Unhurried Living
539 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsMany of us feel hurried, and hurry is costing us more than we realize. Unhurried Living provides resources and training to help people learn to live and lead from fullness rather than on empty. Great influence begins on the inside, in your soul. Learning healthy patterns of rest and work can transform your life—your daily influence. Built on more than twenty-five years of experience at the intersection of spiritual formation and leadership development, Unhurried Living seeks to inspire people around the world to rest deeper so they can live fuller and lead better.
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291: Overcoming Hurry Sickness: The Virus of Anxiety (Alan)
April 15, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBI’ve written and said plenty about the problem of hurry in our lives and in our world. There is a condition called hurry sickness, which is the feeling of always being rushed as though you were lagging behind in some race. This raises our stress levels. A sense that we don’t have enough time for everything we have to do is a sign of hurry sickness. We can end up feeling increasing frustration with anyone or anything that gets in the way of what you have to do. Multitasking is one of our stra...
6 Verses to Foster Spiritual Formation (Gem)
April 11, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBFor the last few years I have enjoyed meeting with women in coaching groups or soul care groups. It is such a beautiful and vulnerable way to share our lives. The women who attend are always leaning in toward God and desiring to connect at a deeper level with others. A while back I decided I wanted to share with these women the scriptures that have helped form me. These verses helped me focus on the centrality of God’s love, Jesus and the process of being transformed. I’d like to share t...
289: Working from the Inside Out (Alan w/ Jeff Haanen)
April 08, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBFor too many, work feels tedious, painful, even meaningless. And we don’t seem to know what to do about it. There is a familiar crisis of meaning and of sustainability. You’ve probably heard the alarming statistics: how so many who lost work during the pandemic just aren’t interested in returning to their jobs. We need to find a way out of disintegration so that we can discover how work can be an experience of loving God, serving our neighbors, and living out the good news of God’s king...
288: Unlocking the Power of Transformation (Gem)
April 04, 2024 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.89 MBAs young children its easy to pick up beliefs and behaviors that seem to work for us, but as we move into adulthood, we find that is no longer the case. Today, I’m going to share with you a personal story of how one of my early unhelpful behaviors was transformed by God into something beautiful and useful for me today. _________________________________________________ Follow Gem on Instagram and grab a copy of her new book Hold That Thought. You can also join her in the Replenish Community.
287: The Art of Retreat (Alan)
April 01, 2024 07:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBIn the summer of 2023, I finally got the opportunity to make a retreat at a place I’ve been wanting to visit for years. I drove up to the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California for an eight-day silent retreat. I’ve done week-long retreats before on the East Coast, but never here in California. I’ve been wanting to share the story of my experience of extended retreat here on the podcast. I’m glad to finally get that opportunity today. ___________________________________________...
286: Practicing the Way of Jesus (Alan w/ John Mark Comer)
March 25, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBOne of my mentors often liked to ask a couple of simple questions when we were together: first, “What is the Christian life?” and second, “What is the church?” At first glance, those feel like beginner questions. Of course we know what a Christian is and what church is about. But how many of our assumptions about our life in Christ together look more like being a twenty-first century North American more than an apprentice of Jesus in the here and now of our lives? To what degree are we ...
285: Empowering Women in Leadership (Gem w/ Kimberly Deckel)
March 21, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBWomen have been important leaders throughout church history. There are multiple stories in the Old and New Testaments about the powerful and unique ways women lead. Think Deborah, Ruth, Esther, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Jesus, Phoebe, Priscilla and more. There are the desert mothers, and women such as Julian of Norwich, Clare of Assisi and Teresa of Avila, who have given us wisdom for the ages. Sometimes out in front, sometimes behind the scenes, but always, women have contributed t...
