Central Baptist Church, Portsmouth, Virginia

I get it—having a New Year’s resolution is a cliché. Almost everyone is doing it, and most of them are just going to fail by February, so why bother? But here’s the thing: none of us is perfect. We all have things that need to change, and as followers of Jesus, we’re actually in the very business of being changed by His power! And psychologists tell us that the absolute best time to make changes in our lives is at the start of something new, like the beginning of a month or on a Monday or on a birthday. So there’s pretty much no better time to stack the deck toward positive change than a new year.