It’s the beginning of a new year, and for most people that means creating a series of resolutions about things they will attempt to do in the coming year: losing weight, reading the Bible more and so on. There’s a reason health clubs make as much as 30 to 50 percent or more of their annual income on contracts written in January; that’s when we are firmly convinced this year we will do better.<\/p>\n
I’ve made my share of resolutions. In fact, if I’d lost all the weight I resolved to lose all those Januarys gone by, I’d make a supermodel look chubby. So this year, I thought I’d try something different: reverse resolutions.<\/p>\n
A reverse resolution is a commitment not<\/em> to do something. For instance, instead of resolving to lose 25 pounds this year, I could resolve not to eat a 16-ounce ribeye every Friday night. That kind of reverse resolution is one I could definitely keep and would be beneficial to my bank account, as well.<\/p>\n So here are some of my reverse resolutions for 2013: Feel free to pass along any other reverse resolutions you think I should adopt. Of course, if they are too hard, I may resolve not to read your emails any more.<\/p>\n It’s the beginning of a new year, and for most people that means creating a series of resolutions about things they will attempt to do in the coming year: losing weight, reading the Bible more and so on. There’s a reason health clubs make as much as 30 to 50 percent or more of their … Continue reading “Back Page Pulpit: Resolved: To Make Better Non-Resolutions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
• I resolve not to spend any significant amount of time worrying about or preparing for a zombie apocalypse, though this is certain to disappoint my 16-year-old son and anyone else who enjoys watching “Doomsday Preppers,” “The Walking Dead” or similar shows.
• I resolve not to give any contributions to any politicians this year. It only encourages them.
• I resolve not to watch Honey Boo Boo or any of her relatives on TV.
• I resolve not to wear skinny jeans (as if that were possible).
• I resolve not to suggest we sing worship choruses that were really popular when I was a teenager (as if I could remember that far back).
• I resolve not to launch a multi-site church campus in Alaska. I’ll leave that to Driscoll, Keller and the boys.
• I resolve not to write a best-selling book that causes millions of dollars to flow into my bank account. That might damage my humility, which I’ve always thought was one of my best qualities.<\/p>\n