Hello and welcome to the third season of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies

to help you deepen your faith, build stronger relationships, and do the most with your life in Christ. Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Welcome back. I hope you're doing well, and I'm glad you're here. We finished a three-part series last week. It ended up being a

collection of nine questions, three questions for everyone, three questions for leaders,

and three questions for achievers. I really hope you found that helpful. I'm prayerful that it has helped

you focus in on what matters, and it has fueled your passion to pursue it. And look, I know it

didn't go perfectly. I think it was my first series in over two years, and I did way too much

recapping and reminding in each of the two subsequent episodes

in burn-up space where you probably were just like, hey, get to the point, let's go.

So if I ever get the opportunity to do a series again, I promise it will be tighter than that.

Each episode, minor recap, jump right into new

information. Would that be okay, by the way, if we tried to do that again? Well, be careful

what you agree to. We are actually going to follow up with another series, a completely

different one, starting today. I tried not to.

I have two or three other ideas, some standalone stuff that I wanted to share with you,

but for me, whether it's podcast recording or preaching, I have to share what is burning

inside of me. It is as close as I know how to represent the spirit

moving in my life, and I feel compelled to spend some time talking to you about marriage.

I would say of all of the different topics that are suggested and requested that I get

via email or Facebook Messenger, marriage and the

family is easily at the top of the list. And I am convinced, 100% convinced, that you can boil

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