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Smarter Not Harder

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Hard Work is good. Everybody knows we should be working hard. However, it is not the best thing. It is not the first or most important thing. The better thing is to Work Smart. Wisdom in our pursuits, strategy in our path, is way more important. Plenty of people grind and get few results. For some reason, they keep grinding, and it doesn't do any good. In fact, it leads to giving up. We can do better. But we have to be humble enough to admit: "maybe I'm not doing this the best way it can be done." Let's do a little resear

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Deep Abiding Peace

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Peace within the soul is a joy to all who have it. But with the darkness of the world and the uncertainties of life, many live with only passing moments of peacefulness. Christ has promised you so much more. He wants to house something in your soul that abides, that stands the test of time and life itself. Today we will talk about what that peace is, what cannot replace it, and how to build the real thing in your life. - How would you define the word "peace"? - Is this even attainable in the physical world? - If you are s

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Much More Jesus

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We all have challenges in our relationships at times. There are just some people we tend to argue with. There are some topics that bring out our passion and not always for the best. There are certainly life issues and situations that are very hard and aren't always handled well. This seems confusing. I mean, we are Christians. Christ brings peace. Why is there so little peace, at times, in our lives? The answer is the name we carry. We are to be "of Christ." And this, my friend, means we need Much More Jesus! Literally an

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Your World Picture

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Each of us has a strong collection of beliefs and convictions. People are willing to fight to the death of friendships, families, church, in the name of their own world picture. It's fine to have a strong view of things, but can you admit it may not be right. If we are always learning, and don't stand in the way of new information, there is a chance we can actually see things more clearly and do better. Everyone ones to get better, but few know that changing your view on things is required first. Let's look at how we can

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In His Time

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Tonight was special for me. It is Sunday night, just one day before the podcast's release. I was sitting with two special friends, and we stood to sing the final song: "In His Time." I felt like God was surrounding me with beautiful things and people at that moment, and I have great hope for many more in the future, and in eternity! Do you live with that kind of hope? Do you expect good things from God, marvelous blessings from Him, to be right around the corner? - Has God placed beautiful things in your life today, right

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It Doesn't Matter

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome to calmness in a frustrating world! Okay, how about the PROSPECT of such a thing. I'm the kind of person who has immediate emotional reactions that often get me in trouble. I very often look back and think, "If I had just taken a moment to think about that, things would have gone so much better." And, there is a special little phrase that helps me do that. Today, I will share some personal issues and recent episodes that have discouraged me. I promise this isn't a call to pity, though I am pretty pitiful. But I ne

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The MasterCard Symbol

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Why can't we just all agree on everything? Why don't people see things like you see them all the time? And does a healthy relationship demand such? Well, on that last one, I sure hope not! The truth is, we see things differently than even our closest friends. How do we deal with that? I have to tell you, there are a lot of relationships that are defined by the differences. And those relationship are awful. Maybe its a marriage, or a blood brother. All they can think about is how they disagree and why that prevents them fr

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The Hope Experiment

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I am apologizing in advance. The experiment behind today's episode is pretty morbid. I in no way hope that you find yourself swimming for your life in a oversized test tube. I also feel like the feedback that is coming will ensure no more episodes feature rats, dead or alive. However... for today... I have an old scientific experiment to share with you. If a rat can change it's potential by 240X from just a moment's infusion of hope, how much more so you and me? Consider the power of hope in your life, and what it means t

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Love and Light

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! This episode feels important. Sure, I want to talk to you about your influence. I want to talk to you about the love in you and who gets that love and how longsuffering your are with it. And yes, I want to ask about your light. I want to tell you that you reflect Christ and the world needs to see you illuminated in His name. All of that is important. But it is also impossible. Yes, you heard that right, it cannot be done. Unless... Unless the love of God is real in your life. Unless the light of God warms your soul. Too m

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Looking For Adventure

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I'm in search of someone who is looking for adventure. Who is ready to step out there and do something that most people will not do. You need to know, it won't be easy. And there are risks that it might not go as planned. And you have no way to predict what will happen next! But the alternative... being stuck in the system, in the mundane, in a machine that isn't really you and doesn't represent who you want to be... well, I'm done with that. Maybe you are as well. If so, hop in for a big decision. Jordan Peterson wrote a

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"Don't Blame Anybody"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Jon Rahm had his heart broken. He was winning a major tournament, just one day away from 1.7 million dollars. And then, it all went away, all of the sudden. What happened to him was terrible, unfair, and infuriating. But how would he respond? Would he blame everyone? Would he use it as an excuse to behave poorly? Nope. This dude is solid. And the attitude he put on display is an example to us all. Oh, and good attitudes lead to good outcomes! - Have you recently had something unfair happen to you in your life? - How did t

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Jar of Rocks

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Life is busy. Everyone says this and we all mean it! So how do we keep the stress down and make sure everything important gets done? And done well? Maybe we need to evaluate how we order elements of our lives. Maybe if we keep putting small things first, we aren't giving big things the space they need to be successful. Let's walk through a visual illustration that can help us order things well and have far less stress. - What happens when little things take priority over bigger things in our schedule? - How can starting w

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An Evangelistic Culture

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Has anyone ever told you that evangelism is important? I would imagine you've heard it 100 times. We preachers talk about how God has called us to spread the Word in all circumstances. We talk about whole churches being active in teaching Jesus to others. And yet, many churches, and many individuals, just haven't gotten the hang of it. Not that it is absent altogether. We each and all have our shining moments, and maybe can even name someone who is a Christian because God brought them into our lives. But what if that was

