Welcome to Season 7 of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your faith and help you

strengthen your relationships.

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financial planning needs. You can call him today at 205-326-736-3-64. Thank you so much for listening in today. Let's get

started. Welcome. I'm so thankful you're here today. Thank you for giving me a few minutes of your time.

I want to talk to you about a topic today that also came out in sermon form. I preached it recently at the Lendell Church,

but it's one of those things that needs to be, at least in my opinion, expressed in a couple of different ways.

When you're preaching, that's worship. Everything is

scripture intensive and then application grows out of that. But in this short podcast, I get to

kind of take a different route with you, just kind of articulated in a different way and look at

some different applications. So we're going to talk about the big three. Now before we get into

what I mean by that, have you ever heard

that term before? So far as I can remember, it's a sports-related term that was popularized in the

NBA when a basketball team had three bigger-than-life amazing players. It gained popularity

back in the days of the San Antonio Spurs. They had a team of 11 or 12 different players. It gained popularity back in the days of the San Antonio Spurs. They had a team of

11 or 12 different players. All of them mattered. They all participated, and you needed at

least five on the court just to have a game. But there were three men, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker,

and Manu Genoobli, who were stronger and more important than the rest.

From there, a lot of teams really chased that.

The Celtics had Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, but where it really became a thing is when the Miami Heat got LeBron James,

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