Alva Baptist Church

New Year's Resolutions

Who's plans are the most important?

James 4:13-15 

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." 

John Morrison Preaching on the occasion of the New Year
About New Year's Resolutions

Merry Christmas!
#What'dyaget?

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! 
2 Corinthians 9:15 

Simeon was waiting for the consolation of Israel

God's heart for humanity that was focused on a place and a people at a particular time, that heart, continues to love and to show Himself mighty on behalf of those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

Joseph and Mary marvelled at the things they are hearing from Simeon about Jesus in Confirmation about who this boy will be.

The scripture to guide, and the power of God to confirm through prayer, God's providence revealed through circumstance, and godly counsel in the community of faith.

Give a listen...

Isaiah 51:1 "Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance-- all who seek the LORD! Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined.

 5 My mercy and justice are coming soon. My salvation is on the way. My strong arm will bring justice to the nations. All distant lands will look to me and wait in hope for my powerful arm.

 6 Look up to the skies above, and gaze down on the earth below. For the skies will disappear like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing. The people of the earth will die like flies, but my salvation lasts forever. My righteous rule will never end!

Christmas continues past the day of the giving of the gift

The First Gift; God's Gift; The Saviour: Jesus of Nazareth (Born in Bethlehem)

The Light of the World stepped down into darkness

God's Gift is His Son's Life for the World

There were many things that you would not expect about God's strategy to save the world.  Here are five: