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A Life-Saving Station

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsor: Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website: www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com Phone: 205-326-7364 NOTE - Two things below: Passages from Philippians about the Gospel AND The Life-Saving Station "In/Off the Gospel" -- I'd encourage you to make these phrases: 9 References: Phil 1:5,7,12,16, 27; 2:22; 4:3, 15 Life-Saving Station On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a little life-saving station. The building was primitive, and there was just one boat, but the members of t

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Exploring Generational Shifts (Pt.2)

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsor: Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website: www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com Phone: 205-326-7364 12 Thinking Shifts Among Millennials/Gen Z Christians… (The Second Six) by Wilson Adams Each generation brings unique changes and challenges. Sometimes older generations sweep them away with broad brushes to the point they are discouraged from even having an opinion. True, not all opinions are workable, but some are. For starters, no one knows how each generation thinks better than that generation. How

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Exploring Generational Shifts (Pt.1)

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsor: Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website: www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com Phone: 205-326-7364 12 Thinking Shifts Among Millennials/Gen Z Christians… (The First Six) by Wilson Adams Cultural thinking changes aren’t just coming, they’re here. In some ways, pruning-thinking is biblically healthy. It’s okay to ask about differences between God-authority and man-tradition (the thing Jesus confronted). With significant numbers seeking to reignite their faith into greater pursuits of evangelism, their

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Holding the Cross

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Have you ever seen one of those guys carrying a cross down the shoulder of the highway? Or standing holding one at a red light? If so, I have questions for you - lots of them? Primarily, what do you think about that? Would you ever do that? Are you doing things like that in connection with the direct instructions of Jesus? My attitude has changed a lot about people who do things like that. I carried a lot of negativity for a long time. Looking inwardly about that was quite revealing. But now, my attitude is different. But

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Avoiding Self Deception

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Okay, the photo for the episode was found after the episode was recorded. It just made me smile so I added it. We can often be a little more like Pinocchio than we should. But worst of all is when the person we are lying to is ourselves. This can be the hardest habit to break. This episode looks at 5 Passages and a Story from the New Testament about how to identify Self-Deception and how to overcome it. I will provide those below for your own personal study and followup: I Corinthians 3:18-19 - Overestimation of my own Wi

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Communication is Key

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! What is the most important key to a healthy relationship? Specifically, between a man and a woman who profess that they love one another? You might say, "faith." Which is hard to argue with. I address that early in the episode. But even faith, if it cannot be shared well, honestly, and fully, will always be lacking. That's the thing about communication. Getting good at that makes anything and everything possible. And yet, if two people cannot talk, hear, share, or understand, what good is a common belief, even if it is be

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"It's Me Season"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Hey, "IT'S ME SEASON." Okay, actually it is not. But I did see that printed on a sweat shirt recently. What are your thoughts on that? It really struck me as an honest, but also very sad proclamation. Our culture is shifting so quickly and fully to individualistic thinking. It doesn't make me angry to see and hear this. It just makes me sad. God has such a deeper and richer plan for your life. There is an incredibly amount of value, purpose, and JOY in seeing your identity as a product of Christ, and for Christ, and to be

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Hard is Good

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I chose the image: Paradoxes: Hard and Good - Not because it is true, but because of how often we see it as true. There can be this construct that opposes hard and seeks good, and even measures good, in terms of ease. It is very difficult to search my life history and see much correlation between Easy and Good. It is practically impossible to find that in Scripture. God is working for God in people's lives all throughout time. And I mean really, really good things. But in practically all of them, it was hard. People had t

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Simple Saving Faith

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We are saved by faith. the Bible is clear about that. We are saved by our belief. The Gospel of John tells us that - Jesus tells us that - over and over. But we know there has to be something more to it. I mean, the demons believe and shutter. And faith without works is dead. So what is this saving faith? What does it look like and how does it work? Saving faith may not be easy, but it also isn't complicated. In fact, the truth of it and what it feels and looks like may be as simple as a bit of visualization. Today we see

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Five Scariest Minutes

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I want to carefully invite you to a place of thinking through past fears today. I know some can be far too deep or hurtful for us to venture into. But if you are like me, you've got stories of just really scary, sorrowful, unforgettable events that you recall often. How do you feel when you recall them? Is the objective to block the feelings or get your mind off of it as quickly as possible? What if you assigned gratitude to it? What if you connected lessons learned or necessary changes initiated, stemming from that event

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I Can Do with Benjamin Lee

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome to the 4th ever ESM interview. I did one with Hal Elrod several years ago. At Christmas last year I shared one with Kenny Embry. A few weeks ago we brought on Jacob Hudgins. And now... my good friend and fellow podcaster, Benjamin Lee. Ben's drive and faith and laugh just draw people to him. He's an incredible motivator. His openness and honestly about his own journey, struggles, and successes are incredibly motivating. Today we talk about what it means to live intentionally. Along the way, I got to ask him about

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Your Gathered Power

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! My kiddo, Luke, preached a sermon the other day that featured this opening quote: “Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power.” James Allen (As A Man Thinketh) When you replace the word "Crime" with "Sin" and "Criminal" with "Sinful" it really hits home. We each and all make quick, unintended mistakes. But for the most part we bounce back quickly. However

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I'm With You

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome to my personal favorite Bob Goff story. And that's saying something. His life has been incredibly interestingly lived. I linked to his books last week. Today I'll add a link to an episode from 2022 that featured his work in Uganda: Be Secretly Incredible. Part of being incredible is loving people. Not just from a distance through prayer. Not just when you agree with them. Not just when they do what you want them to do. But because of who they are - people made by God and in His likeness. And because of who you are

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Go Be You!

