New Year’s Blessing Service

Pastor Chris Ogden | January 5, 2025

We have a tradition of making the first worship service of the new year a time of meditation and prayer for God’s guidance and blessing on our church, our community, and on the ministries that God is calling us to do. In today’s message, we consider Terah, recorded in Genesis 11 and 12, who was the father of Abram who later became Abraham. God blessed Terah and led him from his birthplace in Ur toward the land of Caanan, but Terah could only go part of the way in his grief over a son who died young. We see God’s mercy and love given to Terah and his family even though Terah failed at the goal God had set for him. God’s blessing are not conditional, and we do not earn God’s blessings through what we achieve. God’s blessings come to us not because of who we are but because God is love.

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