{"id":32161,"date":"2025-01-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?p=32161"},"modified":"2025-01-03T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:34:35","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Happy New Year!\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-01-01T01:00:00+11:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT8M12S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&quot;1&quot; _builder_version=&quot;4.16&quot; global_colors_info=&quot;{}&quot;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&quot;4.16&quot; background_size=&quot;initial&quot; background_position=&quot;top_left&quot; background_repeat=&quot;repeat&quot; custom_padding=&quot;0px||0px|||&quot; global_colors_info=&quot;{}&quot;][...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"7.5\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2FHappy-New-Year---2025.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fhappy-new-year%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=32161-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 8:12 &#8212; 7.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Read&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<p class=\"p1\">Another day. Another year. A year of change\u2026?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his <i>Choruses from the Rock<\/i> written in 1934, TS Eliot prophetically observed:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0 But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0\u00a0 Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and this has never happened before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0\u00a0 That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and then Money, and Power, and what they call Life, or Race, or Dialectic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0\u00a0 What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in an age which advances progressively backwards?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What is the most pressing issue as we enter the new year? TS Eliot suggested it is the matter of God in our lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As a culture, the Western world today rejects the notion of there being an ultimate truth. It is said that at best we can only have opinions. You have your opinions and I have mine. To tell me I am wrong is to be arrogant and judgmental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>But here is an irony<\/b>. To slow down disease and the aging process, people are looking to medical science for solutions. And the only way remedies can be developed, is to work with an objective body of knowledge that can be tested through experiment and reasoning. If there is no agreed world view concerning this kind of knowledge there can be no assurance with respect to a cure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And many scientists would agree. Where some might disagree is with a world view that holds that there is a creator God. And this is because they deny a world view that underlies the meaning of what are called the natural laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We find ourselves with <b>a dilemma<\/b>. We live in a world where social progressivism denies objectivity and the idea of truth. On the other hand, the same world is dependent upon the fact of objective truth when it comes to the laws of nature and the search for cures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>So, what should we do?<\/b> Let the light of God\u2019s gospel shine in our lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Luke 11:29-32 Jesus had been reminding the crowds that in response to Jonah\u2019s preaching, the people of Nineveh had repented and turned to God. He also commented that the Queen of Sheba had travelled hundreds of miles to learn from the wisdom of King Solomon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He then went on to make an astonishing announcement: <i>\u201c\u2026 Something greater than Solomon is here\u201d<\/i> (11:31). Was the growing crowd around him aware they were in the presence of greatness itself \u2013 indeed, God himself? Were they listening? Were they aware of what would happen if they turned their backs on him?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jesus concluded this teaching with these rather enigmatic words: <i>\u201cNo one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar, but on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light.\u201d<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Light and darkness<\/b> are images that bubble throughout the Bible. In the Gospel of John we read Jesus\u2019 words: <i>\u201cI am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life\u201d<\/i> (John 8:12). Furthermore, when we turn to Jesus God transfers us <i>from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his beloved Son<\/i> (Colossians 1:14).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So, to have the light, the lamp of the gospel shine in our lives, is the most wonderful privilege we have. How foolish of us not to let this light shine into our very hearts. Furthermore, we need to let this light so transform our lives that others will also see the changes. This will involve growing in the riches of God\u2019s love. It means that our lives will be shaped, not by the latest ideas of \u2018correctness\u2019 but by God\u2019s Spirit teaching us from God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It means recognizing that <b>all of humanity<\/b> in every age has its faults and failures. William Hazlitt, the 19th century essayist, drama and literary critic observed: <i>Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols &#8212; it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So often today God\u2019s people are falling short of letting the light of our faith shine for others to see. Wanting to avoid being seen to be intolerant or arrogant, we remain silent when it comes to the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, God incarnate. Many of us like to think we are good people because we refrain from sexual immorality or theft, living lives of outward integrity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But to live a complacent, self-satisfied life, thinking that all is well, and yet not praying nor looking for opportunities to reach out to others with God\u2019s truth, is to treat God\u2019s king with contempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Let\u2019s pray for one another as we start a new calendar year, that we will walk in the light of God\u2019s love, trusting him with our lives, and letting his light so shine through us that others will be drawn to the Lord Jesus themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his 1939 Christmas broadcast, on the eve of Britain\u2019s darkest hour in World War 2, King George VI concluded with this quotation: <i>\u201cI said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, &#8216;Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.&#8217; And he replied, &#8216;Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be better than light, and safer than a known way.\u201d<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Prayer<\/b>. Almighty God, you wonderfully created men and women in your own image and have now more wonderfully rescued and restored them. Grant us, we pray, that as your Son our Lord Jesus Christ was made in our likeness, so may we share his divine nature; we ask this through Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.\u00a0 <b>Amen.<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;40px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u00a9 John G. Mason<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Happy New Year!\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-01-01T01:00:00+11:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT8M12S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\n\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"7.5\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2FHappy-New-Year---2025.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fhappy-new-year%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-3\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=32161-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Happy-New-Year---2025.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 8:12 &#8212; 7.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>Another day. Another year. A year of change\u2026? 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