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

Great to be with you. And our theme today is relax. It's going to be okay. Relax. It's going to be okay.

And there's a couple of things I want to mention here before I launch into our theme is

next month in a month of October, I want to invite you to a unique opportunity to attend

through live stream, a one day emotionally healthy leadership live stream experience,

October 22nd. And as pastors and leaders were facing a future

that unlike any we've had probably in our lifetimes, and we're going to be offering as an experience

of the theology we talk about every week here in the podcast, a four-hour experience and sharing

some critical tools like Jetagram and Sabbath

and what it means to be grounded deeply in Jesus for the long haul

so that you and your team can catch a fresh vision,

the kind of discipleship and leadership development we're going to have to engage in

in the days ahead of us.

So I want to encourage you, check out

our website, Emotionally Healthy.org, to register. The cost is $99 up through September 30th, and check

that out. You'll be well worth your time. And then also I want to continue to invite you to submit

questions and comments for future podcasts to me.

A number of you have done that from the last time I've mentioned it, really appreciated hearing

from you. I'm looking for more of a dialogue than a one-way conversation, and it is really

helpful to hear from you, and I do read all the comments. So that would be fantastic.

But today, let's launch into our theme, which is relax. It's going to be okay. We are living at a time of cascading crises. And the only verse I could think of and that describes the days we're in is when Jesus was talking about the end of the world in Matthew 24, he has one line. He says, these are the beginning of birth pangs.

And he's describing, you know, the end of history when there'll be, you know, earthquakes

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