Hello and welcome to the third season of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies

to help you deepen your faith, build stronger relationships, and do the most with your life in Christ.

Thank you for joining.

Let's get started.

Welcome back to the podcast.

You know how thankful I am that you're here.

Today's title will probably make everyone think

of the same person. You just can't hear the words death, burial, and resurrection without thinking

about Jesus and the change that he undertook in the first century that changed everything for everyone.

And I do want you thinking about Jesus today in a little while, and actually yourself.

I feel very confident in saying to you that the idea of dying to one life, having a significant

transition moment, and being reborn to something new, should have profound impact in the

life you're living, in your baptism, of course, but maybe in some other ways as well.

But before we get into two things that I genuinely love talking about, Jesus and baptism,

I want to first talk to you about something else that I love a lot. Marriage. Specifically, a marriage that took place

this year on January the 3rd. I've probably mentioned it to you already, but that was the day that

my daughter, my oldest child, got married. Hannah was 19, Braden was 20, they were about to make this life-changing

decision, and we were just praying fervently that they understood the importance of the

decision they were making. In truth, of course, Summer and I did not have a lot of room to complain

about their age as I was 18 and

she was 19 when we got married. But still, and maybe you know this, nothing prepares you for

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