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Hurt and Healer

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Here are a few cool things coming up this month: www.balancingthechristianlife.com Check out this link to dig in on a tremendous lectureship that starts on July 28th. There are nearly 50 speakers on 5 different tracks, all devoted to helping you grow and carry out the Lord's work. I had the honor of doing the keynote address at the beginning of the series and I highly recommend you dig in on this and share with your friends and family. I've also mentioned three places I'll be worshipping and preaching this month. July 19-

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Redeeming the Time

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! What is your attitude about time? Do you understand growth is not about you doing complex, incredible things? True transformation is the result of simple, easy to do things, consistently done, and benefitted by the power of time. Time is a gift, an asset. It does things you cannot do. Your absolute best effort today cannot do what time can do with smaller, more consistent behavior. As I enjoy a deeper read into "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson, he doubles down on the power of time to bring about what you didn't think possi

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The Two Houses

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! In 1859 Charles Dickens wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" about the French Revolution of the late 1700's. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. If you lived anywhere near London or Paris, you knew what that meant. The world was filled with turmoil, different classes, and unpredictability. Dickens notes that it is always like that in every culture, and often within most people. Most people fight the power of both darkness and light, hope and despair, on an ongoing basis. Did you know it should not be that way wit

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Breaking the Cycle

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I'm really enjoying a new book, The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson. I recommend it to you. It is purely secular but gives tremendous tips that believers can use in every part of life. His early material drives our study today. He speaks of a life cycle, a wavelength of living that falls to desperation, then goes up to stable, then back down again. Over and over again, up and down, but limited by sufficiency and never really attaining success. How do we break that cycle? There are two crucial keys to continuing the upward tren

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How You Finish

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Everybody has heard this phrase: "It is not how you start, it's how you finish." Do you believe this? And how does it make you feel about the rest of the life God will gift to you? So many of us define ourselves by what has happened, or even who we are now. But Christ has not yet returned. Our time with our family and friends is not yet over. What does that mean to you? Is it an optimistic, grateful feeling in your heart? We ought to look at time as a brilliant gift to make things better. It should never be seen as a curs

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So Will I

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Happy Thursday to you! Two quick things to share. I will be at the Campbell Road church of Christ in Garland, TX June 17th-19th. Friday night at 7pm. Saturday beginning at 10:30am. And Sunday beginning at 9am. Come join us as we sing and pray and study renovating our spirits to go on beautiful missions of mercy in Jesus' mighty name. Today I want to share with you one of the most beautifully encouraging songs I've ever heard. Everything God has made around us, and everything God did in sending His Son, declares His glory

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Possible With God

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Have you ever read the Francis Chan book, Crazy Love? It will challenge you. He really makes us look at our life here in America and if we let our prosperity harden our hearts and keep us in a lukewarm state. Actually, it is a super challenging read and exposes a lot of work needed in most of us. But it also asks you to renovate your heart. If we can develop a heart for crazy love for God, and crazy love for people - loving them like God loves them - we can reach incredible charitable heights. Today I ask you to go on a j

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Community is Crucial

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today is a hard one. I need to talk to you about the school shooting in Uvalde, TX on Tuesday May 24th. An 18 year old young man shot and killed 19 kids and two adults. 17 others are currently in the hospital with injuries. Sadly, this is not an altogether isolated event. Increased violence by damaged, angry youth is more apparent every year in our country. What is happening and how can we fix it? Politics is something to discuss, but not today. Prayer is important to emphasize, but is that the limit of our ability to hel

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Three Phone Calls

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today we turn our gaze toward the future. One day you and I will leave this earth. When we do, most likely, the letter of our lives will be fully written and handed to our family and friends to live with for the rest of their lives. We aren't sending a letter back to ourselves but forward to our family. The question is, what will be written there? Will we seed hope in them? Will they draw joy from the choices in our lives, eternal and heavenly joy? Or will we leave them with doubt and fear? We can't go back into our past

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Dear Younger Me

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! What would you write if you had the chance to pen a letter to your younger self? What changes would you make? Would you try to avoid bad decisions? Would you direct yourself to lucrative investments? Okay, cool. But what if it risked what you have now? Would it be worth it? We are going to dig in on all of those questions today. To help guide us through, we will be reading and considering the lyrics from the Mercy Me song, "Dear Younger Me." I have added the lyrics to the song below. It takes a surprising, and somewhat hu

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The Beginner's Gift

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Do you remember what it felt like to start something amazing? Do you remember the first day of marriage? Or what it felt like to be washed in the blood of the Lamb? Wow, that was truly the best. For those who are exploring new things and feeling the joys of discovery, drink in every ounce of that! As for the rest of us, let's not give up the dream of daily joy and the emotions of gratitude. To enjoy the gift of fresh and excited eyes, we need to identify the qualities we once had and reach for them again. To help with thi

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Be Secretly Incredible

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! First, special thanks to Kinsey Fountain for a terrific idea! Second, thank to Bob Goff for his quote and life and work. There is a deep and different richness when our value is connected with our acts of kindness, not what people say about our acts of kindness. We all crave validation, and we live in a social media age, where likes amount to value for a great many things in our lives. But what if we figure out how to Be Secretly Incredible? Maybe you can be more loving and generous, for the sake of the act and the people

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Making Better Decisions

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Big Promise Today - A little bit of questioning can go a really long way. Just a few simple questions, asked at the right moment, can lead you to better decisions and fewer regrets. First, let's overcome some simple decision making mistakes we all make. Then we will look at the power of "want." After all, most people do exactly what they want to do! But there is more analysis needed. We need to ask three simple questions to put ourselves, and others, in a better place - day after day! Much of today's content was drawn fro

