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House Rules: Respect and Truth

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 2 of 6 in our House Rules Series. Here is a link to Jacob's Book, which I highly recommend you read. In part one we talked about why the home is so important and Rule #1: Home is a Safe Place. Today we get into the Mutual Respect that must exist in the home as well as th

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I'm Choosing Gratitude

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 Happy Thanksgiving Week! I hope things go well for you with family and friends. I pray your people, and people who will become your people, are gathered with you around a table this week, and often. I wanted to dig in on House Rules (pt2 of 6) and I do toss in some ideas on the front en

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A Slow Fade

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We want things fast and want them to happen on a big time scale. We want total transformation, massive amazing change, and big payouts. All of that is in reach, but the work involved to get there is rarely as instant, sizable or flashy. It turns out, being wise small is the way to big things. Something you do every day for a year will begin to completely change your life. These are awesomely powerful ideas for change. But the devil knows about them as well. He doesn't want you making a slow and steady build. Though he kno

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House Rules: Intro and Safety

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I really hope you enjoy this series! Please let me know what you think. Feel free to share your own ideas, or just express how valuable you think this series might be. Your feedback will determine how quickly we get all 6 fit in! Please remember - application will be focused on the home, but not limited to it. At it's core, these are 10 life rules for you, for me, for each of us. Carrying these qualities into relationships is whole lot easier than trying to find them once the dynamics are established. Either way, let's li

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"Opened Her Eyes"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I am so stoked to share this with you today. Bible connection are on my favorite things list. Special thanks to Michelle Stevens for sending me a short clip from Myron Golden. I checked out a bunch of his stuff and found two Genesis stories that connect in an interesting way. Both of them relate in this way: count your blessings and don't miss them in pursuit of what you don't have, in search of what you lack. Satan works hard and well in the powerful gaps of life. He draws our attention to what is missing and makes them

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A Team Sport

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Okay, I'm calling this my favorite thing I've learned in 2023. This simple outlook on relationships and three step, easily repeatable process... I love it. And I re-recorded this episode a week later just to share my testimonials! I gave a quick early shout out to Jacob Hudgins for his book House Rules. I highly recommend it. So I've added the link here. Speaking of books. We still have ESM 3 Month Journals available for those who would like to venture into the world of daily reading, note taking, planning and prayer. You

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"Who Am I?"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The question of the episode is you asking yourself: "Who Am I?" - I encourage you to spend a little time on that this week. Find an answer that sits in the center of everything else about you and drives it all. Below I have included the lyrics for "To Not Worship You" by Mercy Me. As you listen to them today or explore below, please note the progression. It starts with self doubt and confusion and fear. Then God is introduced as the power and the answer. In the middle of the song there are questions that show some self do

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Your "No" Line (Pt. 2)

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Where do you draw the line when it comes to sinful behavior? Is it your goal to do everything everyone else gets to do so long as you don't take that last step? Sometimes we strive for this in a very weird form of American Christianity. We want almost all of what our culture has to offer, with just a few things off limits. Sometimes this is how we raise our kids - to get all the fun stuff, the good stuff, the acceptable stuff that everyone else gets, but go to church on Sunday and don't sleep around. I think we can do bet

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Your "No" Line (Pt. 1)

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We live in a "yes" world. There is so much to do, and as mostly middle class Americans, we are in a position to say yes to so many things. And for the most part, we seem to try to. After all, we don't want to miss out! No, I don't mean sinful things. But sometimes it feels like we are trying to indulge in and experience pretty much everything else. I wonder if a first century Christian could even fathom a life like that. I doubt most of them would be interested in it at all. They were very clear on their identity and it s

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Wildly Important Goals

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Excel Still More Journal Okay, my new friend Rich Howe, from Richmond TX, has turned me on to a great new book. It is designed for business and company leaders, but it includes timeless principles. I see application for the individual, the family, the church, and business. All that is required of you going in is an Excel Still More mentality. You just have to desire to see better. And you have to be open to a better way of getting there. The proven wisd

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Resolving Christian Conflict

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Read this! 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is comme

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Five Life Choices

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! You gotta love Nick Saban. He says it like it is and asks you what you are gonna do about it! This straight talk can make us uncomfortable but it can also call us to needed change. Today, we look at a quote from him, one he'd actually recently heard from and NFL coach and is using with his guys. I hope you will find it useful as well. Note - I mentioned the passing of my friend, Tony Mauck. If you can take a moment to pray for his wife and kids, and the Decker Prairie church where he worked, I know it would mean a lot to

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Live To 100

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Question: Do you want to live to be 100? I feel like if you and I were chatting you might not give a resounding yes. We've seen a lot of disease and decay and death, and the idea of being here then might invoke a picture of sorrow and pain. But did you know there are people in their 90's and older still living rewarding and enjoyable lives? As you'll hear today, there are some great stories from Japan. But even here in Lindale, TX, there are several in their 90's still drawing joy out of active, service filled lives. Here

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"Us" over "Me"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The ESM Podcast has largely been built for individual application and growth. For one thing, that's a whole lot easier to talk about and accomplish in comparison to collective behavior. You can change you. But changing others... that's a whole lot tougher. Changing the direction of an entire family, church, or culture... that seems impossible. But Scripture challenges us over and over again to think more societally. Even the story of Nehemiah was not about a guy who rebuilt his life. It was about a guy who left his life t

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52 or 90?

