Today is the first Sunday of 2018.  Have you made any new year’s resolutions? Are you planning a diet or a change in eating habits?  Have you lined up a new exercise program or joined a gym?  Are you planning retirement, increasing your saving and reducing your spending?  Is this the year you make those upgrades on your house?  Will you go for that promotion or change jobs?

We put a lot of thought into improving our everyday life but how much thought and planning do we put into our spiritual life?  What are your Spiritual Resolutions?  Do you plan to improve your prayer life? Prayer is so very important to living a Christian life.  Visit the prayer bowl in the foyer and pick a name of someone to pray for this week.  Are you going to read your Bible more?  You can put an app on your phone that will remind you to read, or we have a list of daily readings on the welcome table that you can take and use. Is this the year you will talk to that coworker, neighbor or family member about your Lord?

2017 was a very good year at Summit.  The Lord blessed us with eleven souls who were saved through baptism.  We have prayed for the Lord to continue to send us new families who want to work for His kingdom, and he has.  They have talents and gifts that will be used to help glorify God here at Summit.

May He make all your plans succeed.  Ps 20:4 For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you says the Lord.  Jer29:11

Brothers and sisters, let’s make 2018 a great year for you personally, and for the Lord’s work at Summit.

If you have not been baptized why not make this the year?

If you have not been living the life of a faithful Christian, make today the day to rededicate your life and have one of the Elders pray with you.

If you have not been the Christian husband, wife, parent, or grandparent that you need to be, make the changes to make 2018 the best year yet.

Forget what is behind and strain forward toward what is ahead.  Phil 3:13

Don’t look back – Look forward to 2018