Sermon: "The Best Thing You Can Do for Yourself" by Randy Roberts 
Part 1 – The Best Thing You Can Do

Prayer: Stew Harty

Pastoral Welcome: Darold Retzer

Child Dedication: Emma Claire Pakkianathan - Randy Roberts

Children’s Feature: Jackie Bishop

Meditation:

Your purpose ... has nothing to do with grandiose goals, lofty achievements, or universal fame. It is the quiet confidence that, even if you never leave your neighborhood, you will have lived fully. – Sybil Stanton

Responsive Reading: (Taken from Proverbs 19, Exodus 9, 2 Timothy 2, and Jeremiah 29, TNIV) Savannah Hodgkin, Joel Bakland

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERMON

We begin a new series of sermons today. Less than four weeks ago, the new year began. Didn’t you dream that 2011 could be your best year on record for you? Yet now, less than a month later, things may not be going as well as you’d wished.

Take heart! God may yet have a great year in mind for you! This sermon series will encourage you to consider the best thing you can do in various facets of your life to make 2011 the best year possible.

I realize that some of the themes I have selected might differ from what you would choose, but I pray that God has something for us all in the weeks ahead. Please keep these coming weeks in your thoughts and prayers.

Here’s an outline of the series.

 The Best Thing You Can Do

January 29       The Best Thing You Can Do for Yourself
February 5      The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend
February 12    The Best Thing You Can Do for Fiancé
February 19    The Best Thing You Can Do for Spouse
February 26    The Best Thing You Can Do for Family
March 5           The Best Thing You Can Do for Others
March 12         The Best Thing You Can Do for Ex-Spouse
March 19         The Best Thing You Can Do for Heart
March 26         The Best Thing You Can Do for God

Join us each week as we open our hearts to God, asking him to guide us in his ways.
May God’s grace sustain and support you in all your ways and through all your days.

Randy Roberts
Senior Pastor

Note: Child dedications and baptisms are in the extras section of the DVD