Welcome to Season 5 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I'm still your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

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

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

at 205-326-7364. Thank you again for your ongoing encouragement and support. Let's get started.

Welcome today and thanks for listening in. I know I say pretty much every week that I'm really excited

to share something with you, but today it almost feels like it's on another level,

mainly because it's just super fresh. Like I watched a little video this morning that a friend

sent to me, and it started me down this track of several others, and then I started looking

at these two Bible characters in the book of Genesis and the way their stories compare,

and I think I've just hit

this point of giddiness. Part of it is just getting to learn something new and anticipation

for how I will use it. And another part of it is knowing 100% for sure that this will become a

sermon soon. But in this exact moment, it's you, getting to share this with you.

So just like last week, I need to start by giving a little bit of credit.

Remember, my daughter Hannah sent me a TED talk on humble, hungry, and smart,

and it turned out to be practically life-changing.

If you have not either heard last week's episode or gone to the show notes and watched

the TED Talk, please be sure and do that. I think you're probably like me or you wouldn't be

listening to this program, but I love learning new things and trying new things. And especially when

they come about unexpectedly like the text she sent me last week or the Facebook message that I got

this week. Tim and Michelle Stevens are great friends. We've known them for a handful of years,

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