Objects: A check with your name written on it and some gifts that the children will accept as gifts you received in love.

Happy New Year! Today we start all over with a brand new year! It is really good to know that we have fresh starts. For most people, a new year is almost the same as when God forgives your sins. You don't want to make the same mistakes again, but you begin without any of the bad problems that you collected the year before.

This morning I want to tell you a little bit about the way God feels toward you and me. Do you like to know how other people feel about you? I do, especially when I think that they like me. I am not so sure that I want to hear from the people who don't like me. Well, God likes you. As a matter of fact, he loves you, and I want to tell yo…