284: Befriending Peace (Alan)
March 18, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBHaving written a book about anxiety, I’ve seen a lot of promises about how to solve it. A life hack here. Six easy steps there. But my own experience with anxiety has been anything but easy. Today, I want to share some of the more unexpected pathways to peace I’ve discovered in my journey. ____________________________________________________ Connect with Alan on LinkedIn or learn more about Unhurried Living programs on their website. Learn more about Unhurried Leaders membership.
283: From Information to Transformation: A Gracious Path to Growth (Gem)
March 14, 2024 07:00 - 9 minutes - 9.15 MBHard. Crusty. Unyielding. Rootless. Shallow. Burning out. Withering. Thorny. Distracted. Choked. Pressed. Good. Healthy. Vibrant. Thriving. What is this list of (mostly disturbing) words I’ve just uttered? Especially when the title of this episode includes, “A Gracious Reflection.” Well, it’s a list that came to mind upon a recent encounter with the Parable of the Sower from Mark 4. I was struck by the inner dynamics described by Jesus. I’ve taken his four types of soil and created so...
282: Creativity and Spiritual Life (Alan with Amy Pierson)
March 11, 2024 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBThe greatest priority in the kingdom of God is simple and straightforward. Love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (Mark 12:30).” That sentence will not surprise a single one of you listening. But, in my own experience of the Christian life, it has often felt like we majored on loving God with our minds over loving God with our souls, or hearts, or physical strength. We’ve often valued the right ideas over the right sort of he...
281: Trust Tested (Gem)
March 07, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 7.66 MBIn Anne Lamott's book, Traveling Mercies, she shares the story that led her to take the leap into her own faith journey. It was the story of Abraham and Isaac that caught her attention. The reality and authenticity of Abraham's belief and trust in God's provision compelled her. It led me to ponder and process that moment in Abraham's life. This is where we’re headed today on the Unhurried Living Podcast. And these are some of the questions we will be addressing: If we place ourselves i...
280: Embodying Peace: How Jesus' Wisdom Can Silence Anxiety (Alan)
March 04, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBSometimes, anxiety rises in my thoughts, emotions, and body as an overwhelming wave. I’m tempted in moments like that to let myself be overcome, whether by allowing anxiety to immobilize me, to chase me away from what God has given me to do, or even to drive me to ways of working that seem to be only thinly aware that God is with me as I work. I’ve been learning that over time that anxiety became embedded in my mind, my emotions, even my body. But I’ve also been learning that the peace of ...
279: Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith (Alan with Bill & Kristi Gaultiere)
February 26, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MBSpiritual growth is often sparked by great love or deep pain. But so much of our world conspires to keep us too busy to feel loved or to pay attention to our deep feelings. We want to grow, but we aren’t always aware of the points at which God is inviting us forward. We need mentors and tools that will help slow us down to notice God with us, and to see where we may be welcoming the grace of God in our lives and where we may be resisting God’s initiative and work. One tool that has help...
278: Faithful Work (Gem with Ross Chapman)
February 22, 2024 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBOne-third of our waking lives is spent at work. Work is where we make culture and come into contact with our world. Work is central to God's mission to redeem souls, systems, and structures. And God works through our work to bring hope to the brokenness of our surrounding culture. The way of Jesus Christ is good news for the world, and that includes the transformation of our ordinary work into a sacred calling. Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski show how work is a way to love God, serve our n...
277: 6 Faces of Anxiety (Alan)
February 19, 2024 08:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBWe’re living in anxious times. I don’t hear anyone saying otherwise. And many feel utterly overwhelmed and powerless against the flood of anxiety that fills our hearts, our minds, our news feeds and our social media communities. Two weeks ago my latest book, A Non-Anxious Life, was released. The more I talk with leaders about soul hurry, the more I realize that a very common variety of it is anxiety. I know anxiety has driven a lot of my own work over the years. That kind of busyness ma...
276: 5 Years of Loss (Gem)
February 15, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MB1990 was a momentous & tragic year for me. Sadly, it was the year my dad passed away. His was a traumatic and life-altering death. I was just 26-years-old. Unfortunately, my dad’s death was just the beginning of a five-year season of loss. So much to experience by one so young. Today, I’ll be sharing with you my journey of loss and how God met me with great grace. Abiding video referenced in episode. ____________________________________________________________ Follow Gem on I...
