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Here we are in 2025, Happy New Year! New Years Resolutions! According to one survey, only 36%, on average, make it past the first month of January, compared to 9% who successfully keep their resolutions throughout the year. (YouGov, Nov, 2019). Why is it that most New Year’s resolutions fail? The problem may lie in how people set goals, as well as how they adapt when obstacles come up. Today we are going to remind ourselves of the vision for ANCC. We had a good start last year to these but they have not completely bedded in and become second nature - to change the culture can take years! Our vision and priorities are not simply vague promises made to ourselves, others or God. They need to become part of our life. They are corporate, belonging to all of us, but they also need to become part of us as individuals. At each point today I am going to ask you to corporately commit to the priorities of our vision. Vision: We need vision for life and a vision for church.  Proverbs 29:18: Wh...
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All He Wants For Christmas is You Christmas Day, 2024.

Which Jesus Do you Love? Christmas is an amazing day. It’s also a day when we forget who Jesus is! Huh? I guess what I mean is that some people forget who Jesus is. Show video clip: Skit Guys - Baby Jesus is the same as Cross Jesus. Here’s the question: Which Jesus do you love? Baby Jesus  Isaiah 9:6: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.   The cute pictures of Jesus in the manger are actually an image recognised throughout most of the world. This Jesus doesn't offend anyone, is non-threatening, is an image of Jesus that makes people think that Christmas is for kids. Miracle Jesus Matthew 9:35:   Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and illness. Perhaps you like the Jesus who does miracles...

Part three: the Prodigal

Tonight we are going to continue looking at the parable of the Prodigal Son. So far we have looked at the father - the picture of our God. Then we have looked at the older brother - the picture of the unforgiving ones. Now we will look at the younger son. Luke 15:11-31: Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. 13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many o...