WE HAVE JUST BEGUN A NEW YEAR, THE DIGITS HAVE CHANGED ON OUR CALENDERS, THIS
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IS THE TIME AT WHICH WE ARE CALLED UPON TO START ANEW, TO

RING OUT THE OLD AND

USHER IN THE NEW.

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I SUPPOSE WE COULD APPLY THE SAME IDEAS

CHRISTIANITY AND TO OUR RESPECTIVE PERSONAL SPIRITUAL ENUKAVORS.
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ANY LIST OF RESOLUTIONS SHOULD BEGIN WITH "LOVE YOUR NEIGH

OTHBR SINGULAR RESOLUTIONS TO LEAD A BETYER LIFE. THIS I9

AND FEELINGS TO
WE COULD SAY THAT
BOR AS YOURSELF."

OR

VERY COMMENDABLE AND I

HEARTILY ENCOURAGE YOU ALONG THESE LINES--BUT I BELISVE CHRISTIANITY IS BIGGER THAN
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THAT. IT GOES DEEPER THAN NEW YSAR RESOLUTION LISTS. IT

HAS A MESSAGE THAT PERMEATES

ALL OF LIFE: THE NEWS THAT WE JOYOUSLY ANNOUNCED IN OUR CAROLS LAST WEEK IS URGENT

ALWAYS AND ESPECIALLY AT NEW YEARS.

—_—_

FIRST LET US TAKE A BRIEF LOOK AT THE TWELVE MONTH PERTOD BEHIND US AND THE

ONE THAT LIES AHEAD.
THE YEAR BEGAN WITH THE SETTLING OF THE MOST CRIPPLI

HAS EVER KNOWN. UNEMPLOYMENT ROSE WHILE COMMUNISTS CHUCKL

NG STEEL STRIKE OUR NATION

60 WITH DELIGHT.

IN CUPA FIDEL CASTRO BEGAN THE FIRST OF HIS MANY CONFISCATIONS OF AMERICAN
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PROPERTY AND INVESTMENTS.

A PREVIEW OF THINGS TO COME WAS SEEN AS FRENCH PRESI

DENT CHARLES DEGAULLE ORDERED

—_—

HIS ARMY TO HALT FRENCH INSURRSCTION IN AFRICA.

—_—

IN FEBRUARY WE WERE SHOCKED TO HEAR THAT DISK JOCKEY

S WERE MAKING OFF WITH

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ILLEGALLY. THIS IN TURN

PROMPTED AN INVESTIGATION
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OF ADVERTISING TEC NIQUES THAT WICKLY REVEALED HOW DISHOWEST AND HOW GULLIBLE G@i BS
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THE WORLD BECAME A LITTLE MORE UNEASY IN FEB. AS

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FRA
—

NCE JOIN THE CIRCLE

OF NATIONS CAPABLE OF DESTROYING THEIR ENEMIES wITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

C

AND IN WASHINGTON, IN THE SEVATE, MEN WHO WERE ELEC4

Ps

OF THE PHRASE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE") 7

IN ORDER TO AVOID A DISCUSSION THAT CHNTERED ON THE QUEST]
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ERENT COLOR HAS THE SAME RIGHTS AS A WHITE MAN.

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AS MARCH PEGAN THE FLAMES OF

_

HATRED AND RESEBT BETHH

BLOWING UP_§ MUNITIONS

FANNED WHEN CASTRO ACCUSED U.S. OF
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FIRED
IN SOUTH AFRICA POLICE KXMM INTO A CROWD OF DEMONSTH
— ’

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iD BY A PEOPLE THAT IS RMND
ALKED FOR 82 STRAIGHT HOURS

N OF WHETHER A MAN OF A DIFF

EN U.S. AND CUBA WERE

SHIP.
ATING NEGROES KILLING 86.

IN THE SPRIN: THE WORLJ WATCHED AS RUSSLA AND THE USS. CONTINUED THE ACE TO GaT

HST

THE BIGGEST AND B SATTILITES INTO SPACE.

POLITICAL FERMENT WAS IN THE AIR AS RLOTS OCCURED IN

AND ALGERTA.
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INDIA EXPERIENCED THE RUDE AWAKERNING OF OO MUNIST A
pone

CHES_MAN'S NAME AGAIN CAME TO THE EYE AS AMERICA DEMONSTRA

BARBARIANISM FOR THE WORLD TO SEE.

KOREA, TURKEY AND JAPAN

GRESSION AND CARYLE
—

TED VESTIGES OF MEVIEVAL

THEN CAME THE U2 INCIDENT AND A FAILURE AT THE SUMd}

—___

A LITTLE FURTHER AWZY FROM THe RSALM OF “<i 5)

AS SUMMER APPEARED WORLD FROPLEMS AND TENSION MOUNTS
—

——-

AMERI CAN PROPERTY INCENASED, AMERICANS RECHL VED A BLOW TO

FORCED OUR PRESIDHIT TD CANCEL A GOOD-WILL MISSION TO JAPAN.

KRUSCHEV THR-ATENED ROCKETS GF U.S. INTERVENED IN Q

ghee

AS CONGOLESS ARMY REBELLED.

