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All the way back in the Bible story is the story of people who are seduced by a shortcut.

And I think magic is basically shortcuts. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang. The Good Faith podcast is a production of redeeming Babel, and it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world. And here at Good Faith, we're going through a series in this month about how do we

renavigate our way through the world, perhaps by making some changes, by hitting reset.

Our approach is to really examine the reset buttons that may get neglected.

We are often filled with desire in this month to hit reset on the obvious buttons.

And if Courtney's statistics, this would be eating better, losing weight, exercising more,

and so forth. Those are all good things,

but our series is trying to call attention to perhaps areas of our life that actually need

the reset, but don't get a lot of attention. And for one reason why sometimes areas in our life

or behaviors that need to get reset don't't get the attention, is simply because we lack

the information that we need to motivate us that, hey, change is needed.

A classic example of this would be smoking for decades.

We thought there's no need to change our smoking habits until finally enough medical research

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