Picture yourself sitting across the kitchen table from Chuck Swindall. Just the two of you. No formal sermon, no religious performance. Just an honest conversation about the life you've been living and the person you want to become in

2026. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck gets personal. He challenges us to evaluate our thought

life, our checkbook, our daily schedule, and the way we touch the lives of those around us.

Chuck's not interested in our New Year's resolutions. He wants something deeper,

intentional choices that could transform us into someone who actually resembles Christ.

This is an unusual Sunday of the year.

Not only is it the final Sunday of the year, it's tucked in between two very well-known

and well-celebrated holidays.

Seems a good time to do some reflecting and, of course, as a result, some renewing of

things in our lives.

To guide us, we will have several scriptures that will be a sort of a basis of what we

want to talk about.

Let's begin with the words of James in chapter

four. If you brought a Bible with you, and by the way, always remember that, form the habit

to always bring a Bible so you'll have a reference point along the way.

James, chapter 4, when you locate that, turn to the fourth chapter of a little letter

Paul wrote called Philippians. Philippians. Philippians.

Philippians chapter 4 will read after

we read the James 4 section.

I'll begin reading at verse 13 of James 4.

Come now, you who say today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city

and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit. Yet, you do not know what your

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