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A road map for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative.

Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was the pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do--avoid conflict in the name of Christianity; ignore his anger, sadness, and fear; use God to run from God; and live without boundaries.

Eventually God awakened him to a biblical integration of emotional health and the spiritual practice of slowing down and quieting your life for to experience a firsthand relationship with Jesus. It created nothing short of a spiritual revolution in Scazzero, in his church, and now in thousands of other churches.

In this updated edition, Scazzero shares new stories and principles as he outlines his journey and the signs of emotionally unhealthy spirituality. Then he provides seven biblical, reality-tested steps to become emotionally mature:

• Become your authentic self
• Break the power of the past
• Let go of power and control
• Surrender to your limits
• Stop to breathe by practicing rest and Sabbath
• Learn new skills to love well
• Love Christ above all else

Plus, check out the full line of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality books dedicated to many different key areas of life. Workbooks, study guides, curriculum, and Spanish editions are also available.

Becoming a Better Leader Starts with a Transformed Inner Life

Do you feel too overwhelmed to enjoy life, unable to sort out the demands on your time? Are you doing your best work as a leader, yet not making an impact? Have you ever felt stuck, powerless to change your environment?

In The Emotionally Healthy Leader, bestselling author Peter Scazzero shows leaders how to develop a deep, inner life with Christ, examining its profound implications for surviving stress, planning and decision making, building teams, creating healthy culture, influencing others, and much more.

The Emotionally Healthy Leader contains:

• Concise assessments for leaders and teams to measure their leadership health
• Practical, proven strategies that have been developed over a 28-year period spent both in the local church and in equipping leaders around the world
• Helpful applications of how to face your shadow, lead out of your marriage or singleness, slow down, and embrace endings for new beginnings

Going beyond simply offering a quick fix or new technique, The Emotionally Healthy Leader gets to the core, beneath-the-surface issues of uniquely Christian leadership. This book is more than just a book you will read; it is a resource you will come back to over and over again.

The global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here's how we move forward into transformative discipleship...

Pastors and church leaders want to see lives changed by the gospel. They work tirelessly to care for people, initiate new ministries, preach creatively, and keep up with trends. Sadly, much of this effort does not result in deeply changed disciples.

Traditional discipleship strategies fail because they only address surface issues and do not go deep enough into the emotional health of individuals.

But transformative, emotionally healthy discipleship is a methods-based biblical theology that, when fully implemented, informs every area of a church, ministry, or organization. It is a discipleship structure built from the center that:

• Slows down our lives so we can cultivate a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.
• Challenges the values of Western culture that have compromised the radical call to follow the crucified Jesus.
• Integrates sadness, loss, and vulnerability, that, when left out, leave people defensive and easily triggered.
• Acknowledges God's gift of limits in our lives.
• Connects how our family and personal history influence our discipleship in the present.
• Measures our spiritual maturity by how we are growing in our ability to love others.

In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, bestselling author Pete Scazzero takes leaders step-by-step through how to create an emotionally healthy culture and multiply deeply-changed people in every aspect of church life, including:

• Leadership and team development
• Marriage and single ministry
• Small groups and youth and children's ministry
• Preaching, worship, and administration
• Outreach

Complete with assessments and practical strategies, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship will help you move people to the beneath-the-surface discipleship that actually has the power to change the world.

**Winner of the 2022 ECPA Christian Book Award for Ministry Resources**

Based on his bestselling book Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, this 40-day devotional by Peter Scazzero is your guide to more intentional, meaningful, life-changing communion with God.

We all struggle to find daily time to be with God for the nourishment of our souls. This groundbreaking devotional is your key to resting fully in the awareness of his presence, increasing your self-knowledge, and growing deeper, closer to God.

Each day, Peter Scazzero invites you to the ancient and yet powerful spiritual discipline of the Daily Office, the practice of pausing morning and evening to reflect on God's work in your life.

In the midst of the hustle, we have to create interludes to re-center our hearts on the presence of God. For eight weeks, each morning and evening devotional will help you create that much-needed space for silence and reflection. You will be encouraged with thoughtful readings and questions to consider. And after each a closing prayer, you'll return to your day with a renewed sense of purpose and peace. This devotional is drawn from the bestselling book Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and can be read as a companion book or enjoyed on its own.

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day will anchor your life on the invitation to love God with all your heart, mind, and strength. In this guided journey, you'll discover the spiritual nourishment, joy, and peace that comes from meeting with God every day.

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day is also available in Spanish, Espiritualidad emocionalmente sana Día a día.

