New Year-New Beginning

^{2 Corinthians5:17} Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Looking back on 2011 there are plenty of things to be thankful for. Think of the hot meals, running water, roof over your head and breath in your lungs--we can start there and generate a HUGE list of blessings we've received over the past year. Looking back, there are also some things that weren't so great, decisions we've made or things we've said, people hurting us, or things we'd wished we'd done. The new year brings new opportunities, a new chance to step into what Paul talked about in his letter to the Corinthians. Jesus' invitation is not a new set of rules to live by, trying to live a good life-its much bigger than that. Jesus' invitation is to do away with the old person, and to be made new, born-again into a new person that is filled with God's spirit and able to live life as it was meant to be lived-to the full.

^John10:10 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.