Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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This week at the Lindell Church, we had the most amazing series of lessons.

Chuck Durham came in, and he preached six sermons, all related to the family,

how to build stronger marriages, how to create generational faith. There were several thoughts about parenting to raise Christian kids. His thoughts this week and a particular book he suggested are responsible

for the direction we'll be taking in today's podcast, but I cannot recommend strongly enough

that you go and catch those lessons. You can go to the Lindale Church of Christ web page or

Facebook page, or you can just send me an email, Emersonk78.com, and I will

add you to a list where you get all the sermons every week, and I'll make sure you get those links.

All of the lessons were so good, some of them kind of hard to hear. Maybe I got a little taste

of my own medicine this week, But as a husband and a father,

I found them super beneficial. And especially the last night when he talked about parenting,

and afterwards there was all this conversation going on. I felt like we were there for an hour

afterwards, just talking to families about the way they're trying to keep their children

directed towards a self-disciplined life that really learns to be faithful servants to the

Lord. From those conversations, and really Chuck's lesson, there were three words that kept

coming to mind for me, early, often, and less. It's kind of a mantra that

Summer and I have had for our entire parenting lives, a method of approach, a strategy that we

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