{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FA Church","title":"The Tension Of Excellence - Hunter Gillis | First Assembly Church","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2586,"description":"This past Sunday, Pastor Hunter Gillis concluded our Unshakeable series with a message titled “The Tension of Excellence,” drawing from Daniel 6 and Jeremiah 29. He reminded us that Daniel’s faithfulness in exile wasn’t flashy—it was marked by consistency, integrity, and excellence that distinguished him, even in a hostile culture. Pastor Hunter emphasized the tension we feel as believers called to live with conviction and character in environments that may resist our faith. He outlined a vision for living well in that tension: cultivating an incorruptible mind transformed by God’s Word, hardworking hands committed to serving as unto the Lord, and a faithful heart that remains connected to Jesus in prayer. Just as God called the exiles in Babylon to flourish and seek the good of their city, we too are invited to thrive where we’ve been placed—not by conforming, but by faithfully standing out.\n✍️ Notes\nIt pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss. Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.” Daniel 6:1-5 (NIV)\n⭑ Fighters & Followers\n⭑ Flourishers\nThis is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2rS6CncygjSrU4_eAytDXGn13c_aC8wKWWeu0LjCRnQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81OTgy/MDQxMzg5MTZiY2M3/MzMxYjY2OWU4N2U0/ZTA0Ni5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}