Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson,

and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that we can employ to help us grow in our

faithfulness to God to reach new heights to excel still more.

Thanks for joining. Let's get started.

All right, so today we're taking a little narrower view than usual.

We're focusing in on marriage.

We want to talk about the marriage secret.

The one thing that just consistently seems to be

in place for marriages that are thriving. And usually, when there is something going wrong in the

marriage relationship, you can pin it down to this one idea. So that's where we're going today.

I'm excited to share it with you. There are actually a few

tips that we will be weaving together, but it will all build to that one marriage secret.

Let me tell you a little bit about me. I'm definitely not a professional in this field in terms of

a doctorate or anything like that. But here are my credentials, as weak as they may be. I've been

married for 21 years. I was nearly 19 years old when I got married. We've been together a long time

summer and I, and it's just been good. We've had ups and downs, just like everybody. We've dealt

with loss, and we've moved a lot, and things have happened. But it just seems like we've always

found a way to stick together, us against the world.

We also are raising four kids, so some of the stress that comes along with a large family, we certainly understand that.

We have two teenagers and also two little ones, and so there it becomes really important that we stick together and work together,

lest the little ones divide and conquer.

I have been preaching full-time for 18 years, maybe a little bit over that.

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