Resources for a New Year

Both my first newsletter article and my first sermon of the year deal with starting fresh and a new opportunity for awesomeness. Below are links to other posts I've found helpful as I look forward to a new year. Thanks to LivingLutheran.com for most of these.

13 inspirational quotations for 2013 

- Shared by ELCA pastors 

Resolve to live a better story in 2013

- Brian Beckstrom asks, "So instead of making the usual resolutions this year, why not resolve to live a better story?" 

 

Evangelism resolution 

- Sue Edison-Swift on how we can tell the story of our faith

 

Happy 25th Birthday to the ELCA 

- from Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson

- from Martin Marty

 

Maintenance or Mission?

- Bishop Jon Anderson of the Southwestern Minnesota Synod shares a helpful set of contrasts to consider as we look to a new year together in mission

 

A church “building project” that made a difference

- Sarah Moon shares the story of how one congregation's small change made a big difference

 

The Church's Generational Log Jam is Making Everybody Cranky 

- Keith Anderson on the misunderstood intersection of generations in our churches