Levi Lusko's Journey Through Grief, Ministry, and an Eye-Opening Midlife Crisis

Greg Laurie Podcast

Greg Laurie

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Levi Lusko takes us through the grief he faced after losing a daughter, what it’s like to be a preacher, and what facing a midlife crisis taught him.

Topics covered:

Greg’s influence on Levi - 0:00
Grief and child loss - 09:32
Learning from loss - 21:45
Having a strong marriage - 31:43
Being a preacher and writer - 35:25
Learning from midlife crisis - 45:14
Reaching young people - 56:43

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0:00.0	You know, there is a very special group of people. I want to introduce you to. They are a group of people
0:06.6	who are passionate about the gospel of Jesus Christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond. Without them,
0:14.2	Harvest Ministries could not even exist. We call them Harvest Partners. There are people who have
0:20.0	chosen to give monthly to harvest to keep the gospel moving forward.
0:24.8	Will you become a harvest partner and help us fulfill the great commission in our lifetime? Let's do this together.
0:32.9	Just go to harvest.org. Well, Levi, thanks for being on my podcast. And I'm trying to remember the
0:39.7	first time we met. Do you remember when that was? Yes. Well, you were touring Calvert of Albuquerque
0:46.4	with Pastor Skip and just walking around. He was showing you like the facilities and you guys came
0:51.1	through the office where all the youth pastors worked. Right. And I was like, oh my gosh, that's great glory.
0:55.2	You know, I was very nervous, but I stood up and met you.
0:57.5	Yeah.
0:58.0	Yeah, and then the next time...
0:59.3	Because your dad actually worked there with Skip, your dad, Chip, who's now with the Lord.
1:04.4	Yep.
1:05.3	So you were kind of, you're a little, kind of a little bit hanging around the church kind of kid or were you involved in ministry at that point so at that point I was the youth pastor okay when I met you there um but I was a hangout in the
1:17.6	church kid you know I used to work in the tape room my job was to that date you duplicate the tape
1:23.3	cassettes and then put the labels on it but it was frantic because pastors skip would finish preaching
1:27.1	there'd be a closing song and announcements and we had only that much time to make all these
1:31.1	tapes, put the labels on. So we pre-make the labels. I remember it well. We had to shut them in the plastic
1:35.2	sleeves. For those that are listening, don't know we're talking about. Back in the day,
1:39.4	everything was on cassette tapes. I was cutting edge technology at what point. And so everybody would want to get a
1:45.9	tape of the message after the service. But it was not easy because there was, you'd have to physically
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