The Holy Longing

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

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

4.9 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Send us a textSpecial thanks to my friend, Kam Armstrong, for calling my attention to the book Sacred Fire, by Ronald Rolheiser. He expresses three levels of life, both physically and spiritually: Essential Discipleship (the struggle to get our lives together), Mature Discipleship (the struggle to give our lives away), and Radical Discipleship (the struggle to give our deaths away).We will be focusing on the first of those today, and particularly how young adults embrace this task of putting ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.
0:14.9	Today's podcast is sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John Cunningham is a friend of mine and a brother in Christ, and he can help you with financial
0:25.3	decisions and future planning.
0:27.6	He's been a big help to me and my family, and I commend him to you.
0:30.9	You can reach him at 205-913-1720.
0:41.3	I am so thankful you're here, so let's get started.
0:56.5	Hey, welcome and thanks for listening, bold prediction early, best episode ever. So maybe it will be and maybe it won't, but that does represent how excited I am about today's content. The most hopeful thing I can say about it is that most of the
1:01.9	content did not come from me, but I am presently reading a book that is not only jam-packed
1:07.2	filled with ideas that I hadn't considered before, but really opens the door to some
1:12.2	intergenerational connections that I feel like have tremendous value. I will break down as much
1:18.3	of that as I can with you today, but I need to begin by giving credit with a shout out. Last week,
1:23.6	I got a Facebook message from a friend of mine, a sister in Christ. She lives out in Abilene,
1:29.0	Cam Armstrong. She told me how encouraging this particular book was, so I went and did a little
1:34.5	research and ordered a paper copy and sat down yesterday with a pencil in hand and just started
1:39.9	reading. And she was right on the money. So if you see Cam Armstrong, give her a high five. If you know
1:45.6	her from a distance, send her a digital high five because what I hope to be a very rich episode is made
1:51.6	possible because of her. The book is called Sacred Fire by Ronald Rollheiser, a vision for a deeper
2:00.0	human and Christian maturity.
2:02.9	What I think is far and away the best aspects of this book is that he recognizes that in
2:08.2	human growth, there are three distinct stages that you transition from, beginning at
2:14.3	puberty, the teenage years, adolescent, young adulthood, into the middle age of life
2:21.5	where you have a family in a career, and then to those final stages of life where you evaluate
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