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Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsor:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 12 Thinking Shifts Among Millennials/Gen Z Christians…  (The First Six) by Wilson Adams Cultural thinking changes aren’t just coming, they’re here. In some ways, pruning-thinking is biblically health...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Have 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? M...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Okay, the photo for the episode was found after the episode was recorded. It just made me smile so I added it. We can often be a little more like Pinocchio than we should. But worst of all is when the person we are lying to is ourselves. This can be the hardest habit to break.  This episode looks at 5 Passages and a Story fro...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! What is the most important key to a healthy relationship? Specifically, between a man and a woman who profess that they love one another? You might say, "faith." Which is hard to argue with. I address that early in the episode. But even faith, if it cannot be shared well, honestly, and fully, will always be lacking....

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Hey, "IT'S ME SEASON." Okay, actually it is not. But I did see that printed on a sweat shirt recently. What are your thoughts on that? It really struck me as an honest, but also very sad proclamation. Our culture is shifting so quickly and fully to individualistic thinking. It doesn't make me angry to see...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I chose the image:  Paradoxes: Hard and Good - Not because it is true, but because of how often we see it as true. There can be this construct that opposes hard and seeks good, and even measures good, in terms of ease. It is very difficult to search my life history and see much correlation between Easy and Good. It is practic...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We are saved by faith. the Bible is clear about that. We are saved by our belief. The Gospel of John tells us that - Jesus tells us that - over and over. But we know there has to be something more to it. I mean, the demons believe and shutter. And faith without works is dead. So what is this saving faith? What does it look li...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I want to carefully invite you to a place of thinking through past fears today. I know some can be far too deep or hurtful for us to venture into. But if you are like me, you've got stories of just really scary, sorrowful, unforgettable events that you recall often. How do you feel when you recall them? Is the objective...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome to the 4th ever ESM interview. I did one with Hal Elrod several years ago. At Christmas last year I shared one with Kenny Embry. A few weeks ago we brought on Jacob Hudgins. And now... my good friend and fellow podcaster, Benjamin Lee. Ben's drive and faith and laugh just draw people to him. He's an incredib...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! My kiddo, Luke, preached a sermon the other day that featured this opening quote: “Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power.” James Allen (As A Man Thinket...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome to my personal favorite Bob Goff story. And that's saying something. His life has been incredibly interestingly lived. I linked to his books last week. Today I'll add a link to an episode from 2022 that featured his work in Uganda: Be Secretly Incredible . Part of being incredible is loving people. Not just...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! God built each of us to align our mind and body. He gave us this beautiful things called a conscience to process His will, and factors of life, to create a consistency between heart and deeds.  When we link those up, we are our authentic selves. Your authentic self may not be right, but it's honest. You may grow and chan...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! For just the third time in ESM history - it's an interview! It is my pleasure to have Jacob Hudgins on the program today to walk us through the House Rules that he has implemented in his home and has written about for the benefit of others. This will be our fifth and final episode in the House Rules series. And I was thi...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I have made 3 major financial decisions in my life that stand above the rest. One was awful. One was safe. And the last was exciting. To me, these represent the kind of choices that go far beyond portfolios, and certainly have more value than money. Let me walk you through those choices, spanning 25 years of my life. Maybe th...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today, launch day, is "the most depressing day of the year." That being the case, I feel like a wellness check is needed: so how are you doing? Are you weathering January okay? If you are, I want you to see how much you've overcome to feel that way! And if not, there are real reasons for that which affect a lot...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Our cover image today is a 10 year old boy deciding whether or not to make his bed. He clearly doesn't want to. And yet, it is his responsibility. What factor will be determine what he does next? Sometimes doing the right thing is hard. And when it comes down to just the action... we may not want to do it at all. But the...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Say it with me: Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex! Or aMCC for short. Today we take a little look into the brain, to find a very special part that controls the willpower of the rest. If we can learn how it works, and how to make it stronger, well, there isn't any part of your growth in life that won't be affected and he...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray 2024 is a wonderful adventure in growth and change and increased faith and joy in Christ! Welcome to season 6 of the ESM podcast. It's been an amazing journey thus far and I am looking forward to this season. Today's content - the challenge to balance out four elements of your life: Physical,...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray 2024 is a wonderful adventure in growth and change and increased faith and joy in Christ! Welcome to season 6 of the ESM podcast. It's been an amazing journey thus far and I am looking forward to this season. Today's content - the challenge to balance out four elements of your life: Physical,...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Merry Christmas! Launch day for this week's episode is December 25th. I pray safety and joy for you and your loved ones. May the Father, Son and Spirit be with you all. About a month ago, Kenny Embry and I had a discussion about stress management. It became an hour long dive into our personal lives and things that have r...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! What would you find if you used some personal time excavating the center of your heart, taking a fearless moral inventory, and finding out what drives all you do? This week we look at the power of self-awareness. It is massively valuable. But to be honest, it is much deeper and more needful that I first thought. To me self-aw...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 Welcome to PART 3 of 6 in our House Rules Series. Here is a link to Jacob&a...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 First things first, here is a link to Mannish Zomorodi's Ted Talk (not...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 Welcome to PART 2 of 6 in our House Rules Series. Here is a link to Jacob&a...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 Happy Thanksgiving Week! I hope things go well for you with family and frie...