Podcast: The Emotionally Healthy Leader

Why Leadership Matters

Pete offers highlights from the eight charts that formed the basis of his book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, contrasting the standard practice of how we typically do leadership vs. an emotionally healthy way, and talks about his new free e-book:…

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Elijah: Hearing God in the Sound of Sheer Silence

Pete explores the story (with its present-day applications) of God directing Elijah to go to a desert for silence and solitude.

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Finding Your Desert Rhythm

This podcast looks at Jesus’ intentional movement from active ministry with people to times of solitude in a desert place in order to be alone with the Father. It also examines practical ways we can develop a similar rhythm of finding our…

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Slowing Down “To Be” the Beloved

In this podcast you will hear a message on God’s invitation – at every stage of our life and leadership – to grasp ever more deeply that we are his “beloved,” i.e. we are deeply loved by him. Getting this truth frees us from the demonic voices…

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Lessons from the Desert Fathers/Mothers: Part 2

In part 2 of this series, Pete talks about 4 additional gifts/applications from the Desert Fathers and Mothers that offer a challenge to us in leadership today.

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Lessons from the Desert Fathers/Mothers: Part 1

At the end of the third century Christian men and women began to flee the cities and villages of the Nile Delta in Egypt to seek God in the desert. In this podcast, Pete talks about what he believes is their contribution and gift for us today – both…

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Lessons from the “Rule” of Benedict

Pete expands on the 7 primary lessons (or gifts) from the Rule of Benedict that have profoundly influenced his life and leadership.  

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Brokenness: God’s Strange Pathway to Greatness (Part 2)

The pressure to present an image of ourselves as strong and spiritually “together” hovers over most of us. We forget that not one of us is perfect and that we are all sinners. Pete explores Psalm 51 as a model for us, concluding with a few…

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Brokenness: God’s Strange Pathway to Greatness (Part 1)

Leadership in the name of Jesus is from the bottom up, not a grasping or controlling of circumstances and people. It is leading out of failure and pain, questions and struggles — a serving that lets go. It is a noticeably different way of life from…

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Relax

In the gospel of John the word “belief” can best be understood as “relax in” or “trust.” How do we get there? Listen to Pete’s message based on John 6:16-21 and learn to relax. 

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