New Year Archives

Daily Directions for Holy Living, by Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Richard Baxter, an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian (1615-1691), wrote an inspiring essay on daily living for Christians. Baxter was a...

How Do I Change My Life? Two New Year’s Resolutions that will work!

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. The question, “how do I change my life?” is really answered by WHO can change my life. Jesus is the answer. The only thing that brings true and lasting...

Look up! A New Year’s Motto by James Smith,1865

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. “Look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!” Luke 21:28 We are entering a new year. We shall have new toils, new...

The Gate of the Year: A Message to a Troubled Nation

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Scroll Down For The Video & to Read the Full Poem We stand at the gate of the year. A new year is dawning, and it’s time to say goodbye to the old. ...

What are “The 70 New Year’s Resolutions?”

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), pastor, theologian, missionary, college president, and prominent leader in the First Great Awakening, is long remembered for...

A New Year’s Meditation by Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Matthew Henry wrote the following on January 1, 1713. He was 50 years old and died the next year. “My times are in Your hand!” Psalm 31:15 Firmly...

A New Year, A New Hope, It’s My Year – Guaranteed to Make You Smile!

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Inspiration for the New Year: For Days of Auld Lang SyneWhat are “The 70 New Year’s Resolutions?”A New Year’s Meditation by Matthew Henry (1662-1714)A New...

Is a New Year’s Eve party biblical? What about the alcohol?

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Celebrating the new year is biblical, but how you celebrate might not be. The nation of Israel celebrated the advent of the new year, and they did so in...

A New Year, A New Start. . .Another Resolution?

by Chuck Myer, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. It’s the dawn of a new year. For some of us this past year was a good one, for others a difficult one, and for some perhaps it was a year of little...

A New Year, A New Beginning

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Hear the poem that calmed war-torn England in 1939 as they entered into a new year with a very uncertain future. Learn the story behind the poem....

Good Reminders for the New Year

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Daily Bread Devotions by Chuck Myer Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources As we start the New Year let us bring to our remembrance some great...

I Resolve To…

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. What are your New Year’s Resolutions? How will they direct your life in the New Year? Take a minute and watch the video, then read of three...