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Say I Won't

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Two Big Things Today: First, I'll be at the Twin Creeks church of Christ on May 1-4, 2022. This church is in Allen, TX, just North East of Dallas. Everyone is welcome as we study Missions of Mercy and making sure we have emptied our vessels so He can fill us with the Spirit. Here is a link to the church website. Second, the Mercy Me song "Say I Won't" gets our attention today. I will provide the lyrics below as well as a link to the incredible music video. Check it out! "Say I Won't" Today it all begins I'm seeing my life

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The Salvation Issues

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Most Christians are familiar with sentences like this: "This is a salvation issue." Of course, only Jesus decides such things. And while it may be alright to say such at times, it is often more about my personal convictions and, by the way, my side of the issue is always the saved side! lol. There is room to show people in Scripture that some issues make the difference between heaven and hell. Though we must be very careful to make sure it is what the Scripture actually and clearly teaches. But here is something that is a

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The Flow State

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Everyone wants to do their best, no matter what they are trying to accomplish. In order to do that, we have to prepare. There is physical and intellectual work. But all of that can go to waste if we aren't in the right mental state at the moment of the performance. It can be sports, presentations, or conversations - there often comes that nervous moment when it is time to put all of our preparation into practice. If we can perfectly connect ourselves with the task at hand, this is called "The Flow State." There is absolut

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Casting Out Demons

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Do you know what if feels like to be totally powerless to stop sin in your life? I understand that we have free will. But have you ever been so trapped, so held, by sin that you could not find your free will, or had absolutely no ability to access it? I know that feeling. Maybe worse, is when you see it happening to someone you love. What do you do when you can't fix it, they can't fix it, and not even time with Christians can free them from bondage? There is an answer. There is power so incredibly that it has not limits.

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Hal Elrod Interview!

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today is a big day! This is the very first Excel Still More Interview! I couldn't think of anyone better than Hal Elrod. A you will hear today, his story is incredible! Three times he went through traumatic events. His attitude through those things, and growth after them... well, it is simply transformational. Today Hal shows you how to grow through struggles by taking control of every day of your life. Every single day can be your very best day. And it all starts at the beginning... that is, with The Miracle Morning. Let

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Let's Talk Options

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! It was a nasty, cold, rainy, windy day. He was in a really tough spot and very upset about it. It wasn't the first time. On both occasions I was there with him. And on both occasions he calmed down enough to answer a very important question. This question is needed in the lives of us all. We are all prone to emotional reactions that cause more problems. We can often shut down totally when we don't know what to do. These decisions are often poor, but not just because they can make things worse. More importantly, they didn'

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Truth Be Told

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! S.A.L.S.A. - San Antonio Leadership Service Action April 1-3 - O'Connor Road church of Christ, San Antonio, TX Fri 7pm / Sat 10am / Sun 9:30 and 2:30. "I'm fine." How often have you said this, but it wasn't true. Why is it so hard to admit when we need help? Do we think people don't care? Or maybe we just think we are behind repair. Closing ourselves off, and lying, leads to deeper darkness. But honestly with others starts with God. When we are truthful with God AND we understand the life giving truth about God... things

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Practicing at Home

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! "You are a vessel, built and restored by God, to be filled with the Spirit, so that you can pour the Spirit into the lives of everyone you meet." Sounds great, right? Like a mission of mercy, laid out before you every day and everywhere you go! Well, how many of us understand that this includes our home? In fact, it must start in our home. God has given us family and connection so that we can be patient, loving, merciful encouragers of one another. The qualities Jesus prescribes for being a light to the world must first b

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The Positive Thinker

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I hope enjoy this excellent stuff from Dr. Jim Kirby! He is truly a great and godly man. His positivity and wonderful personality are exactly what most of us need. But... it is also exactly who most of us can be. Positive thinking unlocks your best attitude and greatest potential. Walk with me through the speech given by Jim at the Tarleson State University in 2015. Jim retired that year due to brain tumors that affected him. Even in trial, he shines through as a "can do" person who continues, even now, to do things that

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Strength is Christ

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The world is a mess. Everyone knows it. People are getting hurt. Power struggles prevail. But where is the strength? Where is the strong man who can do what is needed? We often associate strength with power, wealth, influence, and ability. But the truth is, there are far too many weak people, in leadership roles, who just so happen to possess all of those things. They are extremely dangerous. But I want to talk about you and me. What does it mean for us to grow in strength? How can we move away from weakness? I don't need

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"If" to "When"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I apologize. I have used some epic cover art from Tombstone: Say When. I found this after the episode and wished I had mixed in Doc Holliday at some point! But as it is, I want to focus on the value of saying WHEN in conflict resolution and especially in authority relationships. Many parents use the IF / THEN construct with their kids. If you don't do this, then... And it builds in an extra layer of conflict to the situation, by focusing on negative behavior and punishment. There is room for those things, but it should no

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Ignoring the Rabshakeh

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome to bonus episode number 2 for this year. As indicated, I want to let you know of places I hope to be preaching this year. If you are in the Tampa/Orlando area, I hope you will come and worship with us at the Brandon church of Christ on March 4-6. Friday and Saturday night at 7pm, as well as Sunday AM and PM. https://brandonmembers.com/ As to our story today, place yourself on the wall of Jerusalem. You have been told that your godly king can save you, that God is with him. But you are hearing something else from o

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