Hi, my name is Pete Zazzara. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy

Leader Podcast. So good to be with you. Today's topic is Prudence, the lost virtue of great

leadership. Prudence, the lost virtue of great leadership. Now, this theme and text out of Luke chapter 16 has been life transforming

for me over the years and I'm just very excited to share it with you today. Jesus says

in this parable of Luke 16, for the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing

with their own kind than are the children of light.

And he's referring to people of the world who are not Christian, Jesus says, are actually more

shrewd than Christians. And he's given the example of how they're dealing with money in particular,

but it's got broader application than that. So in this message, I do talk about

money, stewardship, and also about prudence or being shrewd. Now, the word prudence is a large word

in scripture, especially in the book of Proverbs, which contrasts those who are simple with those

who are prudent or wise. Simple people are folks who are in

proverbs at least, or naive or easily influenced, untrained, refuse to think or ask hard

questions, don't want to do that kind of hard work, over and against prudent people who are

far-sighted, who are looking way down the road, who are careful and thinking through the future

and good judgment, take everything

into account. And so, again, today in this message, I want to invite you to listen to it around

prudence in particular as it applies to leadership. It's such a critical virtue and character

equality. But at the same time, you're going to get

some help of the process, kind of a window into my own process of teaching stewardship in a local

church as well. So this sermon really is about growing up, growing up mature followers of Jesus,

who are spiritual and emotional adults. And again, in areas that we don't

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