As we enter 2025, we encourage you to spend some time reflecting and examining how the Lord has worked in your life over the past year, in the joys and the sorrows, in the ugly and the beautiful.

A New Year is a time to reflect while also looking ahead. We encourage our congregation to reflect on how the Lord was at work in your life in 2024 and consider what 2025 might look like as you lean on and depend on Christ for spiritual transformation and union with Him.

Take advantage of this time. When many are making New Year's resolutions and recalibrating, use this time to pray and consider the Lord at work in your past, present, and future. These are not meant to be resolutions you will break next week but prayerful considerations of how God has been at work and might be at work in the future. God's faithfulness is greater than your firm resolve.

To that end, we would like to provide a few resources for the New Year. Find those below!

7 Days of Prayer: As we enter into a new year, let’s petition God for his grace in our lives, our church, and our world. Pray through the following prompts using the Scriptures provided to guide your time. 

Annual Examen: This is a great resource for reflecting on how the Lord has been at work.

Bible Reading Plans: The Word of God is living, active, and used by God to reveal Himself, diagnose ourselves, and lead us into His mission in our world. A few great options are The Bible Recap, M'Cheyne Reading Plan, and Revised Common Lectionary.

Soul Wheel: An easy-to-use tool designed to help determine the current condition of one’s soul and is ideal for an individual, a couple, or group use.

Seeking God’s Face: Seeking God’s Face is a daily guide for prayer and devoting one’s day to the Lord. We use this resource as a staff team and I encourage you to do the same.

Prayer Liturgy - This is a simple tool to help cultivate communion with the Lord through prayer. This is a simple liturgy that you can use alone or with others.

Rule of Life - This article will introduce you to a way to intentionally keep God at the center of your life by engaging regular life rhythms.

The Common Rule - If you want to go deeper in considering how to create better rhythms to center Christ in your life, this book will help you to think purposefully about them.