Declaring the Word of the Lord in Anxious Times
The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
4.8 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In today’s episode, we’re diving into a theme that should resonate with pastors and leaders all around the world. Reflecting on the life and ministry of John the Baptist, we’ll explore how to speak with conviction and clarity amidst a world overwhelmed by fear, information overload, and shifting power structures.
John’s world was much like ours—fraught with political unrest, corrupt leaders, and widespread anxiety. And yet, it was to him, a voice in the wilderness, that God’s Word came. He shows us that real leadership doesn’t come from platforms or applause but from a place of inner surrender, courage, and freedom from people’s approval.
This episode will challenge you to lead with authenticity and to center your life on a slower, deeper spirituality. If you’re feeling called to renew your heart and strengthen your church’s culture in the midst of today’s chaos, join us as we learn from John the Baptist’s powerful, countercultural example.
Listen in to reorient, refocus, and be inspired to become an instrument in God’s hands.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Pete Scuzero. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy |
| 0:10.2 | leader podcast. Our topic today is declaring the word of the Lord in anxious times. |
| 0:17.7 | Declaring the word of the Lord in anxious times. My subtitle is Lessons from John the Baptist. |
| 0:26.7 | So we're coming out of an election cycle here in the United States of America. I'm very aware |
| 0:31.6 | that many of you are listening from all over the world, well over 100 countries. But the |
| 0:37.3 | releveling anxiety raised in the United States |
| 0:39.9 | has definitely risen with the election cycle, and I know it's spread around the world as well. |
| 0:45.1 | But what's important to remember is that anxiety was already here. And I'm not referring |
| 0:50.2 | simply to clinical DSM-5 diagnosed anxiety. I'm referring to just the anxiety in general |
| 0:58.4 | that pervades our culture, this low-level, constant feeling of too much is happening at once. |
| 1:04.3 | I can't keep up with enormous changes happening. Everything from artificial intelligence to |
| 1:10.5 | economic instability to social trends happening, to from artificial intelligence to economic instability to social |
| 1:12.7 | trends happening, to changes in the family, social media demands and information. |
| 1:19.6 | And our lives are just flooded with choices and opportunities and information. |
| 1:23.3 | They bombard us day and night. |
| 1:25.7 | And so our lives are filled with worry and stress and heightened levels of threats and chaos. |
| 1:32.6 | And so it's just that anxiety is part of the global culture right now. |
| 1:38.1 | And it informs everything around us. |
| 1:41.0 | That's why so many folks and even and even us, are angry or tired or |
| 1:44.5 | burnt out, scared. And so what do we do? And how do we lead? And when the world seems out of control, |
| 1:54.0 | because it sure can seem like the world is out of control. And so today, I want to look at the |
| 1:59.0 | context and the person of John the Baptist. |
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