THE FALL BROUGHT NO RELIEF AS CUBA BECAME OUTWARDLY
—

CONGO
PROBLEM IN THE NEW REPUBLIC OF THE

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THE AMERICAN SOUTH WHITE MOTHERS LINED THE STREETS TO SCRHAM

—

OLD NEGRO GIRLS WHO TOOK SERIOUSLY THE PRO

=

MISE OF LIFE, LI

HAP PINESS.

—

I HAVE NOT REVIEWED THESE VENTS THAT ARE NOW HISTRY

IN CURRENT EVENTS, BUT RATHER I !

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iOPE THEY WELL GIVE SGM I

XEH ERUPTED WITi A WAVE OF VIOLENCE,

T.\ PEACE ON HARTH MOVSD

D. CUBA'S SEIZURE OF

ITS PRSTIGK., WHEN RIOTING

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UBA AND RUMBLINGS FROM AFRICA

COMMUNIST, THE POLITICAL

AND IN
AND SPIT AT 6 YEAR

BERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF

IN ORDER TO INSTRUCT YOU

NDICATION OF THE "TONE OF THE JLMES

BY REVIEWING THE DARK STAINS ON THE YEAR 1960 PERHAPS WE CAN GIV E SOME CONCEPTION

OF THE PROBLEMS CHRISTIANITY MUST COPE ome ISSUES ON

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WiiICH IT MUSTTAKE A FIRM

STAND IF IT IS TO REMALN A DRIV.NG RELEVANT FORCE IN THE MDERN WRID.

AND HOW ABOUT THE FUTURE? WHO CAN POSSIBLY TELL? T

——

BE ONE FILL D WITH TENSION AND VIOLENCE.

——

THE PROELEM IN J

HS YAR 1961 1S DOOMED TO

Hi CONGO IS ONLY A SAMPLE

he

OF WHAT COULD OCCUR OVER THE ENTIRE CONTINMNT OF AFRICA AS

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THE TiR GAT OF ATOMIC W

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COUNTRIES STRIVE ROR INDEP ENDENCE.
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EACH TIME A NEW NATION DISCOVERS AND DEVELOPS TH METHOD

IN OUR QWN COUNTRY WE ARE NO LiSS CONTENT.

RACIAL PROELEM

THE BACKWARD
i
KR ANNIHILATMOENCREASES
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DF SPLITTING ATOMS. AND

5 WILL NOT DISAPPEAR

OVER NIGHT, DOMESTIC AND FINANCIAL Pid LEMS ARE OONSTANTLY|

POTHNTLAL CRISES. ~

BY NO ran s{0o WE LIVE IN A PEACEFUL AND HAPPY SRA,

BE SAID TO BE HAZY.

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AND WHAT APOUT ountsrIAtrye D
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OES IT FIT INTO THIS

eee Re
WORLD OF ToD AY?

TECHNICAL REVOLUTION? /

I DON'T WANT TO SOUND LIKE I'M GIVING A PEP TALK BUT

APPROPRIATE ON NEW YEARS DAY TO LOOK TO THE PAST AND FUTUR

OR HAS IT BseN CUTDATED BY M@ERN SOCISTY
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AT BEST THE FUTU he CAN

TROUBLED AND TENSION RIDDEN

| BY SCLENCE, BY THE
Leh Ck

I THINK THAT IT IS

& AND TO EXAMINE LIFE, THE

—_—

WORLD, OURSELVES AND SHS WHT ROLE CHRISTIMNITY PLAYS.

—

IN OCTOBER I PREACHED A SSMON TITLED "FIRST THINGS

FIRST" BURGING THAT YOU

—

SIMPLY WEIGH@ ALL THE COMPLEXITIES AND INS AND OUTS OF LIF

~—_e_

IT IS A POINT THAT I

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THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT.

AND TIME AGAIN.

E GIVING DUE RESPECT TO

—_——_

WILL RETURN TO TIME

IF WE ARE ACTUALLY SEROUS ABOUT CHHISTIANETY, IF WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE
acres

be

THAT THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY APPROACHED MAN IN THE PERSON OF

MUST BE OUR STARTING POINT.

DO AND SAY.

JESUS THE CHRIST THEN THIS
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THIS MUST BE THE GROUNDWORK THAT LIS BENEATH ALL WE

AS CHRISTIANS WE SAVE TAKEN ON OURSELVES GRAVE RESPO

A FALTH THAT CANNOT APPLY TD EVERYDAY SITUATIONS, TO POLIT

TO LIFE i ITS EVERYDAY IN RACACIES IS NO FAITH AT ALL. A
SIBLITITIES TO TAKE A STAND ON THE ISSUES THAT CONFRONT HI

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A LIGHT PUT A SHADOWL

NSIBILITI€S AND OBLIGATIONS.
CS, TO RACIAL ISSUES,

MAN WHO IGNORES HIS RESPON*

M IS NOT A CHRIS NoT

AS A CURCH WE IAVE R&SPONSIBILITIES TO THE OOMMUNITY OF DYER AND AS INDI

=
we

VIDUALS HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES TO OUR NIEGHBORS EVERY Ww}
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at

QUESTION f' AM I MY BORTHER'S cazesam a MUST ANSwsR A UNAN]

IN MAKING NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, IN OBERSVING THIS

TO THt OLD TEST.

