distance, the gold egg. Each year the officials of the event placed one large, glistening golden egg in each age group's section of the hunt. The child who discovered it would triumphantly claim a large prize in front of all the other kids. Well, this was his year. He, alone, had seen the golden egg, tucked underneath the right-field fence on baseball diamond number four. When the gun went off, he ran with all his might past...
What Sort of Life Shall I Live in the New Year?
by Jesse Hendley
Turn with me, please, to the Book of Philippians, and we are thinking today of the sort of life we want to live in the New Year. Some Christians are THINKING people. That is, they SEEK to think about the best sort of life. Everybody does to some degree although many people do not really go into it but just drift with the current. But many people do think and do want to live the sort of life that will be the most effective, the happiest, the most blessed, and particularly the life of the Christian because that is the only one that can be effectual and blessed. 'What sort of life shall I live?'' The Apostle Paul answers it in Philippians 1:21 where he says...
An End Of The Year Commitment For A New Year
by Rex Yancey
Dr. Jim Futral is challenging Mississippi Baptists to pray every day next year before eight 0’clock for Self, Servants, and Souls. At the invitation today you will be given an opportunity to make that commitment. You will receive this form to fill out. I need you to return that form to me. You will also be given this pin for your lapel or dress. If you will wear it, you will have an opportunity to tell others what it is all about. Someone shared a story with me once about an elderly blind lady that was in a nursing home. This lady would make vocal requests to God in prayer. One morning a worker heard her praying as she was trying to fumble...
Winning Steps for the New Year
by Ernest Easley
I want to welcome you to 2005! I don’t know a better way to begin a new year than by being in the house of God with the people of God giving praise to the Son of God! And yet ... a lot of people no longer celebrate the arrival of the new year .. they celebrate the survival of the old year! And there may be something to that! Well .. on this first Sunday of 2005 ... I want to do more than just wish you a Happy New Year ... I want to show you from the Word of God how you can step your way through the new year with success! You need to decide this morning that 2005 is not going to be like 2004. You can expect the same...
How to Excel in the New Year
by Marvin D. Patterson
Attention: I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here we are at the beginning of a brand new year, the year 2011. Are you excited about the possibilities of this upcoming year? God has great things planned for you, and your family, and our church here at Grace Baptist! But He will do His part if we will do our part! We must pray like it all depends upon God, and we must work like we believe that God wants us to work. Maybe you had a rough year during this past year! It could have been family problems, or sickness, or job difficulties, or emotional struggles. Maybe you were laid...
The Gift of a New Year
by Fred Lowery
Thank you for your presence this morning as we begin this New Year and as we think about this past year and look ahead to the New Year. What would God have us do and next week I want to talk a little bit about this past decade. And what I believe is the mood of our country is one of fear. And how do we handle fear and how do we move forward in this new decade that God has given us. These next ten years we hope will better in a lot of ways than the last ten. But these last ten years have been quite interesting. And we’ll talk about that next week. Ten years ago a blackberry was a summer fruit. Green was...
Transformative Trust for the New Year
by Mark Karris
How Do We Form A Deep and Transformative Trust in God Introduction- Happy New Year Everybody!!! Here we are starting off a new year and we're ready to take it by storm. Right? Perhaps some of us have engaged in our yearly ritual, the ritual of establishing new resolutions or reestablishing the ones from last year or was that the year before. Some of us may have vowed to lose twenty-pounds, to rise an hour earlier in order to exercise, vowed to master a new skill or learn a new language. Maybe we have promised to give up chocolate, or TV or fats or carbs. Some of those might be valuable things to do in your life and...
New Year's Confidence
by David Cook
INTRO: It is so reassuring and confidence building to know that God and good will ultimately triumph over Satan and evil. Satan's mission has always been to steal, kill, and destroy - while the Lord Jesus came that we might have life to the full (John 10:10). We cannot trust in what we see only with our physical eyes in order to determine victory or defeat. In the present time, it appears that Satan has the upper hand and that he will triumph. Yet, we know on the testimony and truth of the Word of God that Jesus has already overcome through His coming to this earth as baby in Bethlehem - death on the cross - ascension to the Father and...
Flourishing in This New Year
by Donald Cantrell
New Years is celebrated in various traditions throughout the world: In Spain and several other Spanish-speaking countries, people bolt down a dozen grapes-symbolizing their hopes for the month’s ahead-right before midnight. In many parts of the world, traditional New Year’s dishes feature legumes, which are thought to resemble coins and herald future financial success; examples include lentils in Italy and black-eyed peas in the southern United States. Because pigs represent progress and prosperity in some cultures, pork appears on the New Year’s Eve table in Cuba, Austria, Hungary, Portugal and other countries...
How to Have Victory in the New Year
by Stan Coffey
I want you to see what Paul says about how to have victory in the new year. II Corinthians 2:14 - ‘‘Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the Savour of his knowledge by us in every place.’’ When we understand the victorious Christian life, we’ll understand that the victorious life is the normal Christian life. If you are not living victoriously as a believer today, if you are living in defeat then you are living beneath your privileges as a child of God. Someone is well said that the church has been subnormal so long that if we get normal, folks will think we’re abnormal. We are...
Looking in the Right Direction in the New Year
by William Wyne
Arriving at the right destination is intrinsically tied to looking toward and following the right direction. You will never get to the right destination if you allow yourself to continue to look in the wrong direction. There has to be the right equation to reach the right answer. Having the right mathematical equation in a problem will always produce the right answer. If you are trying to find the equation for the answer of C Square, you will not arrive at C Square by adding A square plus D square and get C square. The answer of C Sq. is the results of adding A square plus B square that equals c square. In this New Year, to arrive at the...
