Podcast: The Emotionally Healthy Leader

Six Marks of a Church Culture that Deeply Changes Lives: Part 4

Pete expands on the fourth quality of a church culture that deeply changes lives: healthy community. In a church culture that changes lives, leaders prayerfully and thoughtfully model how to do relationships differently in the new family of Jesus. In…

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Six Marks of a Church Culture that Deeply Changes Lives: Part 3

Pete expands on the third quality of a church culture that deeply changes lives: beneath-the-surface discipleship. In a church culture that deeply changes lives, no one assumes people are maturing on the basis of activities such as church attendance,…

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Six Marks of a Church Culture that Deeply Changes Lives: Part 2

In part 2 of this series on six marks of a church culture that deeply changes lives, Pete explores integrity in leadership. When we have integrity in leadership, we do not pretend to be something on the outside that we are not on the inside. Pete…

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Six Marks of a Church Culture that Deeply Changes Lives: Part 1

In part one of this new series, Pete explores the first and most important characteristic of a church culture that deeply changes lives – a slowed down spirituality. This is a church culture where people refuse to allow a hurried world to set the…

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Hard Lessons from the Life of Jacob: Part 4

In this 4th and final episode of a sermon series on the life of Jacob, Pete observes the life of Jacob in contrast to his son Joseph. One lived as if all things were against him. The other lived knowing God was for him even in difficult circumstances….

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Hard Lessons from the Life of Jacob: Part 3

In “Hard Lessons from the Life of Jacob: Part 3” Pete shares how Jacob finally faced his most difficult conflicts, became crippled in the process, but was changed by God. To download a free e-book on Six Marks of a Church Culture that Deeply Changes…

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Hard Lessons from the Life of Jacob: Part 2

Tension. Distress. Difficulty. Pressure. Do these adjectives describe some days in your leadership? In Part 2 of “Hard Lessons from the Life of Jacob” Pete shares how God met Jacob in the mess, strain and conflict of his leadership. God is there…

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Hard Lessons from the Life of Jacob: Part 1

Jacob offers us a rich study of leadership. While he was richly blessed by God – chosen, destined to greatness, and deeply loved – he struggled to rest in that reality. In Part 1 of this series, Pete unpacks the lessons of Jacob’s exploitation…

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Jesus’ 5 Challenges to Every Leader

Jesus’ challenge to the leaders in his day, found in his sermon in Matthew 23, is so biting and sharp that some interpreters have wondered if these words are authentically Jesus’. They are. In this podcast, Pete breaks down Jesus’ challenge into…

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Stop Fixing Your Church: Part 2

Pete invites you into his personal journey of slowly breaking patterns and behaviors of overfunctioning. After considering the examples of Moses and Martha as classic overfunctioners, he lays out the three steps he took to stop overfunctioning.  …

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