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The new year brings fresh goals—and familiar frustrations. We start strong, but somewhere along the way, our best intentions give way to excuses. In Paper Walls, we’ll uncover how the excuses we make quietly hold us back, and how tearing them down can lead to real change. There’s a fine line between a reason and an excuse. It’s time to abandon the excuses.

When God made the world, his Spirit hovered over the chaos of of the creation. Even today, when we’re struggling through the chaos, destruction, and depression of life, God is hovering over us, creating something new and wonderful.

As we look back over 2025, there may be 101 things we’d like to forget, but some things are important for us to remember. The Israelites had decades of setbacks and obstacles they wanted to forget. But when God stopped the waters of the Jordan River for them to cross, Joshua had them collect stones and create a monument to remember God’s faithfulness.

As we enter 2026, we paused and reflected on the memories from the past year that we want to hold on to moving forward, and built our own monument to God’s goodness to us in the past, to build momentum of our faith in the future.