Best of New Year’s Viewpoints

By Michael Griego on December 31, 2024 • ( 0 )

Happy New Year! Another year winds down and a new one starts up. Select and read here a set of thought-provoking new year perspectives. ♦

As the holiday season comes to an official end this week, we are all once again facing a New Year with emotions ranging from excitement and joy to fear, anxiety and uncertainty.

Of course, no one’s path is easy. But how we face that path in our own heart, mind and soul is what makes all the difference in the world.

As I have been writing these weekly Biblical Viewpoints for the past 12 years, there is now a varied collection of New Year’s Viewpoints with thoughts and notions about the annual winding-down and gearing-up exercise we all going through at this time of year.

May your mind, heart, and spirit be stirred and encouraged. Have a Happy New Year!

9 Viewpoints
Here are 9 Biblical Viewpoints about New Year’s for you to choose and read at your leisure between drinks, food, parties, parades, and ball games. If you’re familiar with my approach, these Viewpoints are targeted for Christians of all levels, as well as, I believe, non-Christians who are open-minded and inquisitive to the very real questions, issues, and concerns that arise when contemplating the deeper things in life.

May your mind, heart, and spirit be stirred. Have a Happy New Year!

Assessing for New Year’s Blessings – Here are 4 familiar but challenging questions to assess the past and prepare for the new year. Are you becoming truly wiser in your aging? A better you? Toward what end? Read here . Listen to the Podcast here.
The New Day (A New Year’s Story) – He hated himself and what he’d become. He felt like a failure. To everyone. Even God. Read here.
And So We Start Again – What is January but a time to reset life on the maturing foundation of our hopes, fears, and good intentions? It’s good to remember that our plight is not unique. Read here.
Tithing and God’s Grace – At every year-end the issue of giving and tax deductions come up. This matter can be a turnoff, guilt trip, or legalistic compulsion. Consider the pressures and mixed messages on this highly personal and controversial topic. Read here.
Daniel’s New Year – Anticipating a rough new year? Do you have troubles and challenges facing you? For some perspective, it’s hard to match the upheaval faced by a young teenager named Daniel. Read here.
The New Year Plan – Here’s a New Year Planning Tool that’s easy, quick, but profoundly powerful in resetting your course in life. While you will not find the New Year Plan in the Bible, it is a game changer in providing guidance and practical steps to do what you really want to do. Read here.
3 Christian Resolutions – I maintain that there are 3 resolutions that every Christian should make. I also maintain that any non-Christian would be wise to understand these. Read here.
The Christian New Year’s Resolution Challenge – In general, New Year’s Resolutions are fun and silly. Here’s one that’s more spiritual than physical, more practical than frivolous, more difficult than impossible. Read here.
Yesterday, Today, and the New Year – As this year winds down another starts immediately, here are 3 questions to ask to give yourself an honest head-start in January. Read here.

Have a very Happy New Year!
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“To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” – 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12