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.

All right, so here we are at the end of season one of the Excel Stillmore podcast. We started back on January the 24th of this year,

and we're wrapping it up today on October 31st.

If the Lord is willing, we have a plan to come back with season two, which is tentatively planned to launch on Monday, January the 6th.

And look, I know I've said it before,

but thank you so much for going on this journey with me.

I've made tons of new friends, grown a lot,

and hopefully you have to.

Okay, so before we dig into today's topic,

I need to remind you of the very first episode. We set this thing on go with three words,

just get better. Our objective this year has never been some specific goal. It's never been some perfected self or anything like that. It's just been about

growing. The Bible says to grow in the grace of Jesus and in the knowledge of Jesus. First

Thessalonian says no matter how much love you have or how well you've been walking, excel still more.

We're not looking behind, like we're told in Philippians 3 at the way things were. We're looking

forward. We're pressing on. We're striving to improve. I hope that you've found all of the

episodes useful in that endeavor. My prayer as we get to the end of the

month of October is that you are stronger than you were. You are growing. Your life is changing.

It's not about evolving it to some point and it being finished. That's not the way this works.

But I'm afraid that for a period of years, some Christians have just been plugging along,

fighting the battles, hoping that they can hang in there. When you ask them, hey, what does growth

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