Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Welcome back. Our title today is $7 billion, and I promise to give that a little context as we move

forward. I want to say a bit about the content of the Excel

Stillmore episodes before we jump into that. By design, I have tried to make these very non-preachy,

non-sermonish, not so much what you would hear at a worship service, but what you might hear in

regular conversation. In worship services, everything centers around the scripture, and then we

add in some ideas when we can. But I wanted something on the side, where we can just talk about

different ideas or examples, and then put God's word in next to it.

I'll say this. If you want more of the preachy stuff, you can always subscribe to the Lendale Church

of Christ podcast, which is just twice a week. It kicks out the sermons from Sunday, and you can

check out all the Bible study there.

I'd love for you to do that. However, every once in a while, I just feel like recording an

Excel Stillmore episode that centers on Jesus. I think that sometimes in this journey we can

forget that all of the goals that we set

and the planning and the journaling and all of the practical tips and strategies.

That's all helpful information, I hope.

But none of this is possible without the love of Jesus.

Everything that works for me, every day, only works because of him. So I just

want to talk about his influence in my life today. And to do that, we're going to talk about

$7 billion. Now you might think, okay, Chris, you set me up for a sermon, and now you're talking about something

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