275: The Spiritual Art of Business (Alan with Barry Rowan)
February 12, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBAt the turn of the century, Billy Graham said, "I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through believers in the workplace.” In the last few years, I’ve witnessed a powerful work of God’s Spirit in and through men and women who are living their faith in their places of business. We are always leaning into the question, “How do I integrate my life of faith and the work of my life? How do I lead from deep-rootedness in God? How do I learn to receive from God all I...
274: One Necessary Focus (Gem)
February 08, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MBI love every part of our church's opening prayer and today I share about the importance of this prayer as well as the multiple sermons that emerge from the truths tucked within. Eternal God, heavenly Father, with great joy we thank you for graciously accepting us as living members of your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, and for feeding us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. Send us now into the world in peace and mission, and grant us strength and courage to love a...
273: A Non-Anxious Life (Alan with Michael John Cusick)
February 05, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB“Anything you could do in anxiety, you could do a lot better in peace.” That’s something Dallas Willard said. And it became one of the seeds that grew into my latest book with InterVarsity Press: A Non-Anxious Life: Experiencing the Peace of God’s Presence. It has been the most personal and most difficult book I’ve written so far. And it releases tomorrow! I wonder what your anxiety has been like over these last few years. I have to admit that this has been one of the most anxiety-prov...
Gem's Back
January 30, 2024 08:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBThere’s one more week until we’re back with the next season of Unhurried conversations at the intersection of spiritual leadership and soul care. And I have great news! Gem is coming back to the Unhurried Living Podcast. We’re talking about this today and we look forward to sharing what’s up with the Unhurried Living Podcast
ICDT 92: Your WAY Matters
January 22, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes - 5.44 MBI want what Jim has. This is the phrase 17-year-old Alan, my husband, uttered as he made one of his first moves into the Christian life. I have always loved hearing Alan share about the first time he went forward in a church to receive Christ. I’ve heard this story multiple times and I’m always struck by how simple and heartfelt Alan’s desire was. We’ll talk more about this today… ______________________________________________________ Follow Gem on Instagram and grab a copy of her new...
ICDT 91: 5 Simple and Soulful Practices
January 08, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 7.53 MBIt’s near the beginning of the calendar year and, for some, it feels like a fresh start. Most of us are long past making resolutions. We’ve come to see that they don’t last and are followed up by shame and guilt. I haven’t made resolutions for years. But I thought it might be good to share with you a few simple ways you could plan for some soul care in an ongoing way. These ideas are bottom shelf and that’s good. It’s always wise to begin small and build habits. I mention a couple re...
ICDT 90: Breathe: A Spiritual Practice
December 18, 2023 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.79 MBBreathing. It’s as natural as, well, breathing. We breathe all day long without giving it a thought. It’s just one of the many astounding aspects of our God-given bodies. I’m grateful for all the processes that continue to keep me healthy and alive, aren’t you? Today, using the word BREATHE, I’m going to guide you in a spiritual practice that you can use in the middle of any given day. We’ll make the unconscious, conscious and give our souls space to breathe. _______________________...
ICDT 89: Engaging World Events Without Being Overwhelmed (Carmen LaBerge)
December 11, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBAlmost everyone I speak with these days is tired or stressed in troubling ways. Not only do we carry our regular burdens and concerns, but we also carry around our knowledge of what is going on in our country and around the globe. While it is true that we cannot psychologically bear up under the weight of all that we see and hear in the information age—we do want to have a basic knowledge of world events. But how do we hold all of this without becoming overwhelmed? How can we be a he...
