Welcome to Season 6 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

Our program continues to be sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John is a good friend and he's helped me and my family in everything

from stock and mutual fund investing to annuities, life insurance, and retirement planning.

I certainly commend him to you if you have needs in any of those areas. You can reach him at

205-326736-3-64. Thank you again for your ongoing encouragement and support. Let's get started.

Hey, welcome to the final episode of 2024. The launch date for today's content is December 30th,

so it seems fitting for me to say, happy holidays. I hope you had a wonderful

Christmas week, and you're excited about the new year, which kicks off in just a couple of days.

As we close in on that new year, I'll keep this as brief as possible, but I just want to say

a couple of things to you. Number one, thank you. Thank you for listening this year, for

sticking with the program, for sharing it

with your friends, and just really for all your support. It's pretty incredible that we've been

doing this for six full years. It is really rare for podcasts to make it pass the first three

months, much less six complete seasons. And I have really wrestled this year with whether or not we should embark

upon season seven. And there are a couple of reasons for that. I've started writing some devotionals

and I have some other projects next year. And eventually, you know, you just have to make a couple of cuts

to make room for other things. But really, for me, what's more important than that is the quality

of the content.

You ever seen one of those TV shows that just goes on too long?

And it's almost like you can tell that the writers

are just phoning it in at this point.

That is not what we wanna do.

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