Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy this message by Pastor Eric Johnson.

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Hey, happy new year. Welcome to 2021. I pray for a blessing over your home, over your life, and your soul.

I pray that this year is very different than last year. And the title today's message is

looking ahead. Say that with me. Looking ahead. Stay with passion. Ready? One, two, three,

looking ahead. You will need something to write with, either paper,

your phone, or your iPad, or any device. I am a massive fan, a huge advocate for taking notes

for numbers of reasons. One, it helps you to retain information better, and then it helps me

to know that you're actually paying attention that's really important

for me I have a few small exercises we're going to do in this message in this talk apart from taking

note of a few little exercises don't worry don't leave there's no interaction with any other human being

it's you and yourself and God we had a staff, a Christmas staff meeting recently, and on Zoom

call, because we couldn't meet in person. And we normally sit at table at a Christmas staff

meeting and have dinner together. So we're normally talking with a small group of people.

Well, on the Zoom call, we were trying to replicate kind of a similar feel. We're all in our own

homes, and I don't know we had three or four hundred

people on the Zoom call and at part of the Zoom call we did breakout so people will go into

room, breakout room for like three or four people. The amount of people that left the Christmas

staff meeting, the moment that came out of our mouth was startling and it just so I'm just

warning you there isn't an exercise today but it it involved no other human being. So you don't have to turn this off and you're in the safety of your home. So you're going to be just fine. You're going to be just, just fine. And again, if you do take note, please tag me on Instagram for two reasons. One, I love to see what you heard. And I love to see the note that people take. Some of you are good

artist out there, and while I'm talking to draw, and it's amazing, I actually really enjoy it.

So if you do like taking notes, please tag me on Instagram. I would love that, and I try to reply to

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