Episode 20: New Goals, Fresh Grace, Same Us

The Jess Connolly Podcast

Jess Connolly

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We love the New Year and love goal setting, but we love the gospel and grace more. So we’ve got to let the Good News of Jesus be the banner over any new year and we can’t keep pretending that a self-help equation of striving will keep us from needing Jesus. It’s a new year, there’s fresh grace, and we can even set new goals - but let’s not pretend we need to be or can be completely different people to step into what God has for us in 2024.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader,
0:07.2	and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.
0:14.7	This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply
0:23.6	spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working,
0:30.6	or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you
0:39.0	and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. Some of us are still processing in 2023, and we're not
0:48.3	quite ready to take the ground and run fast and furious into 2024. Some of us are raring to go, eager to see if we can finally
0:57.4	be the versions of ourselves we always wanted to be. Some of us are exhausted already and were
1:04.7	over the New Year, New Year propaganda that continually leaves us feeling like we have to reinvent ourselves.
1:12.6	I love the new year and I love goal setting, but I love the gospel and grace more.
1:18.6	So we've got to let the good news of Jesus be the banner over any new year,
1:23.5	and we can't keep pretending that a self-help equation of striving will keep us from needing
1:30.8	Jesus. It's a new year. There's fresh grace and we can even set new goals, but let's not pretend
1:38.2	we need to be or can be completely different people to step into what God has for us in this year. During this episode,
1:47.1	I'm joined by my best friend and husband Nick, and we're going to share some honest updates about
1:51.7	what we've been going through, how we're starting this year, and how we're moving forward to
1:56.7	see growth in our lives as we walk with Jesus. We're so glad you're here. Let's go.
2:05.9	Nick Connolly, welcome back to the podcast. Hi. So good to be here. We're going to start this
2:12.5	episode off. And I want to give you guys a picture. When we usually record the podcast, it's
2:16.4	superficial, we're in our blue chairs. There's like, all. And I want to give you guys a picture. When we usually record the podcast, it's super official.
2:19.2	We're in our blue chairs.
2:22.9	There's like all kinds of people here.
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