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Excel Still More

Holding the Cross

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Self-improvement, Increase, Jesus, Achieve, Spiritual, Health & Fitness, Best, Goals, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Excel, Christianity, Education, Grow

4.9766 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Send us a textHave 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 ...

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0:00.0

Welcome to Season 6 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

0:14.3

Our program continues to be sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John is a good friend and he's helped me and my family in everything

0:21.9

from stock and mutual fund investing to annuities, life insurance, and retirement planning.

0:28.2

I certainly commend him to you if you have needs in any of those areas. You can reach him at

0:33.3

205-326736-3-64. Thank you again for your ongoing encouragement and support. Let's get started.

0:44.7

Hey, how's your day going? I hope that it is well and that you have clearly seen already the ways that

0:50.6

God wants to not only bless you, but utilize you in his work. And if you are

0:55.5

beginning the morning by listening, thank you for that. I hope I can share some things to challenge

1:00.0

you and encourage you and get you to look for opportunities to engage in something today

1:05.6

openly and visible to others that demonstrates what the cross of Christ means to you. So here's a little

1:12.6

setup on my side of things. It is currently Friday at 3.45 p.m. I'm up here in my little cubbyhole

1:18.7

at the church building recording. That's just three days before the episode launches, which is actually

1:24.0

kind of unusual for me. I'll hit some creative stretches where I can record two or three

1:28.5

in a week and be well ahead, or usually by Monday or Tuesday, something's just begging to be recorded.

1:34.2

But honestly, this week, it was just a little tougher. So this morning, I was getting ready to

1:38.6

come to the office and I thought, you know, I'm sure I can find an old sermon or something with some things that can help, and maybe I'll just do that.

1:45.3

But instead, I think I made a better decision, and that was to head to Tyler, that's the

1:49.7

city nearest us, to do some visiting.

1:51.7

Just a brief side note, the best way to get out of any kind of a mental funk or lockdown

1:57.2

is to just go be with good people.

2:00.0

Just find some people you can talk to, encourage,

2:03.2

help, listen to. And before you know it, it becomes quite obvious that God is at work.

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