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  • Pastor's Message: Challenging yourself with a new way to goal-set

    Rev. Richard Lee, New Hope Center|Updated Feb 1, 2019

    New Year’s resolutions are now underway—for at least the next two weeks. Wouldn’t it be better to resolve to never undertake New Year’s resolutions in the first place? In practice, we already never follow through with the resolutions we promised. Most New Year’s resolutions are broken almost as quick as we made them. Some of the novel New Year’s resolutions may include promising to be nicer, promising to go to church more than once this year, promising to be a better Christian, a better neighbor, and maybe, just promise to...

  • Keeping your resolutions in the New Year

    Rev. Richard Lee, New Hope Center|Updated Jan 4, 2018

    Have you seen the usual claims about how New Year’s resolutions fail? Would you admit that you’ve made a few New Year’s resolutions and the promises you made to yourself failed to pan out? Perhaps it’s not the promises that failed, but rather it is you who failed to follow through. It’s easy to blame the goals for not panning out, but if we are honest, it is we who fail to keep our own word to ourselves. In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Jesus told his hearers not to make vows since he knew that people are incapable of keeping t...

  • Being grateful in the year ahead

    Rev. Richard Lee, New Hope Center|Updated Jan 12, 2017

    If you are reading this article, then you have made it to another year. The year 2016 is notable for the seemingly high number of celebrity deaths that occurred. Some have adopted a superstitious view that the year of 2016 was somehow cursed. The fact is all of humanity is indeed “cursed” with mortality. It’s not the year, but our limited time on earth that we should be aware of. In our all-to-brief lives, we sometimes take for granted our family, friends, and good health. It is when we begin to lose all three of these that...