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Happy Re-New Year!. You Cannot Stay the Same—Change is Always Happening. “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Charles H. Duell, U.S. Patent Office director, 1899. “Who … wants to hear actors talk?” H. M. Warner, Warner Bros. Pictures, c. 1927.
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“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Charles H. Duell, U.S. Patent Office director, 1899
“Who … wants to hear actors talk?” H. M. Warner, Warner Bros. Pictures, c. 1927
“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.” Grover Cleveland, 1905
“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.” Robert Millikan, Nobel prize winner in physics, 1923
“Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.” Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, c. 1895
“Ruth [Babe Ruth] made a big mistake when he gave up pitching.” Tris Speaker, 1927
“The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty.”-----The Michigan banker who advised Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the new motor car company
“Gone with the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not me.” ---Gary Cooper
Change: • Do you cook on an electric or gas stove; OR do you cook on a wood burning stove? • Have you noticed change during your lifetime?
“The only person who likes change is a wet baby.” -- Mark Twain,
Positive change keeps the best of the old, but improves and adapts.
The Restoration Movement must take the gospel of the first century and live it in the 21st century! • We must “Restore” the church instead of just “being” the church.
In Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip, Lucy asks Linus, "Do you think people ever really change?“
Linus: "Sure, I feel I've changed a lot this past year.“ • Lucy: "I meant for the better."
Psalm 51:10“10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Isaiah 40:31“31 but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
Lamentations 5:21“21 Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; renew our days as of old”
Habakkuk 3:2“2 LORD, I have heard your speech and was afraid; O LORD, Revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.”
Romans 12:2“2 And do not br conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
2 Corinthians 4:16“16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”
Colossians 3:9-10“Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds 10 and have put on the new man, who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.”
Titus 3:5“5 not by works of righteous which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,”
“I suppose when we wake on January 1 the world will look the same. But there is a reminder of the Resurrection at the start of each new year, each new decade. That's why I also like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying, "With me you can always start afresh." Ada Lum
We Must Renew • Ourselves • This congregation • Our presentation of the Gospel
“The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to every generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of residence.”-- Helmut Thielicke, Leadership, Vol. 9, no. 3.
