January 16, 2011
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Reflections on the new year (series links)
Here are links to some posts I've written about the New Year, New Year's resolutions and so on ...
(updated January 2014)from 2008:
With the New Year Come New Resolutions, but How Can We Become Entirely New? (Lloyd-Jones)
from 2009:
One week into 2009: a prayer to press on & manifest Jesus (Charles Wesley)
New Year's resolutions? ... not "without God's help" (Jonathan Edwards)
from 2010:
dedication 2010 (reflections on God's Word & God's grace)
dedication 2010 (addendum): may He temper my tongue with love
year end reflections, # 1: "end of the year ... in the midst of heartache" | Letter 97 on joy
year end reflections, # 2: rejoicing in "The Often Unwanted but Necessary Gift" | Letter 98 on joy
from 2011:
your resolution - "Divine Intervention" by Lecrae
don't waste your new year ~ teach us, satisfy us, make us glad (Psalm 90:12-15)
from 2012:
A New Year's Eben-ezer (Morning by morning I do awake ... O! the mystery of sovereign grace)
a little child set in our midst leads us into the New Year
Happy Birthday, John Piper ~ reflections on year-ends, aging, fruit bearing & Christian hedonism
from 2013:
Amazing Grace . . . upon Grace ~ the 240th anniversary
“… since thou hast been thus gracious …” ~ Susanna Anthony and grace upon grace
the fitness HE requireth: in distress, in debt, discontented ~ I Samuel 22:2
from 2014:
Being sensible that I am UNABLE to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat him, by his grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ’s sake..."
John 15:4-5 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do NOTHING.
Related posts:
Bible Reading: Ephesians 4 and 5-The New Man
why we need a new heart (Bible reading - Matthew 5)
Postcards from God in England: sanctification is gloriously messy!
6th Sunday after Epiphany Characteristics of true religion, # 2, part 1-honesty & sincerity
Characteristics of true religion, # 2, part 2: Not of the letter but of the Spiritthe believer's sanctification and calling an "impossible possibility" (Telecast)
Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
(You can find the links to my other series here.)
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