Sermon for a New Year

My Pastoral Ponderings

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing.

Ephesians 1:3

I have been wondering what New Year’s Resolutions might look like this year, in the midst of this pandemic. I am one of those who usually enjoys making New Year’s Resolutions, but I have decided not to this year. It has been a long, difficult year. Most of us are probably just happy to have gotten to the end of it, and to have started a new year. I know that’s true for me. So, maybe this would be a good year to think a little less about New Year’s Resolutions, and a little more about something else. And what I want to offer today, in this sermon, is something a little different: New Year’s Blessings rather than New Year’s Resolutions. And my inspiration for this is…

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