"Us" over "Me"

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

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Send us a textThe ESM Podcast has largely been built for individual application and growth. For one thing, that's a whole lot easier to talk about and accomplish in comparison to collective behavior. You can change you. But changing others... that's a whole lot tougher. Changing the direction of an entire family, church, or culture... that seems impossible.But Scripture challenges us over and over again to think more societally. Even the story of Nehemiah was not about a guy who rebuilt his l...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 5 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I'm still your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.
0:14.2	The program continues to be sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John is a good friend, and he's helped me and my family in everything
0:21.8	from stock and mutual fund investing to annuities, life insurance, and retirement planning.
0:28.1	I certainly commend him to you if you have needs in any of those areas. You can reach him
0:32.8	at 205-326-7364. Thank you again for your ongoing encouragement and support. Let's get started.
0:45.9	Hey, welcome back. I hope that your week has started well. Today is very much a continuation of last week's episode. As I kind of teased at the end, we will be
0:55.7	revisiting the story of Nehemiah and the rebuilt walls today. However, I will be challenging
1:01.4	you to see not only that story, but a lot of other things in the Bible from more of a collective
1:07.5	angle instead of an individual one. This shift and focus will cause us to ask very different
1:14.3	questions, maybe even on passages you've seen your whole life. I certainly hope you find this
1:19.5	useful and that it challenges you in a way that will pay off not only for you, but for anyone and
1:25.9	everyone that is in your circle of influence.
1:28.7	Now, I want to say as we get started, I'm all about individual application. You've heard me do
1:33.4	it for years. I devoted all of last week's episode to telling you the story of Nehemiah and asking
1:39.7	you on a personal level, are you a 90-year waiter or are you a 52-day accomplisher? And just to follow up
1:48.6	with that for a minute, how's that going for you? Is today the eighth day of some rebuild that
1:54.4	you're doing? Something that you've overlooked for a really long time or started and stopped
1:59.5	over and over again, that you are committed to a 52-day
2:02.9	change? I hope you've chosen something, maybe more than one thing, and you are already beginning
2:08.2	to see yourself become unshackled from addiction or lethargic behavior, and maybe you're even
2:14.4	seeing some results. So just to be clear, I'm super big on that,
2:17.9	excelling still more from an individual basis.
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