It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?

How To Be Grateful
Part 1 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Now is the time to take a personal inventory and ask ourselves this question: Am I the person I want to be? Am I the person I ought to be? Am I the person God wants me to be? This 25 minute message is the first in a series about the basic makings of a good person, starting with gratitude.

How To Be Courageous
Part 2 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Take a step of courage, listen to this 21 minute sermon and break out of this gravitational attraction of the familiar. What is it that you need to do that takes courage? What step do you need to take in your life that is going to require you to quit listening to the chickens in your life?

How To Be Transparent
Part 3 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Transparency means owning your own story, not pretending to be someone else and not spinning your story to be smarter than you are or dumber than you are, poorer than you are, richer than you are, better than you are or worse than you are. Integrity is owning the story God has given us to write.

How To Be Proactive
Part 4 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Have you ever wondered which it is... Is God in control or am I in control? If God is in control, why does He talk about self-control? If the Bible promotes a kind of spirituality that is to be spirit-led then why does it talk about self-discipline? God grants to us responsibility for our life. He is still in control. He is still leading things, He is still opening and closing doors and windows of opportunity, but we are responsible.

How To Be Attentive
Part 5 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Pay attention! Maybe you've heard that from the policeman who just pulled you over. Maybe you are half-asleep when awake and half-awake when asleep. Maybe you stopped asking the question a long time ago. Maybe you are just going through the motions and have missed the moments of grace that God has put in front of you because you were not paying attention. The light may be about ready to turn green...so you better pay attention.

How To Be Loving
Part 6 of 6 :: It's A Brand New Year, Is It The Same Old You?
Our lives depend upon love. Living depends on love. You may exist...but if you’re not loving, you’re not living, you’re just existing. If the good news means anything it means that we don’t have to be the person that we used to be. The Gospel is the power that is within us that allows us to become what we otherwise would not have been. Listen to the final message in this series and see how, at the end, with all of these linked virtues, we are led to a place that we otherwise would have never been; when God produces within us the ability to love ourselves and to love other people. That’s the miracle, that’s the good news.