530. The Tyranny of Empathy W/ Joe Rigney

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Our generation is being led by the loudest, not the strongest. Emotional sabotage is happening everywhere — in your workplace, your church, even at your dinner table. And most leaders today? They fold under pressure. But what if you had the nerve to stand firm — and even enjoy the fight? Today on the show, we sit down with Professor Joe Rigney, author of Leadership and Emotional Sabotage, to talk about the courage, clarity, and conviction needed to lead well — especially when the sabotage comes… because it will. Check out Joe's book... https://canonpress.com/products/leadership-and-emotional-sabotage-resisting-the-anxiety-that-will-wreck-your-family-destroy-your-church-and-ruin-the-world?srsltid=AfmBOorIB6Vlndj9Q0FHk2Oe7xFxzF2rG8RyIYoXidm_hXpZKgJyxh4R

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0:36.8	they ought not to have crucified Jesus in the public square.
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0:43.3	I would say, what's the problem with star dust bumping into star dust?
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1:22.8	I'm sorry, my friends, but I am tired seeing Jesus presented as a weak beggar.
1:30.3	He is a powerful Savior, and the gospel is not a suggestion. It is a command.
1:32.3	Mr. Romola, don't you sympathize with that?
1:39.3	I sympathize with every single human heart wishing to know the one true and living God, but I believe there's only one way that that can happen through Jesus Christ,
1:47.0	and the gospel is about repenting of sin, not celebrating it.
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