Podcast: PODCASTS

Become Leaders Who Cage and Tame Tigers: Part 2

In part 2 of this week’s podcast, Pete focuses on the taming of “tiger” behaviors that happen on every team. In Part 1, he defined a “tiger” as someone who invades and damages the overall health of our community due to their own lack of awareness…

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Prayer of Rest

No matter how savvy you are, no matter how much planning you do, no matter how powerful or successful you are, there’s no way to stop times of difficulty from coming into your life. They will come into your life.
So how do you get peace and poise in your…

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Prayer of Thirst

Psalms 42 and 43 talk about how to deal with being downcast, how to deal with being despondent, in despair, in darkness. Everybody needs this throughout life. No matter who we are, we all go through these times.
Let’s notice that there’s a condition des…

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#31 Jean Vanier and when leaders let us down

In the wake of the news that L’Arche founder Jean Vanier was responsible for sexual abuse of women during his ministry, Tom Wright respond to questions from listeners let down by leaders and the church.
Be part of the Ask NT Wright Anything live show in …

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Prayer of Confession

The way the word “sin” hits modern people’s ears, it either makes us laugh or shudder. We laugh, because, generally speaking, the word sin is usually used in modern public discourse in a lighthearted, ironic way. But we don’t like to talk about sin serio…

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Become Leaders Who Cage and Tame Tigers: Part 1

Pete defines a “tiger” as someone who invades and damages the overall health of our community due to their own lack of awareness and immaturity. In part 1 of this week’s podcast, Pete explores the issue of caging and taming “tigers” who emerge under…

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Healing of Sin (Part 2)

What we try to do during the Easter season is turn our minds toward what Jesus did, why he did it, and the meaning of what he did in Gethsemane, on the hill of Calvary, in the tomb. One of the things, among many, that it means is what we see here in Psal…

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Healing of Sin (Part 1)

The gospel is only an implicit, untapped power in your life until it’s released in power through repentance. For the changes you want, the changes you seek, the changes you need–the secret is repentance.
This passage is perhaps the classic and the greate…

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Sin as Slavery

The Bible says human hearts are sinful, but beyond that we’re slaves to sin. The Bible says sin is not just an action; it’s a power. Every sinful action has a destructive power upon the faculty that put that action forth.
In other words, when you sin wit…

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Differentiation: Lead from the Integrity of Who You Are

In today’s podcast, Pete shares an important truth from one of his favorite biblical characters – John the Baptist. John does not imitate other people, and part of leadership is to differentiate and bring that uniqueness of who God has made you to…

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