Hey, hey, welcome to the church home podcast with Judah Smith. My amazing husband. My name is Chelsea,

and he is about to give you an incredible message. And I know we are going to hear about Jesus and his love for you.

And if there's anything we can do as a church home community, we would love to serve you.

You can come to churchhome.org slash pastor chat, and we would love to have a conversation with you and just meet

you exactly where you are. Enjoy the message. Hey, everybody. It's Judah. I'm so excited to be sharing

these collection of sermons with you on Closer to God. How do you and I get closer to God? One of the most

asked questions around the God topic in the whole

wide world. Hey, it's January 12th when this airs, which means a few things. Did you know that 80%

of New Year's resolutions in the world, or at least in this country, stop by February. I know. I know. It's sad. It's like 8%

of resolutions made in this country actually see themselves through to the whole year. So if it's

January 12th and your determination or resolution or passion or focus is already a little off,

welcome to the party. I know that feeling. I am trying to commit more to stretching and yoga in

2025. And yeah, you know, I'm on a journey and so are you so are you so I hope that you feel

encouraged hey let us know if we can help you in any way here at church home we have a thing

called pastor chat which means you can chat with team members here at church home who want

to encourage you and at the very

least connect you to agents of change and care and love in this life. We love you so, so much.

And this is part two or message two on becoming closer to God.

Or I think we're just calling this series, closer to God.

You want it, I want it.

It seems that everybody wants to be closer to God.

But oftentimes they do not.

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