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Here are 44 sermons appropriate for the beginning of a new year. Some of them speak to faith, some to making a new start, some to the need for trust in God’s promises, some to contentment, and some to overcoming fear. Please feel free to use this material in any way that might be useful as you prepare sermons and Bible studies.

A New Start

Why I Am Not a Pessimist

Why We Keep Believing

Why We Never Give Up

You Can Stumble, But You Won’t Fall

Lord, Please Change Me

Growing Faith

On the Victory Side

Trees Planted by the Water: How to Get Started Right in the New Year

The Standing Orders of the Gospel

Will 2011 Be a Happy New Year?

What We Owe the Past, What We Owe the Future

God’s Grace

What God Remembers That We Forget

Why God prefers Losers

Knocked Down But Not Knocked Out

Four Cracked Pots

His Love Endures Forever

Doing God’s Will

Come Before Winter

When You Need to Know, You’ll Know

How to Have Joy All Year Long

Do You Know What Time It Is?

Hope for the Future

Iron Shoes: God’s Promise for Every New Year

God Finishes What He Starts

Yet

One Word You Shouldn’t Say in 2011

Three Things Not to Worry About Next Year

Overcoming Fear of the Future

Spiritual Growth

Let Us Fix Our Eyes on Jesus

Living on a Spiritual Plateau, Part 1

Living on a Spiritual Plateau, Part 2

Strength for the Journey

Think on These Things

A Friend in High Places

Contentment

Three Things Not to Worry About Next Year

Grumblers Anonymous

How to be Happy in Babylon

Some Advice to the Discontented

Have a Blast While You Last

Daily Bread Living

Peace, Be Still! A Short Sermon from the Sea of Galilee

Letting Go of the Past

The Year of Good Riddance

What Christ Does With Failure

Dealing with Hard Times

Why God Makes It Hard When It Ought to be Easy

Why is Life so Hard?

There is No Growth Without Struggle

Can God Set a Table in the Wilderness?