All Things New
April 7 – May 26, 2024
We live in a culture that is obsessed with new. New cars, new clothes, new technology, new ideas, the list goes on and on. In the words of the historian Ted Ownby, our culture is shaped by “The Dream of Novelty.” This dream, he says, “involves a romantic, necessarily unquenchable thirst for the new experiences promised not simply by consumer goods but by the novelty of progressing from one product to the next.” However, this kind of new doesn’t remain new for long and means we live in a world where nothing lasts. But what we are promised in Jesus is not the plastic newness of a shiny new toy; it is lasting newness that touches all of life. Jesus’ resurrection means that he is making all things new, and his work of renewal begins with you.