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813-380-8487. Thank you so much for listening today. Let's get started. Hey, welcome today to a brand-new year, 2024. Happy New Year's to you. Welcome also to season

six of the Excel Stillmore podcast. That may not mean a whole lot to you, but to me, it's just

wild. I remember in my closet, January 2019, I thought I'll record an episode, maybe my wife and a couple of buddies will check it out,

maybe I can do it for a few months. But God most certainly had different plans. We've now completed

five full years of episodes. I've met the coolest people in the world. And now here we are,

2024, starting the year together. I hope that today's content and all of what we have planned for

this year will continue to be an encouragement to you, but also challenging in a way that allows

for true and lasting transformation. And I will just say this to you right up front. I believe

the ideas that we're going to talk about today in this next 20 minutes can help you create an incredible

trajectory for this year and probably completely change your life. I believe in all of this so

strongly that I'm presenting the content in a few different ways. First of all, the last day of

23, I preached a sermon at the Lindale Church, probably titled The Four Square Christian. It is very similar

to the content you'll hear today, except it's about twice the length, and all of that extra time

is used studying the scripture. And there are some visuals, some slides like the Purina brand

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