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sadly, I was in my mid-20's before I first learned about the story of Nehemiah. It was taught to me beforehand, and I REALLY could have used it in may teenage years, but it wasn't until I was in full time ministry work that this story took root in my heart. It is a story of passion, hope, hard work, belief in God, courage, discipline, and total life change. It warns us of what can happen if we fail to start doing what matters. An entire lifetime can pass stuck in a place of fear and doubt. But with resolve, everything can

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Seven Social Sins

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Seven Social Sins demands that we match up social responsibility with internal character development. It is worth the effort! To help you follow along today, let me include all FOUR of the lists we will feature today: Seven Things God Hates: Pride, Lying, Murder, Wicked Plans, Rushing to Evil, Lying about Others, Creating Strife Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth Seven Social Sins: 1) Politics without Principle 2) Wealth without Work Ethic 3) Pleasure without Conscience 4) Knowledge withou

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"...Widen The Plate"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! As our youth prepare to head back to school, let's talk a bit about standards and rules that they will face. If you are a student, are you the kind of person that puts your best effort into excelling under rules, or do they no apply to you? Should they be changed to accommodate you? Let's talk about what happens when try to widen the plate. Speaking of plates, this is a baseball episode! Nolan Ryan is in this thing. I love baseball. It is a game of set rules. People who work them, and grow to follow them well, excel. Peop

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"Weight Doesn't Matter"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Alert - This is not an episode about weight, diet or exercise! Instead this is a snippet of a quote from a powerful illustration given by a professor to his students. The weight in question was that of a glass of water he was holding. His question: "how heavy is this glass of water?" The answer is surprise and needful! The imagery of that presentation, mixed with a few others I'd like to make concerning both soda and lots of water... are designed to help you deal with three really, really heavy things: Harsh Life Situatio

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Just "Let Him"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! So today's title is a bit misleading. At least, we've got some things to cover before we get there. Below I have posted a poem titled "Let Them." It's about letting people go when they don't want to stay. This is extremely difficult for me, so this poem is helpful. But it does require some Gospel balance. We'll talk about that. Also, there are two other categories that demand some attention. 1) "Let Them" with reference to the people who do want to be near you and help you. Some of us find that even more difficult than th

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The Healthy Tension

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Tension is: Often Challenging and Difficult Outside Comfort Zone or Settled Law Demanding Humility and Openness to Learn Carries Benefit in the Wrestling and Working Required Presents a Choice: 1) ignore. 2) Reject. 3) Give in. 4) Study. Challenges you to seek Balance when it is Easier to Fall to one side. Unhealthy Tension is: Always seeking to get out of the conflict. Anxious or Angry until you do. Healthy Tension is: Finding Value in the Process for Growth. Healthy Tension Truths: Tensions are often unsolvable Just cho

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Your Daily Lifetime

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Please take a moment and check out the Balancing the Christian Life Conference. It goes live as an online experience on July 27th through 29th. If you are interested in the Excel Still More 3 Month Journa l mentioned in today's episode, you can order through the link provided. I hope you'll go on this journey with me today of shrinking the idea lifetime into the form of a single day of living. The similarities are clear. But each day is more valuable than just building blocks to some desired future. The goals of a desired

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Spirit and Truth

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Spirit and Truth. Truth and Spirit. Two words Jesus linked together in proclaiming who will be a worshipper of God. But they can be so hard to balance. Spirit is personal, emotional, in some ways subjective. Truth is the opposite. It is objective, universal, the will and authority of God. Jesus is asking us to give them equal weight and that is hard. Can I ask you: which of the two is more important? If you were going to be good at one and not good at the other, which would you prefer it be? We'll dig in deeply on that to

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Images of Jesus

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! How do you see Jesus? We are called to cast our eyes on Him. We are told to see Him and we are given descriptions of Him. For me, for a long time, most of my images of Jesus had Him on the throne at times, but often looked back into His ministry on the earth. Maybe Jesus healing people. Maybe Jesus on the cross. Those are great ways to visualize His love. But those are past events. Those are earth bound events. They don't exactly picture where He is now, or fully embody who He is. So let's give some attention to the book

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Eyes On Jesus

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! You are going to love this episode! Yes, you get a tip on how to get let go from jury duty, but don't stop there. More importantly, you will hear the beautiful testimony of young ladies who have turned to faith. These Oklahoma Sooners are leading with their love for Christ, and they have the baptisms to prove it! Behind this cultural change is their head coach, who has been more vocal about her faith in the last 13 years, leading to many new believers in their program and a culture of focusing on the promises of Jesus Chr

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Plenty of Time?

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The devil will try anything to keep us from honoring our Lord. In centuries past he could keep people in the dark in terms of knowledge. Maybe keep people from getting a Bible, or keeping the preacher from making it to town. Maybe people had questions but couldn't get answers or help. That is not the case anymore, at least certainly not in America. We have information everywhere and available in seconds. So how is the devil to hurt is if he can't hide the truth from us? Well, he has a powerful tactic for times like these,

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