Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I'm your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm thrilled to introduce once again a great sponsor for the program, Tyler Kane, a close friend and fellow believer. He serves as the senior loan officer at statewide mortgage, based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Statewide mortgage is a company founded by a brother in Christ.

Tyler brings 20 years of expertise to the table, making him a trusted advisor for numerous families navigating the complexities of the mortgage industry.

Whether you're a first-time homebuyer, considering refinancing,

or dreaming about future homeownership goals, Tyler and his team stand ready to assist you

every step of the way. For more information, you can find a link to their website in our show

notes or feel free to reach out directly to Tyler at 813-380-8487. And on his behalf and mine, thanks for listening.

Hey, welcome. So today we've got this great Old Testament story that we want to connect to Jesus.

But before we do that, give me a couple of minutes to share with you a project or two that I've

been working on where I could really use your help. The bigger one I'll give you more details on in a month or two.

I'm writing a book, a New Testament devotional that will go along with daily Bible reading.

If everything goes well, the book will be completed and available by December, and we hope to

start a new five-day-a-week

podcast in January that elaborates on that material as you walk through your New Testament.

This is my first time to say anything public about it, and I'm pretty early in the writing,

so here we are on the hook, and that makes it feel even a little more real and gets me

pretty excited about it. But in the process of preparing for that launch, I've started working with Amazon KDP on

uploading covers and internal content and getting it available through your regular Amazon.com.

And I really needed to jump right in and start working on that.

So we did a redesign of the Excel Stillmore

three-month journal, and it is now available at Amazon.com. They have mailed me the proofs of the

soft cover, which I'm currently using for journaling this quarter, and also a new red-covered

...