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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listening in today. Let's get started. Welcome back to the ExcelStomor podcast. It is always a pleasure

for me to get to share some things with you, especially when we're housing everything in the

Word of God like we're going to today. A little background on where I am. It is Saturday afternoon,

just two days before the episode launches, which is pretty unusual, actually,

but I've had a really busy week and been working on different things. So I came up here

with a dual purpose. I needed to record an episode for you, but also tomorrow in our Bible

class, we're continuing a series called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. I'm pretty sure

I've mentioned it to you a few times.

It's been one of the best classes in recent memory.

Lots of open discussion.

Lots of Matthew chapter 6 study.

We've walked through different things that cause us anxiety and concern.

Some things that have really come to the surface, and I think I've mentioned it to you,

is when things initially happen,

like right away, when you get hit with something, you may fall over. It may knock you for a loop.

It may take a while to adjust. Don't judge yourself too harshly when you're hit with information

that is troubling or when you don't know what to do. But soon after that, some things need to

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