Even those who praise God all the time aren't praising him enough because there's no such thing as praising him enough.

Hello, and thanks for being here with us for today's Destin for Victory,

where we feature the preaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard.

Before we kick off today's message, discovering the power of praise,

I want to tell you about a great new resource we'd love to share with you this month. During the final year of his life,

just before being called home to be with the Lord, Pastor Paul Shepard preached an excellent

series on stewardship, one that we've aired right here on Destin for Victory. It was so well

received that we decided to put those messages together in a book called

Becoming an Excellent Steward.

And to share a few words about the book, I'm pleased to welcome in Pastor Paul's daughter

and the executive director here at Destin for Victory, Alicia Greer.

Alicia, welcome.

I know you have some thoughts about this new book, but also about the man who wrote it.

You know, I had the privilege and honor of growing up with Pastor Paul as my dad.

And one of the things that he was really great at as a dad was giving advice. And so I could

always go to him for life advice. He was very wise and he lived his life according to godly principles,

and as a result, he saw so much fruit in his life. So I see this last year of teaching that

he did on stewardship as his advice to us as a spiritual father. And one of the things I love

about books is it gives the opportunity for that

wisdom to be packaged in a way that's timeless. And so this book is a wonderful way to glean

advice from your spiritual father about how to steward every area of your life according to

godly principles. And I believe that as we put these things into practice,

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