1. Finishing Matthew Bates’s wonderful book The Birth of the Trinity. I’m a third of the way through at the moment, and it’s theologically creative, brightly written, devotionally rich and a delight to read.
2. The new season of The Traitors. Is Harriet the secret traitor? Will the others work with her or against her? So intriguing.
3. Freya India’s book Girls: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything, due out in February.
4. 21 days of prayer at King’s Church London, which starts today. I will also be heading to Jubilee Church London for one of their evenings, so that’s a mighty double bill.
5. Speaking at the Advance Global conference in South Africa in March. This will be my third Advance conference, and the others have been outstanding, so I’m hugely looking forward to this.
6. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, due out in July. Yes, I have all sorts of concerns about it (and the trailer did not exactly alleviate them). But every Nolan film I’ve seen has been excellent, so I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt.
7. Reading Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History. My copy has just arrived and I started it this morning.
8. Francis Spufford’s new novel, Nonesuch, which is due out in March.
9. The annual fellows retreat for the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, in New York City in April. I learn so much, and laugh so much, in these gatherings; I’m particularly excited about this one because I missed the last one.
10. The second season of The Night Manager. The first was one of the best three single season TV shows I’ve ever seen (along with Chernobyl and The Honourable Woman), and while I don’t expect the second to be at that level, I’m still expecting to love it.
11. Preaching through 1 Corinthians for the first time since 2007.
12. Editing and contributing towards a new book for Newday, called How To Be Human. It is basically a biblical anthropology for teenagers based on Genesis 1-3, and we have twelve great writers and chapters lined up.
13. The third volume of Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin. I just finished the first, and it was as much a history of the world as it was a biography. If the same is true of the third then it will be brilliant.
14. July’s THINK conference with Peter Williams on Luke. I honestly can’t think of anyone I’d rather have teach on this book than Peter.
15. Tehran season 3. Rachel and I watched season 1 in December, and it was the first show we’ve seen in ages that had us trying to find excuses to keep watching it.
16. Carl Trueman’s The Desecration of Man, due out in April.
17. The World Cup this summer. Obviously.
18. Newday. Obviously.
19. The release of my new book, Happiness: What It Is, Where To Find It, And How To Make It Last Forever, in July/August. Clearly I would say this, but I’m really hoping it will help a lot of people.
20. A family holiday with the cousins in August.
21. Newfrontiers Global in Cyprus in October, which regular readers will know is always a highlight.
22. Visiting brothers and sisters in India in November.
23. Getting into the fourth and final volume of Christopher Ash’s Psalms: A Christ-Centred Commentary. Will Psalms 101-150 have Christ on every page? What a cliffhanger.
24. Our King’s Church leadership team week away, when we plan, pray and talk about the year ahead (and play the occasional game of water volleyball).
25. My oldest son turning eighteen. Yikes.
26. Christmas. Obviously.

Happy New Year!