Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Welcome to our website. Our mission at Emotionally Healthy Spirituality is to equip pastors and leaders in a new leadership paradigm that integrates emotional health & contemplative spirituality. God led us on a journey sixteen years ago to pioneer the integration of these missing components of biblical spiritual formation at New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, NYC. Take a few moments and look at the following info-graphic that describes this comprehensive paradigm...

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Pete's recent message on Acts 1. What is it time to let go of in your life right now? What new thing is standing backstage waiting to make its entrance? For a new beginning (resurrection), there must first be a clear ending. This is a expanded theology on loss/grief/new beginnings birthed after a couple of years of internal and theological reflection.

For the past few years I, along with our Teaching Team at NLF, have been wrestling with the place of the Lord's Supper and Baptism in our people's transformation. The following is a recent sermon I gave that represents my growing understanding of the importance of the Lord's Supper. It was titled: "The Bread of Heaven in a Technological World" Click here to view the video.
04/27/12

Pete recently did an interview with Preaching Today were he shares some insights on the importance of becoming an emotionally healthy preacher. Click here to read the article.
02/27/12

Communion with God
11/30/11

Watch Pete articulate the vision for NLF based on the 5 M's (monastic, multicultural, eMotionally healthy, married to Christ and missional). Click here for handout that accompanies the sermon.
11/30/11

Geri had a fantastic weekend speaking to a gathering of Evangelical Pastor Church pastor wives in Colorado around I Quit and Emotionally Healthy Skills in October, 2011. She will be piloting our Emotionally Healthy Skills with a group of Evangelical Free leaders in Minnesota the second week of November as we prepare to release EH Skills to Loving Well 2.0 next March, 2012.
11/08/11

Pete and Geri spoke in Veracruz, Mexico to several hundred pastors/leaders as the emotionally healthy spirituality message continues to explode in Latin America. Go to http://www.propositos.org/ehs.iglesias.htm to see the number of churches now doing the church-wide initiative.
11/08/11

Read the history of New Life Fellowship
10/20/11

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The Way to the Future is through the Past
In preparation for our Emotionally Healthy Leadership Conference I spent a lot of time reading of about the impact of social media/technology on our formation in Christ along with the importance of learning from other spiritual traditions outside of contemporary evangelicalism to root us deeply in Christ. What are the …

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EHL Conference -Opening Talk on the Leader’s Marriage
This is the a segment of the opening talk Geri and I gave at our Pastor’s/Leader’s Marriage Pre-conference yesterday around a biblical theology of Marriage and Leadership. Beginning with our inadequate theology of marriage and leadership, we expound on the truth that as goes the leader’s marriage, so goes the …

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