New Year Resolutions often don’t last the first week of the year, but I do believe that new year is an excellent time to renew again the basic COMMITMENTS of following Jesus.

Keep your new year commitments as short, simple and specific as possible.  Don’t have 25 goals, each made up 10 projects, and don’t let yourself be “vague” either.

Let me suggest a simple starting point for a plan you can adapt for yourself:

1. Read your Bible through in 2012

Find a simple plan to guide you. Here’s a great site to help:

youversion.com

You can sign up for free, and use the main site or download the apps for your smartphone or tablet. It has lots of great Bible reading plans to choose from, including basic through the Bible in a year options.

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There were a few GOOD kings in the old history of Israel (more in the Northern kingdom of Judah than the Southern kingdom of Israel), but mostly both kingdoms had wicked kings.  And of all the wicked kings in either kingdom, we’re scraping the barrel when we get to a man called Manasseh. He was about as evil as they got. Think Hitler, Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein all rolled into one.

We read his story in 2 Chronicles 33:1-11.

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