The focus for 2015 at Northwest is "Make it Better" (You can listen to the teaching at www.churchonnorthwest.com/p/sunday-messages.html ). So in the spirit of  "Making it Better" I am going to make an effort to blog more often. Not long blogs, but things that relate to what is going on at the moment. For example, in an effort to make staff meetings better we are going to have a verse of the week. Something we can focus on through the week as a team.

The first of the year comes from Isaiah 43:18-19:

         "Forget the former things;
          do not dwell on the past.
          See I am doing a new thing!
          I am making a way in the desert
          and streams in the wasteland."

I had a high school coach who used to say, "I don't read yesterdays news."

We can't. We can't dwell on just what has happened in the past. Whether it is positive or negative, we can't dwell on it. We can learn from it and remember it. But we can't let it consume us to the point where we don't keep living for the next day.

We need to look to the future and figure out how we are going to change past failures or how we are going to do better at past successes. Let God lead us and do a new thing in our lives and in the life of the church.

How are you going to be better this time next year?