1. Letter to Jewish Exiles in Babylon (598 BC)

2. Abandoned by God?

3. Can we really change in 2010? Don’t despair ! There is hope (v11).

4. God’s gracious plan – Christ (33:15) “...I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah (31:31)...For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more (31:34).....I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people (31:33)

5. Can we really change in 2010? Don’t despair ! There is hope (v11) You are the hope of the city (v 7)

6. Seek the Shalom of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Jeremiah 29:7

7. “Mission is putting love where love is not.” St John of the cross

8. H O P E

9. “Seek the shalom of the city to which I have carried you into exile.” Jeremiah 29:7

12. There is inbuilt into human beings a dangerous taste for unreality. Idols promise much but deliver little. Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury Jim Wallis

13. Can we really change in 2010? Don’t despair ! There is hope (v11) You are the hope of the city (v 7) Seeking God’s transformation ( v12-13)

14. Those who cling to worthless idols Forfeit the grace that could be theirs Jonah 2:7-8

15. 2009 – the challenge “I believe that God is calling His church here in Billericay to step forward and be counted, to go for a substantial increase in personal commitment and in service built on the foundation of our relationship with Jesus. (1) A challenge to self-examination and repentance (2) A challenge to put service about self

16. 2010 – pastoral strategy (1)Helping you to find freedom in Christ. (2)Helping you to rediscover your first love. (3)Helping you to be a whole life disciple. Shalom in the church...Shalom in the city.