Millennial Makeovers
Millennial makeovers! Oprah's first show of the New Year was "Millennial Makeovers." Oprah lets people nominate someone they know who has gotten stuck in a certain period of time. There are a lot of people my age that are old hippies. Throughout the process of the television show, they come back, transformed, and it is amazing. Sometimes when you look at these people they don't look like the same folks. You didn't think anyone like that could look so good! Let's be honest - when you've looked one way for a thousand years it's time for a makeover!
Resolutions. At the beginning of every new year people make resolutions. Diet is always one of the big resolutions, especially after the holidays. You've heard the new Jenny Craig commercial: "If Monica can do it, you can, too!" But change and transformation is about a whole lot more. Change and transformation go a lot farther than resolutions that deal with diets, debt, and smoking.
The year 2000 is a serious thing. Think about the time. Deion Sanders, the football star, said something the other day that was incredible and really prophetic. He said that the way we start off this year will determine how the century turns out. Think about that. The decisions you and I make right now about the person we are becoming will affect our children and our grandchildren. Right now, who we are becoming and what we are doing will impact the future.
What a window of spiritual opportunity! Would you agree with me? What a window of opportunity to go beyond the traditional New Year’s makeovers and to allow God to take us to a whole new level, a whole new place.
This month we are going to be talking about mountain climbing. We will be in the ninth chapter of Luke. We're going to go to a place that we in the church have traditionally called the mountain of transfiguration. The mountain of transformation - the mountain of change.

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