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Let's Talk "Fellowship"

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The word "fellowship" has always been a challenge for me. I was raised for a while to believe it meant one thing. And then, later, it seemed I was being told something opposite. Today, from the Scriptures, I see something beautiful. Fellowship is an invisible thing, a spiritual and eternal thing, that shows itself, proves itself, in real time with people of faith. I want to explore the incredible facets of koinonia, from the spiritual to the physical. We need this. After that pandemic, we need this. But also, because of t

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Fixing Your Windshield

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Last year we got a crack in the windshield of our 2018 Honda Odyssey. We had months to fix it, but didn't. This Spring, that little crack became a massive one that ran all the way across the driver's sight line! At that point, we had no choice. But we also had not options. It had to be replaced and the cost was HUGE. I sure wish we would have addressed that earlier, for FREE! Lots of cracks, chips, little problems pop up in our lives. If they are on the passenger's side, we tend to forget about them. But they usually don'

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Have A Heart

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I want to introduce you to the most marvelous, life changing book! I cannot recommend it enough. It is called the "Gospel of Luke." Maybe you have read it before. But have you read it lately. And more importantly, have you read it in search of the heart of Christ? His compassion and love for people, and His charge for disciples to help and teach and give... unbelievable. I'm afraid many churches haven't focused enough on the love of people found in the Gospels. Focusing on the church and the epistles and the patter of wor

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Creation to Revelation

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! God has blessed most of us with children to influence and train. Maybe it is your sons and daughters, maybe you've gone on to the parenting heaven of grandkids. Maybe you influence other young family members, kids at church, or in your neighborhood. Do we understand that God is looking to us to share the message of Jesus with them? Like Abraham before us, God chooses us because He seeks growth even beyond our own lives. He is looking for people who will instill faith into the next generation, and teach the Word of God, an

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Prayer and Fasting

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The disciples could not cast out the demon. Why not? Because their faith was too small. And Jesus told them how to get that faith right where it needed to be: PRAYER and FASTING! Do you use these tools from Christ to grow your faith? For some of us, prayer is just a thing we do. And fasting... well... we don't do that, except to lose weight. But Christ has a two part plan to give you access to God's power. Let's look at two acronyms today P.R.A.Y. and F.A.S.T. to get this week going right to God's thrown and get the neede

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Myth and Passage

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today we wrap up our short series on marriage. We started by looking in the mirror. Then we built a triangle and laid out a plan to grow towards God. Then we strategized a plan to make sure we are always fighting on the same side and never against one another. And we discussed the beautiful SECRET (my favorite) to get all of this back in place. Today we look at two final ideas: the myth and the passage. One of them is something we want to debunk and avoid (it is truly awful). And the other is something we need to believe

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Strategy and Secret

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome back to our three part series on marriage. We started a couple of weeks back with a lot of self evaluation. It starts with looking in the mirror and asking, "is it me?" Then, we talked about the life triangle, and how you must head closer to God. If both of you can do that, you will always find each other there, in the presence of God. Today, we start looking at teamwork. It is time to turn the pronouns towards "us" and "we." It begins by building a strategy, a game plan, a war approach, that IS NOT against one an

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Putting Down Roots

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sommer and I had an amazing two nights in Florida last week! We saw beaches on both coasts. But the highlight was speaking at the Florida College Spring Banquet. I had the honor of addressing 300+ college students. I spoke to them about envisioning a better version of themself. In today's episode I'll walk you through those suggestions and ask you to do the same. "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" Stuff like that! But knowing what you want to be become is not enough. Wanting to becoming a certain type o

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Mirror and Triangle

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Marriage is awesome! At least, that's what God designed it to be. And for nearly all of us, when we first got married, we had awesome expectations. Whatever the state of your home, you can see things get even better by looking at SIX SIMPLE IDEAS. Maybe you aren't yet married, or maybe you are no longer married. I assure you, these ideas are also for you. Maybe they can prepare to you get way ahead of the game. Or maybe you can share these with loved ones who need more hope in their home. This week we will look at the MIR

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Questions For Achievers

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today we conclude a short series on 3 Questions for... Everyone, Leaders, and now Achievers. This is derived from a podcast called Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron. Though he didn't mention God and we have modified the topics and questions to address our spiritual walk. We started with "Believe to Achieve" which addressed questions about what you believe, why you believe it, and whether or not others are seeing it in your life. We then addressed leaders, which most of us are in some capacity or another. Are we communica

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Questions For Leaders

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Last week we looked at three questions all people must regularly consider. Did you spend some time on that? Have you found your core belief? If you missed that episode, we will have a short recap here. Today, we push forward to leadership. Many of us are leaders: of families, at work, over churches, or just in general among our friends. Leaders have a big responsibility. They not only pick a direction. They bring others along with them! - What are three questions each and every leader should consider often? - How importan

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Believe to Achieve

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I was on a long drive back to Texas from Missouri this past week. A friend suggested a podcast called Chasing Excellence. It is secular in nature, but taps into the power to do greater things. But that power has to be in me. I must believe in something. Not because others do, nor because they tell me I should. That thing must be real to me. Once it is, and I can explain to myself and others why it is, I can draw from the power of that conviction to live an extraordinary life. But not in all things. Only in things in which

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