Happy New Year! I trust that 2025 finished well for each one and I do hope that you have considered the significance of our theme last year of Continue. This year I am asking the Lord to help us focus our attention on things that we need to intentionally continue to RENEW in order to keep them refreshed in our lives. I fear that far too often we as Christians can become a bit stale spiritually if we just go through the routine of continuing in the things we should do, but we fail to RENEW the reason for which we do those things in relationship with the Lord. If we are going to be faithful until the Lord returns, we cannot allow ourselves to go through the motions of activities but not refreshing our heart in the “why” behind the activity itself. I want us to contemplate the importance of letting the Lord RENEW us in our spirit and heart in daily relating with Him personally and intimately. The experience of letting the Lord RENEW us in our spirit will help keep us restored in our inner being in a right relationship with God to keep us from becoming backslidden spiritually or mundane in our spiritual activity. To continue faithfully, we must RENEW regularly our heart to be engaged in our relationship with the Lord so our service can be glorifying to God. My prayer for us all this year is that we all will RENEW our focus on the Lord personally as individuals and collectively as a church. I pray we will RENEW the reason why we do what we do so we can do it better and bring greater glory to God. I pray that the focus to RENEW will help many take steps of progress in their personal relationship with the Lord in their faithfulness to worship services, their willingness to serve the Lord in church ministry, their obedience in giving to the work of the Lord, their engagement in helping to spread the Gospel, and their passion for their relationship with God to be more fruitful in their life. My desire is that our focus on this matter to RENEW will result in God being glorified more in each of our lives personally and in the Lord’s church here at Summerville as a whole.