It is the start of a New Year, 2026. This preaching points us to the greatest new beginning of all — the gospel of Jesus Christ — where God offers forgiveness, new life, and a fresh start through the cross and resurrection, calling us to begin this year in faith and obedience to Him.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
Psalm 111:10 “The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do [his precepts]: his praise abideth for ever.”
Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Mark 1:1 “Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;”
Colossians 1:18-20 “18 And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:19 for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to dwell,
20 and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross”