Among You Stands One You Do Not Know: A Christmas Reflection

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this special Christmas reflection, Pete Scazzero unpacks the powerful words of John the Baptist: “Among you stands one you do not know” (John 1:26). As we rush through the demands of the season, it’s easy to overlook the quiet, hidden ways God reveals Himself—in the ordinary, the painful, and even the mundane.

Pete invites us to slow down and embrace the mystery of God’s presence in unexpected places. From a scandalous birth in a dirty manger to a hidden life in a carpenter’s shop, Jesus’ arrival defies human expectations. What if the very moments we overlook are the places where God stands closest?

Through poignant stories and timeless truths, Pete challenges us to stop, be silent, and listen. You’ll learn practical ways to cultivate attentiveness in your life and leadership, discover God in life’s interruptions, and open your heart to His transforming presence—even when it doesn’t come as you expect.

Don’t miss this opportunity to reflect deeply and encounter Jesus in new, surprising ways this Christmas. Listen now.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro.
0:11.9	I want to welcome you today, the emotionally healthy leader podcast.
0:15.9	Today, our theme is, among you stands one whom you do not know. Among you stands one whom you do not
0:23.8	known. Today is a devotional reflection in honor of Christmas and as we approach the new year
0:31.4	here today. So but before I begin in this amazing text out of John chapter one, one that's rarely
0:37.2	spoken about, especially in a season
0:40.9	like today, the holidays, which is one of the most difficult times to actually be attentive
0:46.0	to Jesus. I have always found historically that Christmas is one of the most challenging
0:53.1	times of the year to actually be discerning and
0:55.7	present to the presence of Jesus with me, between all the hurry, the additional commitments with
1:01.8	family and friends and church and ministry and all that. It's just so easy to miss Jesus,
1:07.3	who is standing right there in our midst and be attentive to him who's attentive to us.
1:12.0	But before I launch into this great text, I want to invite you again to prayerfully consider
1:17.8	joining us in our end of the year giving initiative that we're calling from mustard seed to movement.
1:24.0	We've been amazed and many of you have been a part of this, how emotionally healthy discipleship or emotionally healthy leader has grown over these years from a mustard sheet, actually to a global movement.
1:36.5	And today we're asking you to join us to prayerfully consider making an end of the year gift to help us expand and sustain this ministry around the world. Just go to
1:46.3	emotionally healthy.org slash give. And you'll see some pamphlets, some information about this
1:53.9	end of the year initiative and the impact it's having, E.H. Discipleship's having around the world.
1:59.2	And so it's going to go to build infrastructure, for example, to help churches and ministries, again, around the globe, connect with each other
2:05.7	in a way that we've not been able to up to this point. We'll be expanding what we call
2:10.5	the emotionally healthy spirituality and emotion-threaty relationships course around the world as well.
2:15.7	Again, connecting churches and the school of
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