{"title":"Leadership \u0026 Authority","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"leadership-and-emotional-sabotage-resisting-the-anxiety-that-will-wreck-your-family-destroy-your-church-and-ruin-the-world","title":"Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc2302; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 02rem;\"\u003eWho are you when the teeth come out?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eFor every true act of leadership, there is an equal and monstrous act of sabotage.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"Why Children Matter Look Inside the Book Interior Sample\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/G-122.pdf?v=1706221913\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"{\u0026quot;1\u0026quot;:2,\u0026quot;2\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;We tend to think being \\\u0026quot;stressed out\\\u0026quot; is a normal state of affairs, and that contentment means sitting back and just bottling things up. For the Christian, however, contentment is something we must apply, work at, and make our own in every circumstance, because anxiety and frustration are not neutral behaviors.\\nIt is certainly easier to go with our natural impulses when times are very hard or even just \\\u0026quot;annoying,\\\u0026quot; but contentment is an important part of our Christian life. Even the apostle Paul had to \\\u0026quot;learn\\\u0026quot; contentment. So we shouldn't wonder why we're still in spiritual kindergarten—repeating the same lessons over and over again—if we haven't given ourselves to study contentment. Thankfully, every test God gives on contentment is open book (even the pop quizzes!). In Learning Contentment, Nancy Wilson looks to the Bible and Puritans like Jeremiah Burroughs, Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Watson, and Charles Spurgeon to help us develop the practical, spiritual strength and the perspective that comes from contentment's deep satisfaction with the will of God. This encouraging little book follows after Nancy Wilson's Virtuous: A Study for Ladies of Every Age. Learning Contentment includes concise explanations, application questions and assignments that will involve and challenge everyone, and lots of biblical wisdom for individuals and groups.\u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #6fa8dc;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur leaders have been entirely routed by the agitated and the anxious. These emotional tyrannies manifest themselves in local libraries, HR cubicles, elder meetings, and at your Thanksgiving dinners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book Professor Joe Rigney seeks to recover the nerve of old that steadied leaders to make tough calls. The nerve that braces them when sabotage comes--because it will. The nerve that has more fun than its enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheer up, there's no way out but through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCheck out Joe Rigney's supporting video series on Canon Plus \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/canonplus.com\/tabs\/search\/video-series\/27572\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ehere\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nid1_fOVM_4?si=yfiIe-YHk1RhjOZN\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeople Are Saying:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Outstanding...Biblical leadership for the unique cultural moment we’re in. It will challenge you.”~\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eAndrew T. Walker, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan aria-label=\"\" class=\"c-mrkdwn__br\" data-stringify-type=\"paragraph-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Weak leaders often fail by a failure of nerve (especially by fearing to take stands at the risk of displeasing people). In this book Joe explains what a leader should do when people are highly reactive and anxious and combustible—like a gas leak that can explode with just a spark.”~\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan aria-label=\"\" class=\"c-mrkdwn__br\" data-stringify-type=\"paragraph-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eAndy Naselli —Professor of Systematic Theology and New Testament for Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis and one of the pastors of The North Church\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan aria-label=\"\" class=\"c-mrkdwn__br\" data-stringify-type=\"paragraph-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A critical and sobering read for fathers and organizational leaders. With pinpoint accuracy Rigney diagnoses the chaotic ethos of our age and draws from the wellspring of Scriptural wisdom to reintroduce joyful and steadfast leadership in Christ.”~\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eJeremy Tate, CEO of the Classical Learning Test\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In a day when an egalitarian spirit has flattened any respect for authority and the most miserable member is consoled most and considered first by unassuming leaders, \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eLeadership and Emotional Sabotage \u003c\/i\u003eis necessary reading. Senior pastors would do well to read a copy, and they would do better to read this book with their fellow elders, ministers, or church leaders. On the topic of emotional sabotage, this short book by Joe Rigney provides a neon sign that explains much of the inexplicable challenges pastors face in our anxious age. Take up, read, and share.\"\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003e~David Schrock (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), pastor of preaching and theology at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoe Rigney\u003c\/strong\u003e serves as Fellow of Theology at New Saint Andrews College. 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