God is working and wants to show you his love today.

And I want to say welcome.

Welcome to Saddleback Church.

Welcome to our online family that is joining us.

We're in part number four of a message series called Better.

Can we say that together?

Better.

Better is better.

In fact, we've been talking about that this whole series that so often

when we start a new year, we have this idealized version of what our lives are going to become.

We set lofty goals. We want to lose all the way. We want to make progress in our career. We want to

have that perfect job, perfect, all of it. And so often that perfection or

that idealized image of what will become leaves us frustrated because we start and we don't make

the kind of progress that we want to make. So we've been saying that better is better. Really what

we mean by that is progress is better than perfection. We can make progress in every area of our life,

and that progress, when you, over time, make progress, it adds up.

So throughout the series, we've been going through different categories.

I want to review a bit if you're just joining us, so you know.

We started in the first week talking about better vision.

And we said, this year we're going to frame the year with

vision, knowing that God has a vision for our lives collectively. God has a vision for you personally.

And then we talked in the second week about habits. And I want you to see this big diagram here

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