Hello, welcome back for Season 2 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.

Okay, so today our focus is on the family, or more specifically on your family. How can your family become more

Christ-centered? How can you build stronger, more trustworthy relationships? And if there have

been issues in the past, if there is stress and strain, how do we rebuild all of that in your family?

That is the focus of today's podcast.

And I know that we could talk about any number of things.

There are a lot of factors that go into a home life.

But in the end, I just want to share with you one.

I call it the family secret.

I think it is the most important element of every single family,

and when you get this, if you will buy into this with me, the results will come. When I reveal it to you, you might be thinking,

that's not a secret, but I don't know. It seems like it stays hidden. When people talk about what

the family needs and long lists are made, this is not mentioned very often, and yet I think it should be number one on the list.

Now, before I reveal that to you, let me just say that episodes on the family are not easy.

We do them occasionally, but I actually find this quite challenging because every family is different. Your family does not look like mine.

It doesn't have the same history, the same construct. They just don't look the same. And of course,

if you zero in on each member of your family, each one of them is unique, with a unique set of character traits,

different from you, different from one another, and certainly different than my family.

However, when you pull the zoom back just a little bit, you find that there are many ways in which

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