Christmas is behind us and the new year is here. It's time to move on--and to make some new year's resolutions. To exercise more and eat less. To break a bad habit and start a good one. Problem is, just as we make these resolutions, we find ourselves breaking them.

I'm hoping the same is not true about our commitment to spiritual growth during the year ahead. One of my favorite verses is found in Isaiah 43:18-19, and the new year seems like a good time to read it all over again: "Do not remember the former things nor consider the things of old. Behold I WILL DO A NEW THING. Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."

Hmmmm. New things for the new year. Through this verse, instead of us making a resolution with God, which we can never keep, He's making a resolution with us, which He can never break. All we have to do is reach out and take the new thing He is offering to us. How do we do that?

Broadcast 29 examines four ways of bringing about a life-changing resolution by showing you how to let go of the old and take hold of the new.

So listen up and join me in a new year for new things.

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