ICDT 88: Lectio Divina
December 04, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutes - 7.49 MBMany of you have likely heard of a way of engaging scripture called Lectio Divina. It is a kind of “Divine Reading.” What I love about Lectio Divina is that it is a slow and formational way of engaging the bible. It can help us move from our heads to our hearts. Lectio Divina is reflective, meditative, receptive and responsive. Let’s begin with a little Lectio 101, and then I will guide you in the practice as we experience Psalm 73:23-26 together. The four movements of Lectio Divina ar...
ICDT 87: Women, Work and Calling (Gem with Joanna Meyer)
November 27, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBToday I’m talking with Joanna Meyer, the author of the recently released book Women, Work and Calling. No matter what title you have or don’t have, we are all working women. People, tasks, and schedules fill our days and we all have influence in these spheres. How do you respond to God’s calling? How does God grow our soul through our work? How do we tap into our vocational power? Joanna Meyer is director of public engagement at the Denver Institute for Faith & Work, where she...
272: Spiritual Practices for Soul Care (Alan with Barbara Peacock)
November 27, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBOne of our great concerns at Unhurried Living is caring for the souls of leaders. And one of the ways we focus on this is by helping leaders learn to care well for their own souls. It’s too easy to become so busy with work we believe God has given us, but not enjoying the life that God has given us. There are so many good spiritual practices that can help us care well for our souls. That’s why I’m pleased to have Barbara Peacock as our guest today. She is the author of Spiritual Practic...
Spiritual Practices for Soul Care (Barbara Peacock)
November 27, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBOne of our great concerns at Unhurried Living is caring for the souls of leaders. And one of the ways we focus on this is by helping leaders learn to care well for their own souls. It’s too easy to become so busy with work we believe God has given us, but not enjoying the life that God has given us. There are so many good spiritual practices that can help us care well for our souls. That’s why I’m pleased to have Barbara Peacock as our guest today. She is the author of Spiritual Practic...
The Good Work of Soul Rest
November 20, 2023 08:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBToday, I’m sharing the last of four episodes on the theme of rest. If you haven’t listened to the first three, I encourage you to go back. These have been some of the most important episodes I’ve offered in our six-and-a-half years as a podcast. As we continue to navigate so many changes that have come to so many of us in these last few years, I wonder how tired you feel inside. I’m not talking about the sort of tired that a nap would resolve or a good night’s sleep might address. I’m t...
271: The Good Work of Soul Rest
November 20, 2023 08:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBToday, I’m sharing the last of four episodes on the theme of rest. If you haven’t listened to the first three, I encourage you to go back. These have been some of the most important episodes I’ve offered in our six-and-a-half years as a podcast. As we continue to navigate so many changes that have come to so many of us in these last few years, I wonder how tired you feel inside. I’m not talking about the sort of tired that a nap would resolve or a good night’s sleep might address. I’m t...
270: The Second Testament (Alan with Scot McKnight)
November 13, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBI’ve been a reader of the New Testament for forty-five years now. I’m still grateful for the wisdom and life guidance I find in those pages. Checking my current favorite NIV Bible, I realize that the New Testament takes up 225 pages. That’s about the length of many of the books I talk with authors about on this podcast. What I mean to say is that it isn’t as big as I sometimes imagine. And I realize is that I can easily get into habits, even ruts, when it comes to how I understand what I’m ...
The Second Testament (Scot McKnight)
November 13, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBI’ve been a reader of the New Testament for forty-five years now. I’m still grateful for the wisdom and life guidance I find in those pages. Checking my current favorite NIV Bible, I realize that the New Testament takes up 225 pages. That’s about the length of many of the books I talk with authors about on this podcast. What I mean to say is that it isn’t as big as I sometimes imagine. And I realize is that I can easily get into habits, even ruts, when it comes to how I understand what I’m ...
ICDT 86: Living on Two Levels
November 13, 2023 08:00 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBA few years ago I read Thomas Kelly’s A Testament of Devotion. He put into eloquent prose a dynamic that I had experienced, but had not yet found words to describe. There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we may be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs. But deep within, behind the scenes, at a profounder level, we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptivenes...