Dr
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[MOUS YES.

P ME OF ROVEWAL WE

WOULD DO WELL TO FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS "FOR NO OTHER FOUNDA*

————

TION CAN ANY ONE LAY THAT THAT WHICH IS

——

LAID, WHICH IS JES

ON THE FOUNDATION WITH GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS SIONES, WOOD]
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WORK WILL BEQOME MANIFEST FOR THE DAY WILL DISCLOSE IT."

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THE CONFLICTS AND ISSUES OF SVERYDAY LFE ARE THE MEAS

WS CHRIS ?.

IF ANYONE WILDS
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HAY, STUBBLE, EACH MAN'S

Os “ “‘“‘ UU

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FAITH MUST ANSWER. IF OUR LIVES ARE BUILT ON SHABBY S TUPBLI

=

bURING STICK TO WHICH OUR

by WOOD AND HAY THEY A RE

TO NO AVAIL. BUT IF OUR ENTIRE MODE BASE
MODE OF LIVING IS ABASED ON

THs ULTIMATE

&;

REALITY; THAT GOD WAS IN aes THE STRUCTURE WILL TAHE ON THE MAGNIFICANCE OF A

/

SQLID AID ELABORATE EDIFACE, CAPAPLE OF WITHSTALANDING ALB} OF LIFE'S STORMS.

IN FLRST CENTURY CORINTH WORLDLY PROHLEMS WERE VERY

IMPORTANTJUST AS PRESSIN ©
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AND CMBICIAL THEN AS THEY ARE NOW. IN WRLITLNG TO HIS FRINIDS PACL INSTRUCTS THEM
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ON HOW TO MEET LIFE'S VARYING SITUATIONS IN DETAIL BUT TH

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EN HE MAKES THE MOsT

ASTONISHING ASSERTION. PRESSING AS THESE PROBLEMS san HE TELLS THM, DO NOT

DESPAIR FOR ULTIMATELY, IN THE FINAL gnasrsts(u THINGS 4RE YOURS, LIFE, DEATH AND
——

THE WORLD, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE ALL ARE YOURS, HECA\

SH YOU ARE CHRIST'S ANis

—

CHRIST is GOD'S.

ALL THE MARVEL AND WONDER OF THE WORLD AND ALL ITS BEAUTY ARE OURS IF WE HAVE EYES TD |

a

SEE AND HEARTS TO APPRECIATE. THESE ARE PARTS OF GOD'S GJFT IN JESUS CHRIST To

—_—___

EVERY ONE OF SU. THEXWHREXENRIXTXTOXRYERXONEX THE WHOLE

OF NATURE AND HUMAN LIFE
_—_——s

BECOMES, TO THE CHRISTIAN, A SACRAMENT PRIMMING WITH THE ¢

OF LIPE ITS JOYS AND PLEASURES, S@RROWS AND SUFFERINGS, IS

A GIFT FROM OUR HEAVENLY FATHER.

——

WHEN WE CONSIDER THIS, WE ARS CONFRONTED WITH THE Md
es,

———

RACE AND LOVE OF GOD. ALL

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POSSIBLE ONLY IN THAT IT IS

ST COMFORTING AND YET
a

ye

CHALLENGING NEWS MEN HAVE EVER HEARD. IN LIGHT OF THESE WORDS THE PROBLEMS OF

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LIFE BECOME BOLLUBLE BECAUSE LIFE ITSELF IS A GIFT. THE ]

———_

SSUES THATCROP UP

OUT OF THE PROCESS OF EXISTING ARE BROUGHT TO A HEAD/BECAJSE THEY TOO ARE A GIFT FROM

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GOD.

LET US NOT IGNORE THIS GLORIOUS NEWS, LET US NOT CONPARTMENTALIZE CHRISTIANITY.
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IT IS BIGGER THAN A SUNDAY MORNING AFFAIR. IT IS OUR FOUNDAT ON FOR LIVING IT IS

—

THE DURABLS GROUND WORK FROM WHICH WE CAN CONFRONT THE Is¢

SAYING EVERYTHING 1S MINE BECAUSE I AM CHRIST'S AND CHRIS]

UES OF THE WORLD CONFIDENTLY

——

IS GOD'S.

HAVE BSEN GIVEN ANOTHER NEW YEAR, AS WE BE IN IT

US REALIZE AND FULFILL OUR OBLIGATIONS AS casera

——_—_—_—$—_—————

Af
ISSUE THAT PUTS OUR FAITH TO A TEST. AND AROVE LET US STH
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LET US DO TWO THINGS. LET
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BACKING AWAY FROM AN

IVE 1 LIVE, TO EXIST,

TO OPERATE AS MEN WHO KNOW THAT ALL THINGS COME FROM GOD 1
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FOUNDATION IS SOLID//BEING BUILT ON OURLORD AND SAVIOR EVE

HE CREATED: AS MEN WHOSE

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JESUS CHRIST.

AMEN