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everywhere you go with the all new Life Church app available wherever you download your

apps from. You know it's a new year and I'm sure you've got your list of resolutions,

habits and schedules that you've made. But what if I told you there was one habit that

could dramatically change the way you live your life and give you a divine purpose. Well

today our senior pastor Craig Groschell will show you exactly how to do that in a very

special New Year's message we're calling words to live by.

Hey big welcome to all of our Life Churches and our open network churches, our church

online family. I absolutely with all of my heart love this time of the year because there's

so much optimism, so much faith about what is to come. And what I want to do today is I want

to teach a message that I honestly believe has the potential to significantly impact your

life and your year above anything else that I could suggest. Let me give you a little back story.

Every year for years and years I try to add one discipline to my life. It doesn't sound

like a big deal but over a 10 year period that's 10 new disciplines. Reading the Bible all the

way through, praying with Amy consistently journaling and the list could go on and on. I want to

tell you about my most recent discipline that I think has had more impact in my life than

most five disciplines combined. And I want to give you a chance to consider joining me in this

one very simple discipline. I call it words to live by. Before I talk about that I know that

all of you would say and your context and your job and your family it can be really, really

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