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Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

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Joe Rigney

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Joe Rigney serves as Fellow of Theology at New Saint Andrews College. He is a husband, a father of three, and the author of a number of books, including Things of Earth and Strangely Bright.

AUTHOR: Joe Rigney

BINDING: Hardback

PAGE COUNT: 120 pages

SIZE: 5.5x8.5"

ISBN 10: 1-59128-040-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-59128-040-8

RELEASE DATE: March 5, 2024

Media: Hardback


Who are you when the teeth come out?


For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and monstrous act of sabotage.

Look Inside the Book

Our 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.

In 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.

Cheer up, there's no way out but through.

 

Check out Joe Rigney's supporting video series on Canon Plus here!



People Are Saying:

"Outstanding...Biblical leadership for the unique cultural moment we’re in. It will challenge you.”~Andrew T. Walker, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“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.”~Andy Naselli —Professor of Systematic Theology and New Testament for Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis and one of the pastors of The North Church

“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.”~Jeremy Tate, CEO of the Classical Learning Test

"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, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage is 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."~David Schrock (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), pastor of preaching and theology at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia

Customer Reviews

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Danny S.
Excellent Men's Group Study

This book is so good, we decided to use it for our men's breakfast study. We've also found it to be a valuable resource for some counseling. We're thankful for Dr. Rigney's ministry and for the great resources from Canon Press. Thank you.

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Jeremy F.

Insightful, incisive, witty, succinct, encouraging, biblical. This is a great book to read slowly and would be a great discussion starter with a leadership team.

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Caleb G.

Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

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Jesse S.
A Rare But Engaging and Thoroughly Biblical Treatise on Leadership

Rigney’s approach to leadership and its absence in our culture, church, and families provides a refreshing perspective on a pervasive issue. Although this book is short, it offers a powerful exploration of both the problem and its solution. The premises are sound, and the conclusions and prescriptions are thoroughly Biblical. This is a book that every man—whether young or old, pastor or layman—should have in their library. It is a resource I will continually reference.

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Eric P.

Loved it and bought books to share!

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Amazon C.

This book has taught me a great deal about the psychology of effective leadership. Bravo to Joe! Long live the Moscow Mood!

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Tony a.A.
Great book

A must read for all believers in Christ

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Josh C.
A Must-Read

Rigney, like a true son of Issachar, knows the times and rightly identifies a principle problem, leaders are being manipulated in every sphere emotionally. Not only does he identify the problem, but gives REAL practical solutions. Get several copies for the men in your Church, in your Family, and for any guy you pass in the street.

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Benjamin
Biblical, memorable, engaging, digestible thoughts on leadership

Rigney offers a gem of a book. As a busy dad and pastor, I appreciated how concisely he composed his sections, chapters, and the book itself. I found his ideas to be immediately implementable and solid. Rigney offers a way forward in light of angst, contention, dereliction of duty, and paralysis in a way which works in a variety of sectors--from the home to the workplace to the church to society at large. I've reread the chapter "Courage at Home," and will no doubt reread the whole book again.

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R. L.
A much needed read

I've had the book for a month and I've started my second trip through it. I need what Joe Rigney has to say. I have so very much I need to see the Lord build into my character that one trip through was not enough.

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