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.

Today's episode is sponsored by Statewide Mortgage.

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with a variety of home mortgage needs. You can reach him today at 813-380-8487. Thank you so much for

listening in today. Let's get started. Welcome back. I hope your weekend was outstanding, and you have an optimistic view going

into the work week. I know that there are a lot of decisions that you will make, daily decisions,

some of which are explicitly governed by the will of God, as we'll talk about for a bit today,

but many of which are not. We can

categorize them as gray area decisions or conscience or conviction decisions, where

scripture doesn't explicitly tell you do this or don't do that, where the pattern isn't

narrowing you down to any particular thing. There are choices you will have to make.

On your own, some really big ones that shape the rest of the year and some really little ones

that just shape the next few minutes. But likely no one is coming to tell you that that is against

the will of God or dangerous. It will be up to you. But I am increasingly convinced that it is those

decisions, daily, simple choices, things we listen to or watch and read, people we hang out with

and places that we go and where we allow our mind to stay. Things that are not necessarily black and white end up

coloring in the picture of the tone of your life, the shape and direction, and all those kinds of

things. And that's where we're headed today. The title of the episode is Wisdom with Liberties.

We'll be talking about categorical decisions where you have

some sense of liberty. Some people may not make the same decision you would make. Some may even have

a conviction to where they cannot make that decision based on their conscience. But because it absolutely

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