Yountville Seventh-day Adventist Church

  
Welcome to the Yountville Seventh-day Adventist website

We are happy to see that you have decided to visit our website. We hope that it will be informative and a blessing and give you a sense of who we are as a church family.

Check out the new articles about family and health in Family First and Staying Young. If you enjoy great art take a look at ScripShot a photographic perspective of the world we live in with a Biblical reference.
 
Check us out every Saturday morning.
We meet at 9:30 am for serious Bible study and at 10:45 am for Worship

 

Thoughts from Pastor Dave 

 

One of the traditions associated with New Year’s observances is the making of resolutions, promises to stop or start something in the new year. On the average, about half of American adults make one or more New Year’s resolutions each year, which commonly include weight loss, exercise, quitting smoking, and better money management. Making New Year’s Resolutions was started by early Babylonians. Although this is generally assumed as accurate, no one really knows, but it’s the stuff of great trivial conversation at social gatherings, particularly New Year’s Eve parties. For the Babylonians, the start of the new year was a good time to return borrowed items, such as farming equipment, and so begin the new year with a clean slate. 

 

The Bible does not speak for or against the concept of New Year’s resolutions. Every day is the day the Lord has made, as Psalm 118:24 states, and “we will rejoice and be glad in it.” One can make a resolution or promise to oneself any day of the year, and keeping it or breaking it is in their hands. One thing the Bible does say in Ecclesiastes 5:2-5 is that if one makes promises or vows to God, it shouldn’t be taken lightly.

 

“Do not be rash with your mouth, and let not your heart utter anything hastily before God. For God is in heaven, and you on earth; therefore let your words be few. When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed— Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.”

 

After months and months of tests to develop an electric light-bulb, Thomas Edison was interviewed by a reporter who asked Edison if he felt like a failure and if he thought he should just give up. Edison replied, “Young man, why would I feel like a failure? And why would I ever give up? I now know definitively over 9,000 ways that an electric light bulb will not work. Success is almost in my grasp.” After over 10,000 attempts, Edison successfully invented the light bulb. The point is, don’t quit. If it’s a worthy goal, it’s worth sticking to, even if it means starting over a few times.

 

 

Happy New Year!