Calvary Baptist Church

We humans like to hear new stuff so much a whole industry has been developed to give us "news."  Personally I don't care for "breaking news", especially when it is during a key moment of a program I am watching.  Can't it wait?  We not only like new information, we like new stuff.  We'll even take old stuff if it is new to us.  Pastor Ben and I were talking about this today, we both have great guitars (Taylors ) but we're still on the lookout for new ones.  Jeep people are this way too, a current Jeep is nice, a new one would be awesome.  What is the deal with this desire for new things?  Sometimes it is simply discontentment.  Sometimes it is coveteousness.  But, I think there is something deeper at work in our spirit than that.  We like "new" because we know the old isn't what we thought it was.  It didn't for us what we had hoped.  We keep looking for the new thing, the new place, the new person, the new widget; life as it is in this current day is not what God intended.  We were created for more.  What if all these desires for "new" really point to something eternal, something really new!??  As we start this New Year, I hope you'll join us on Sunday morning for Communion and a look at what it means that Christians are new people.  See 2 Corinthians 5:17 for the key verse and the context of this great promise.  What's new with you?