So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give, to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means. ~2 Corinthians 8:10-11 (NET)
With the New Year right around the corner a lot of us may be wondering what our New Year’s resolution will be while others may have resolved against resolutions. Whichever group you're in you, now is the time to reflect on your choice and determine if you have made the best choice possible according to your faith.
You don't always get what you pay for - sometimes, you get more.
by Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin
It's the greatest story never told: that of a boy who met Jesus and dared to ask Him all the questions that have consumed mankind since the dawn of time. His name was Segatashya. He was a shepherd born into a penniless and illiterate pagan family in the most remote region of Rwanda. He never attended school, never saw a bible, and never set foot in a church. Then one summer day in 1982 while the 15-year-old was resting beneath a shade tree, Jesus Christ paid him a visit.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.
~Fulke Greville
So, you've walked down the idle and become become a member of the body of Christ. Maybe you've been baptized, maybe you haven't. Maybe this is a decision that has long been in the works or maybe it was completely spur-of-the-moment and you just followed a feeling. Whatever the back story, you've finally arrived at the moment when you ask yourself: Now What?