✅ PREVIEW THE COURSE –  Ready to introduce your church to Emotionally Healthy Discipleship? Preview our game-changing discipleship course for FREE and find the right time to run it in your church. https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/preview ————————— As leaders, we have an internal drive to see our ministries flourish.  We have a vision for our churches, families, marriages, and cities to experience the resurrection life of Jesus. That’s why we do what we do! Also, many of us know how easy it is for our God-given ambition to be hijacked by our shadows, fears, and insecurities.  The truth is – it’s possible to build a large ministry, but in the process, lose your soul. On today’s podcast, I hit this topic head on and share with you 5 MUSTS for growing a flourishing ministry without losing your soul.  

✅ [FREE VIDEO] Learn a 5-part framework for communicating with others https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/community ————————— Staff meetings, like it or not, are a critical building block for an emotionally healthy church culture. Over the years, I have learned that staff meetings are a powerful opportunity to bring encouragement, clarify roles, and learn how to be with Jesus together. There are books written about how to have a productive or efficient staff meeting, but in today’s podcast, I take a different approach. I’ve identified 5 ways to cultivate emotional health in your regular meetings.

✅ [FREE E-BOOK] LeaderSHIFT: 8 Pivotal Breakthroughs of Emotionally Healthy Leaders https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leadershift ————————— All around the world, there is an electrical charge surging through the minds and hearts of the people we lead. Our political climate has made this another difficult, yet important time to pastor and lead well. So how do we navigate politics personally AND from the pulpit without falling prey to the common traps of both sides of the aisle? In this podcast episode (Part 2 of 2), I share what I believe are 4 invitations from God to the Church in this moment. Within these invitations are keys for us to lead with grace, steadiness, and wisdom, as we pastor our churches through this storm.

✅ [FREE E-BOOK] LeaderSHIFT: 8 Pivotal Breakthroughs of Emotionally Healthy Leaders https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leadershift ————————— All around the world, there is an electrical charge surging through the minds and hearts of the people we lead. Our political climate has made this another difficult, yet important time to pastor and lead well. So how do we navigate politics personally AND from the pulpit without falling prey to the common traps of both sides of the aisle? In this podcast episode (Part 1 of 2), I share what I believe are 4 invitations from God to the Church in this moment. Within these invitations are keys for us to lead with grace, steadiness, and wisdom, as we pastor our churches through this storm.  

✅ [FREE E-BOOK] LeaderSHIFT: 8 Pivotal Breakthroughs of Emotionally Healthy Leaders https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leadershift ————————— As a young leader, I wanted so badly to succeed. I wanted to pastor a growing church, and preach the best sermons in town. I wanted to grow our ministries – bigger, better, and more influentual. To this end, I was told by leadership experts to develop my skills and competencies. I learned to preach and vision cast, to exegete the scriptures, do effective evangelism, lead staff meetings, and launch small groups. But over time these outward facing competencies became a WEIGHT that squeezed the life out of me. To make a long story short, this is what catalyzed a complete revolution in me. I knew that I (and we) needed a massive shift in our leadership paradigm. On today’s podcast, we explore the GREAT SHIFT we need.  

✅ FREE PREVIEW: Download and Watch Session One of the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Course — https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/preview Many Christians do not know what to do with their emotions. When sadness, anger, or disappointment surface in our souls, we avoid them rather than see them as gifts. As a result, we are rarely present with God or with others. The truth is that emotions never die. They are only buried alive. They always resurface, leaking into other parts of our lives and relationships. It took God’s work to change this in Geri Scazzero’s life and marriage. When Geri and her husband discovered the permission to explore their emotional lives, it was like opening up a dam for the first time. The world went from black and white to color almost overnight. In part five of this series, Geri Scazzero is joined by her husband Pete to explore the 8 essential relationship skills everyone must adopt in order. Read more.