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! God built each of us to align our mind and body. He gave us this beautiful things called a conscience to process His will, and factors of life, to create a consistency between heart and deeds. When we link those up, we are our authentic selves. Your authentic self may not be right, but it's honest. You may grow and change, but you'll be a person of integrity. However, if you have a gap between what you believe and what you do... If you strike a wax person pose in front of people and fail to be who you really are... things

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Jacob Hudgins Interview: House Rules

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! For just the third time in ESM history - it's an interview! It is my pleasure to have Jacob Hudgins on the program today to walk us through the House Rules that he has implemented in his home and has written about for the benefit of others. This will be our fifth and final episode in the House Rules series. And I was thinking this week: who better two pull it all together and wrap it up than the author of the book! Jacob does so great here with key insights and some honest reflections on his own life and family. I hope yo

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Pick Your Apple

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I have made 3 major financial decisions in my life that stand above the rest. One was awful. One was safe. And the last was exciting. To me, these represent the kind of choices that go far beyond portfolios, and certainly have more value than money. Let me walk you through those choices, spanning 25 years of my life. Maybe they will help you with some financial decisions in the new year. I think that would be great. But it is not the purpose. Maybe it will look like a humble brag on my part and you won't like that. I can

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It's Blue Monday!

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today, launch day, is "the most depressing day of the year." That being the case, I feel like a wellness check is needed: so how are you doing? Are you weathering January okay? If you are, I want you to see how much you've overcome to feel that way! And if not, there are real reasons for that which affect a lot of people. You are not alone. But we can make a plan, a great plan. We can do such a few specific things and create results this year that have alluded us in years past. Are you up for that? We first have to look a

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House Rules: Responsibilities and Problems

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Our cover image today is a 10 year old boy deciding whether or not to make his bed. He clearly doesn't want to. And yet, it is his responsibility. What factor will be determine what he does next? Sometimes doing the right thing is hard. And when it comes down to just the action... we may not want to do it at all. But there are a couple of really important reasons he should make that bed. These are the same reasons we should do what is right when it is our responsibility to do so. Continuing with that, sometimes we are res

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Tenacity and Willpower

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Say it with me: Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex! Or aMCC for short. Today we take a little look into the brain, to find a very special part that controls the willpower of the rest. If we can learn how it works, and how to make it stronger, well, there isn't any part of your growth in life that won't be affected and helped! But we have to build on the WHY of personal discipline we started with last week. God expects us to take inventory and responsibility for, every part of the life He has given each of us: body, mind, heart

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I Dare You

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray 2024 is a wonderful adventure in growth and change and increased faith and joy in Christ! Welcome to season 6 of the ESM podcast. It's been an amazing journey thus far and I am looking forward to this season. Today's content - the challenge to balance out four elements of your life: Physical, Mental, Social, Religious - is key to unlocking a better you and a better year. A better you, because this requires discipline from the inside out, not just in one category at a time. And a better year, because

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I Dare You

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray 2024 is a wonderful adventure in growth and change and increased faith and joy in Christ! Welcome to season 6 of the ESM podcast. It's been an amazing journey thus far and I am looking forward to this season. Today's content - the challenge to balance out four elements of your life: Physical, Mental, Social, Religious - is key to unlocking a better you and a better year. A better you, because this requires discipline from the inside out, not just in one category at a time. And a better year, because

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Interview with Kenny: Minimizing Daily Stress

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Merry Christmas! Launch day for this week's episode is December 25th. I pray safety and joy for you and your loved ones. May the Father, Son and Spirit be with you all. About a month ago, Kenny Embry and I had a discussion about stress management. It became an hour long dive into our personal lives and things that have really made a big difference for us. As soon as we were done recording, I started looking for a place to launch this for you. It's certainly less polished and much more raw and personal that the usual weekl

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Fearless Moral Inventory

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! What would you find if you used some personal time excavating the center of your heart, taking a fearless moral inventory, and finding out what drives all you do? This week we look at the power of self-awareness. It is massively valuable. But to be honest, it is much deeper and more needful that I first thought. To me self-awareness was this sense of reading the room, knowing how others see you, and understanding the impact of your conduct. Those are things that grow out of it, but self-awareness is much, more more person

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House Rules: Love and Gossip

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors: Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website: www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com Phone: 205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com Phone: 813-380-8487 Welcome to PART 3 of 6 in our House Rules Series. Here is a link to Jacob's Book, which I highly recommend you read. This week we talk about two crucial rules for life and home: Rule #4 - We Speak in Love Rule #5 - No Gossip Allowed This adds on to the three so far: Rule #1 - Home is a

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Bored and Brilliant

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors: Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website: www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com Phone: 205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com Phone: 813-380-8487 First things first, here is a link to Mannish Zomorodi's Ted Talk (note - at least one curse word in the presentation) Also, she wrote a book by the same title: Bored and Brilliant What do you think about when you hear the word BORED? Is that a bad thing? For some of us, it feels like a

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