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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Thank you so much for listening in today. Let's get started.

Good morning and welcome back. I'm excited today.

I think I have some really cool stuff to share with you from the number one golfer in the world, Scotty Sheffler.

The Open Championship, the British Open in Northern Ireland, I think, went on last week.

And early in that week, he was interviewed.

Some of the things he had to say are just incredible. I know they

will be motivational for you and give you some guidance, particularly how to share faith and

conviction, even if you're not using the name of Jesus. So I'll get into that in a minute because

professing the name of Jesus is also amazing, but sometimes it's more than just dropping

his name here or there, especially if other people are watching. Here's a little setting,

by the way, that you don't need. It's Saturday, a little over a week before release. It's early

afternoon. I'm up here at the office, dressed down, sacred selections, t-shirt, bird dog shorts,

and I just felt very motivated to record today i'm actually watching the open championship real time on a little screen here and it's

saturday afternoon scotty sheffler is winning the thing that's nothing unusual he's the best golfer in

the world he has three major championships two two master's wins along the way, and he's starting to look like he might run away with the British Open. He is our favorite golfer around here. He's from the DFW area. Luke got to meet him a few years ago, play some basketball with him. Actually, the fellowship of Christian athletes

related to UT Tyler, where Luke's golfing invited some freshmen to go spend the weekend

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