Tuesday’s Influence Online Articles


Today, over at InfluenceMagazine.com: Kristi Northup offers advice from hard-won experience about how to respond when crisis hits ministry families. I interview Peter Scazzero about emotionally healthy relationships. We note a Barna Group research finding that nearly half of pastors … Continue reading Tuesday’s Influence Online Articles

Review of ‘The Emotionally Healthy Leader’ by Peter Scazzero


Peter Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015). Hardcover | Kindle In 1993, I quit my job as an associate pastor before my senior pastor could fire me. I hadn’t begun teaching heterodox doctrine or engaged in a sexual affair or some other moral failure. No, I had vociferously challenged the “seeker-sensitive” direction he was taking the church. As a 24-year-old seminary student, I felt I knew a lot more about ministry than my pastor did, and I wasn’t hesitant to download my … Continue reading Review of ‘The Emotionally Healthy Leader’ by Peter Scazzero