Love Like Jesus - How the Heart of Christ reaches beyond comfort zones, even to the lives of our enemies.

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

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

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Thank you for spending time with me today. Update: Charlie Kirk has died. At the time of recording, he had just been shot and the outcome was unclear. There is so much evil in this world, all of it the work of Satan and the opposite of Christ. Please remember to love—love the innocent, love the ignorant, and love the sinner, all sinners. We will examine stories of violence today, calling for justice. But do not let...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Excel Stomore podcast. I'm so thankful that you've joined. Today's episode is sponsored by Spirit Building Publishers. This group of Christians is committed to providing fresh, relevant, and practical Bible study material for today's Christian families and churches.
0:23.0	Their workbooks and devotionals are rooted in scripture, easy to teach, and written for the real
0:29.1	world we live in. Whether you're studying with teens or leading a class or just growing on your own,
0:34.9	the Spirit Building website provides you with a wide variety of options.
0:39.7	You can visit them at spiritbuilding.com and discover materials that can help you and your church
0:46.0	excel still more.
0:50.0	Welcome to the podcast today.
0:52.1	I hope that your day is going great, and I just want to thank you for spending a few minutes with me.
0:56.5	It may be a bit of a challenging section today. Last week, we talked about forgiveness, which wasn't easy.
1:02.3	But today, in some ways, we will revisit that, and that I want to talk to you about loving like Jesus.
1:09.4	Loving people like Jesus loves them is a grand challenge of life. I find it easy
1:16.2	to love people who think like me or look like me or who like me or who are in some inner circle
1:24.1	that I trust, but it becomes more and more difficult to believe in the good of
1:29.8	others as those variables begin to change. And I'm here to tell you that I know that about myself,
1:35.2	and maybe we're in some ways conditioned to think that way. For whatever reasons or history or
1:41.2	expectations, if people don't look like us or sound like us or think like us,
1:46.1	the guard goes up. It can be difficult to be kind to strangers to both pray for and get involved
1:52.8	in the lives of people in need around us whom we do not know. And once that starts to cross
1:58.3	ethnic or nationality lines or all different kinds of comfort zone
2:03.1	barriers that we have, we sometimes miss the fact that Jesus loves whoever that is just as much
2:08.9	as Jesus loves you and me in the sense that he made all of us. He knows everything about each of us.
2:21.0	Jesus wants to see everyone come to the truth. There's no one too evil, indoctrinated too deeply, or too lost, that the gospel cannot reach them and change them.
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