Dear Congregation and Friends,
Happy New Year! We made it to 2011! What will you do with this year? Will you use it wisely or will you squander it on petty unimportant things? Life is precious, spend every minute of every day trying to be a better person. Whatever problem you have that’s causing you or your family trouble, it’s time for you to man up (or woman up) and deal with it. How long are you going to let anger control your life? How long are you going to let those broken relationships haunt your family? How long are you going to continue to be selfish, self-centered, and self-serving?
The world that we live in has gotten efficient at ignoring it’s problems. I tell you that we don’t have time to keep being bad. It’s time to get down to business for God. Chose this year the following things: (1) chose to make God the most important person in your life, (2) chose to make your wife or your husband priceless and invaluable in all that you think and do, (3) honor your children and your friends (children honor your parents) and learn to be humble, submissive, and obedient.
If you want to see a bad example of how to live, just look west to Hollywood where you will see some of the sorriest and most disgusting examples of human behavior that the world has ever known, and we put these people on a pedestal and look up to them, and for the life of me, I cannot figure out why. It’s time for the Christian people of this world to say, “I’m going to do what’s right”. In the old testament Joshua said, “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”. So what I want to say to you now, is that whatever nasty mindset or polluted attitude or disgusting secrets you may harbor in your life, it’s time to surrender it to Jesus. Stop being such a jerk and do what’s right. I believe that one of the problems in our world today is that we don’t know how to say what’s right and what’s wrong. 2011 is an opportunity to start fresh and new and to be committed to Jesus Christ and this church. Stop thinking about it and just do it!
Now a word about my health. I continue to take the chemo and will have new results from PET scans soon. I am completely astonished at the generosity of my family and friends and my fellow church members and thank God for that. Fighting for my life!
Sincerely,
Pastor Steve Pearson
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