Goals are made because we treasure a particular outcome. Goals can be about finances, health,

business, creating, writing, you name it. But today, we're going to look at one goal that Paul

in the Bible had, the goal that treasured Christ above all things.

Welcome to the Shepro Faithful Podcast, episode number 108, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Happy New Year, everyone. Thank you so much for choosing to listen to the Shepu's Faithful podcast.

This is the podcast about proving faithful with the gospel of Jesus Christ and how it impacts our daily living.

We get one life and as Christians, we have the mercy of God through Christ to live for his glory.

So welcome.

My name is Lauren and we are a few days into 2019, and it is time for the annual New Year's

episode where we talk about resolutions or goals or New Year, New Year, New You, myths, you know,

the classic New Year's topics.

You can actually go back.

I'll list them. I'll list them.

I'll list them on the show notes, my past January 1st-ish episodes. Because there's something about the calendar switching years that makes us question our whole lives. Or maybe it's just

all that cheese we ate over the holidays. Anybody? Eat a lot of cheese over Christmas?

I did.

Actually, I saw this meme that said,

my 2019 New Year's resolution is to finish all my craft projects from 2018 that I should have done in 2017

after I started them in 2016, after buying all the supplies for them in 2015 with the patterns I found in

2014. That's totally me. Did you know that I used to make things crafty and had went to like

craft fairs and stuff? But that was me. What would happen is I would spend all this money and not make any

back or finish the crafts. And I finally purged my

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