Looking for a Year of Impossible Things

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“Most people fall flat with their New Year’s resolutions because what they really want is to change the window dressing in their lives rather than things that are at the core of their being.” - P&D

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American Council of Christian Churches: Resolution on Eastern Orthodoxy

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“God calls biblical churches to have no concord with a false religious system, which actively promotes belief in a continuing oral tradition equal to Scripture… a defective view of Christ’s atonement, which diminishes the sufficiency of His once-for-all sacrifice at Calvary… the veneration of icons…” - ACCC

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American Council of Christian Churches: Resolution on Video Games

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“The video game industry especially fosters this by creating addictive virtual worlds, oftentimes filled with occultism, profanity, sensuality, triviality, and lurid violence. Gamers are rewarded for their distractibility, recklessness, greediness, and perversity, and they are encouraged to think of themselves as heroes for conquering fake substitute realities in a short period of time.” - ACCC

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New Year’s Resolutions: Some Guidance from Psalm 119:59

Many Americans have welcomed 2022 by making New Year’s Resolutions. “A new year resolution,” according to one dictionary, “is a commitment that an individual makes to one or more personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. This lifestyle change is generally interpreted as advantageous, and it’s done to improve [a person’s] wellbeing.”1 According to a recent study by Statista,2 the 10 most popular New Year’s resolutions are as follows (which I’ll list in reverse order):

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