ICDT 85: Moving Through Transitions
November 06, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes - 5.97 MBTransition. How do you feel when you hear this word? For some, transitions are welcome because it’s a movement from one place to another. For others, transitions are unwelcome for the same reason. Change can be disconcerting. But whatever you feel about transitions, that’s where we’re headed today in our conversation. ______________________________________________________ Follow Gem on Instagram and grab a copy of her new book Hold That Thought. You can also join her in the Replenish...
The Counterfeits of True Rest
November 06, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBThey say that authors often write books that they themselves need. That has certainly been true when it comes to what I’ve written about Jesus’s rhythms of work and rest. I have a deep-seated efficiency and productivity engine inside me. While this has often served me well in my work, it has also gotten in the way when it comes to entering into God’s gift of rest for me. It still feels like a discipline to stop producing and to simply embrace rest. When I do, I experience the grace and ...
269: The Counterfeits of True Rest
November 06, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBThey say that authors often write books that they themselves need. That has certainly been true when it comes to what I’ve written about Jesus’s rhythms of work and rest. I have a deep-seated efficiency and productivity engine inside me. While this has often served me well in my work, it has also gotten in the way when it comes to entering into God’s gift of rest for me. It still feels like a discipline to stop producing and to simply embrace rest. When I do, I experience the grace and ...
ICDT 84: Becoming a Mentor-Like Presence (Gem with Richella Parham)
October 30, 2023 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBToday we're talking about being a mentoring presence, or wise woman, in the lives of others. This really is an encouragement to any woman listening to think of herself as a wise woman in the life of another. The actress, Julia Louis Dreyfus, has a new podcast called “Wiser Than Me.” She is 62 and she interviews women who are older than her. She asks questions so that she can glean life wisdom from other women’s life experiences. So our question today is this: how am I living my life so th...
268: The Free Life in Christ (Alan with Eric Peterson)
October 30, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBI have long been a great appreciator of the writings of Eugene Peterson. I realized recently that one of my first introductions to the idea of an unhurried life was from his book The Contemplative Pastor. I still have my 1989 hardcover edition of that book. It it, he has a chapter in which he invited pastors like me to become an “unbusy pastor.” I’m grateful for a full shelf of his books that have taught and mentored me over the decades. But recently, InterVarsity Press released an expa...
The Free Life in Christ (Eric Peterson)
October 30, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBI have long been a great appreciator of the writings of Eugene Peterson. I realized recently that one of my first introductions to the idea of an unhurried life was from his book The Contemplative Pastor. I still have my 1989 hardcover edition of that book. It it, he has a chapter in which he invited pastors like me to become an “unbusy pastor.” I’m grateful for a full shelf of his books that have taught and mentored me over the decades. But recently, InterVarsity Press released an expa...
267: 7 Reasons We Don't Rest Well
October 23, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBMy first book, An Unhurried Life, which was published over ten years ago, had this as it’s subtitle: “Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest.” Knowing what I know now about our great cultural struggle to rest well, I might have changed that to: “Following Jesus’ Rhythms of Rest and Work. It’s not that rest is more important than work. It’s that real rest is so neglected these days. And many of us are feeling our need for real rest more today than perhaps we ever have. Getting better ...
7 Reasons We Don't Rest Well
October 23, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBMy first book, An Unhurried Life, which was published over ten years ago, had this as it’s subtitle: “Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest.” Knowing what I know now about our great cultural struggle to rest well, I might have changed that to: “Following Jesus’ Rhythms of Rest and Work. It’s not that rest is more important than work. It’s that real rest is so neglected these days. And many of us are feeling our need for real rest more today than perhaps we ever have. Getting better ...
