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🗓️ 5 January 2025
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Just as the apostle Paul wrote to the Jesus followers in Ephesus, you were made for something more than yourself. You are God’s workmanship, and you’ve got something to offer God’s Kingdom.
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0:00.0 | So as I remind you every single year at this time, this is the year where we were all a little bit |
0:04.7 | focused on. It should be focused on self-improvement, where we're confronted with where we are |
0:09.4 | and where we aren't and where we plan to be by this time this year, as we started a new year, |
0:14.4 | because last year we set some goals and set some resolutions and we were committed for about |
0:18.1 | three days or three weeks or three months. But anyway, so here we are |
0:21.6 | thinking about some of those same little things and that's good. This is the time of year where we're |
0:25.4 | kind of confronted with where we are and where we aren't with our goals, what we need to start |
0:29.9 | and stop, what we need to do more of and less of, what we need to eat more of and eat less |
0:34.0 | of. It's the season where we ask, and again, this is a good thing. I'm not complaining. |
0:40.0 | This is the season where we ask, what should I do about me? And how can I make myself better? |
0:45.0 | How can I make myself stronger? How can I make myself healthier? How can I make my relationships |
0:48.9 | better? How can I make myself smarter, wealthier? How do I make myself more successfuler? How do I make myself less lonely? |
0:57.1 | How do I make my relationships richer? And you should address all of those things, whatever those |
1:03.3 | might be. You should get that degree. You should break that habit. You should get out of debt. |
1:07.8 | You should get out of that relationship. You should go ahead and buy a ring and propose and, you know, quit messing around. |
1:13.5 | So this is the year to do all of those things. |
1:17.0 | Less work, maybe more family, or maybe more work, and a little less Netflix. |
1:21.6 | Okay, you got to figure that out. |
1:23.3 | But as you think about this year, you should embrace all of those things and engage all |
1:27.1 | of those things. |
1:27.6 | And this is not a religious thing. This is just a human thing. |
1:30.6 | And this is that time of year where we're thinking about those things. |
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