So we're starting a new series, a new journey together, and I'm excited because it's really

a few week series that we'll do together, but it's the long arc of the year that God

is thinking about today.

And what God's thinking about today is more than just a New Year's resolution for you.

And if you're into New Year's resolutions, I don't want to, you know, reign on your

parade.

You just go to town on that.

That's amazing.

I think every new beginning, you know, comes with that new optimism, and if you're off

on a new diet or a new workout plan or, you know, getting a new boyfriend or whatever

it is that you're working on this year, that is incredible.

But what I want us to think about is a long-term arc of becoming the people that God wants

us to become.

What would it look like if you and I could imagine today what God sees for our lives?

If we could see a picture of what God sees for our lives and we could start on the journey

towards something greater than what we have experienced in the past, some one better than

the person that we have lived with in the past.

And I think under this idea of habit, we have the potential for God to lead us a long,

long way in life.

I don't know how that series is hit you already when you knew we were going to talk about

habit.

They're good habits and bad habits, but the thing is we're all a product of the choices

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