Hi, my name is Pete Scuzera. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader podcast.

Great to be with you today. Today our theme is practice Sabbath delight. Practice Sabbath delight.

So I'm doing a series of podcasts here on the emotionally healthy leader.

And again, that came out of, gosh, 26 years of lead pastoring a New Life

Fellowship, but eight years of thought about what really constitutes a leader who we're going to

call now emotionally healthy that leads from the inside out and thus bears fruit in their

planning, decision making, team building, transitions, exercise of power,

etc., etc., etc., etc. But it flows out of a deep inner life. And so the first half of the book is really

about facing your shadow, which was the first one. We face our shadows. We lead out of our marriages,

our singleness. We slow down for and union. And here is the final key

pillar out of which we build a solid inner life is before we go into the outer life. So today is

called practice Sabbath delight. And so as I began making notes on this, I realized that there was no way

I was going to get this into one podcast. And so what I want to do here today is I'm going to give to

you a sermon, a message that I gave a few years ago at the end of a series that we were doing on your work and your calling, a theology of work.

And then I talked about Sabbath and now Sabbath interfaces with our active work life.

And so and then what I want to do is after this foundational week on Sabbath,

and I pray you would listen to this, even if you do Sabbath, that you would allow some of the,

some of the teaching, the biblical material to deepen your understanding and enlarge, perhaps, your practice of Sabbath.

Sabbath is so vast.

I mean, it is a massive topic.

And so then what I want to do next week in this podcast is build on this week and talk about the frequently asked questions, the issues that we face,

everything from being bivocational to the issues of, you know, frequently asked questions.

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