What Jesus Intended (Todd Hunter)
October 16, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBIt’s been nearly 45 years ago that I attended a jazz concert sponsored by a Sacramento area church. I was invited to it by my boss, Jim. I had been working for him for a year or two at the Magic Tunnel Car Wash. It was at that concert that Jim’s life, shaped as it was by his love for Jesus, came to make sense to me. When someone asked me why I’d come forward at the end of the concert, my answer was simply, “I want what Jim has.” It was that simple focus on Jesus in Jim’s life and in tha...
266: What Jesus Intended (Alan with Todd Hunter)
October 16, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBIt’s been nearly 45 years ago that I attended a jazz concert sponsored by a Sacramento area church. I was invited to it by my boss, Jim. I had been working for him for a year or two at the Magic Tunnel Car Wash. It was at that concert that Jim’s life, shaped as it was by his love for Jesus, came to make sense to me. When someone asked me why I’d come forward at the end of the concert, my answer was simply, “I want what Jim has.” It was that simple focus on Jesus in Jim’s life and in tha...
ICDT 83: Traversing Rough Terrain
October 16, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.55 MBAre you now, or have you recently been, in a difficult situation? Most of us have at least one circumstance in our lives, at any given point, that isn’t going the way we had hoped. Today I’m sharing a personal story of climbing a mountain at high elevation. Together, we’ll look at it literally and metaphorically. ______________________________________________________ Follow Gem on Instagram and grab a copy of her new book Hold That Thought. You can also join her in the Replenish Community.
265: Cultivating a Good Rest Ethic
October 09, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThe theme of today’s episode has been fermenting in my thinking and in my rhythm of life for a while now. In fact, I’ll be sharing four episodes this season about rest. Today, I’m going to share some ideas about how exactly might we cultivate a good rest ethic. It’s something with which we’re much less familiar as a culture than a good “work ethic,” but it’s just as important. _________________________________________________________ Connect with Alan on LinkedIn or learn more about Unhur...
Cultivating a Good Rest Ethic
October 09, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThe theme of today’s episode has been fermenting in my thinking and in my rhythm of life for a while now. In fact, I’ll be sharing four episodes this season about rest. Today, I’m going to share some ideas about how exactly might we cultivate a good rest ethic. It’s something with which we’re much less familiar as a culture than a good “work ethic,” but it’s just as important. _________________________________________________________ Connect with Alan on LinkedIn or learn more about Unhur...
264: Faith Like a Child (Alan with Lacy Finn Borgo)
October 02, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBI’ve often been captured by a little line in the gospels. The disciples ask a question that has been burning in their hearts and minds, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” We signs of competition among the disciples, each wanting to prove himself the most faithful or the most gifted. They want to know how they can best get to the top in the eyes of Jesus. I don’t think they’re expecting the answer Jesus gives. He says, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become l...
ICDT 82: 4 Ways to Connect Soulfully to God
October 02, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.55 MBIn preparation for co-leading a pilgrimage for women to Italy last month, I spent some time getting to know St. Catherine of Siena and St. Clare of Assisi. These two female saints were quite formidable in their passion and love for God—and what that meant for their own souls and those around them. In Ilia Delio’s book, Clare of Assisi, I found a snippet Clare wrote in a letter to her sister, Agnes. “O most noble Queen, gaze upon [him]. consider [him]. contemplate [him]. as you d...
Faith Like a Child
October 02, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBI’ve often been captured by a little line in the gospels. The disciples ask a question that has been burning in their hearts and minds, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” We signs of competition among the disciples, each wanting to prove himself the most faithful or the most gifted. They want to know how they can best get to the top in the eyes of Jesus. I don’t think they’re expecting the answer Jesus gives. He says, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become l...
263: The Practice of Leadership Journaling
September 25, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBJournaling is not for everyone. But it is a proven way to process thoughts and emotions. In this episode Alan shares about his long-standing practice of journaling as a leader. He knows not everyone keeps a spiritual journal. This episode is not meant to be a guilt trip if this hasn’t been a practice for you so far. He simply wants to share the benefits of the practice in his own experience to either encourage you in your own present practice, or to invite you to experiment with it. He's...