In the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Workbook, Peter Scazzero outlines a roadmap for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. He unveils what's wrong with our current definition of "spiritual growth" and offers not only a model of spirituality that actually works, but seven steps to change that will help you experience authentic faith and hunger for God. 

Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.Though he was an experienced pastor of a growing church, his life and faith remained emotionally unhealthy. Like so many in the church, he routinely: 

• Avoided healthy conflict in the name of keeping the peace.
• Ignored and suppressed emotions.
• Used work for God as an excuse to run from God.
• Lived without setting healthy limits or boundaries.

Peter will help you unpack core biblical principles to guide you into an experience of lasting transformation in your relationship with Christ. The workbook includes session introductions, group discussion questions, application, and between session personal study. 

This workbook is part of the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Course that also includes the bestselling book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. Begin a powerful journey that will change forever the way you love God, others, and yourself.  

Sessions include: 

1. The Problem of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality 
2. Know Yourself That You May Know God 
3. Going Back in Order to Go Forward 
4. Journey through the Wall 
5. Enlarge Your Soul through Grief and Loss 
6. Discover the Rhythms of the Daily Office and Sabbath 
7. Grow into an Emotionally Mature Adult  
8. Go the Next Step to Develop a “Rule of Life”  

Designed for use with the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book (9780310348450) and the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day book (9780310351665), each sold separately.

Pete and Geri Scazzero developed the Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course over a 21-year period to directly address core biblical principles to guide you and others into an experience of discipleship that will deeply change your life. In the EH Relationships Course, everyone will learn 8 practical relationship skills to develop mature, loving relationships with others such as: 

• Stop Mind Reading and Clarify Expectations 
• Incarnational Listening 
• Climb the Ladder of Integrity 
• Clean Fighting 

And since loving others and loving God cannot be separated, each person will also grow in their personal, first-hand relationship with Jesus by incorporating stillness, silence, and Scripture as daily life rhythms. This is Part 2 of the Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Course that also includes the Emotionally Healthy Relationships video and the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Day by Day devotional. 

This workbook includes:

• Individual access to eight streaming video sessions
• Session introductions, group discussion questions, and personal action steps
• Between-sessions personal study
• Leader’s Guide and valuable appendices

Join us for a powerful journey that will walk you through a door that will change forever the way you love God, others, and yourself.

SESSIONS INCLUDE: 

1. Take Your Community Temperature Reading
2. Stop Mind Reading and Clarify Expectations
3. Genogram Your Family
4. Explore the Iceberg
5. Listen Incarnationally
6. Climb the Ladder of Integrity
7. Fight Cleanly
8. Develop a "Rule of Life" to Implement Emotionally Healthy Skills

Designed for use with Emotionally Healthy Relationships Video Study, Updated Edition (sold separately).

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Part of the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book collection, this 40-day devotional by Peter Scazzero will help you nurture the kind of healthy relationships you long for.

Emotionally Healthy Relationships Day by Day--just like its sister devotional, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day--is your invitation into the ancient yet powerful discipline of the Daily Office, the practice of pausing morning and evening to reflect on God's work in your life.

Each devotional will reflect on emotionally healthy relational themes, such as:

• Clarifying expectations
• Deep listening
• Clean fighting
• And more

You'll will be ushered into a transformational practice that will deepen your daily walk with Jesus, and along the way, you'll discover the spiritual nourishment, joy, and peace that comes from meeting with him every day.

Emotionally Healthy Relationships Day by Day is also available in Spanish, Relaciones emocionalmente sanas Día a día.

"In this new edition of his Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Peter Scazzero shares powerful insights on how contemplative spirituality can help pastors and individual church member slow down—an integral key to spiritual and emotional health . Sharing from the painful but liberating journey of his own church, Scazzero reveals exactly how the truth can and does make people free—not just superficially, but deep down. This expanded edition of The Emotionally Healthy Church not only takes the six principles described in the original book further and deeper, but adds a crucial seventh principle. • Principle 1: Look Beneath the Surface • Principle 2: Break the Power of the Past • Principle 3: Live in Brokenness and Vulnerability • Principle 4: Receive the Gift of Limits • Principle 5: Embrace Grieving and Loss • Principle 6: Make Incarnation Your Model for Loving Well • Principle 7: Slow Down to Lead with Integrity "

Have you ever wondered why we recycle the same problems in the church year after year? Broken relationships, unresolved conflicts, inability to speak the truth, pretending things are fine because we’re concerned about being nice. Week after week we hear sermons about loving better, but little changes in people’s lives. 

We spend a lot of money to learn, and become competent in, our careers, but few of us have learned the skills or gained the competency to love well.  

It’s been rightly said that 85 percent of Christians are stuck, stagnant in their spiritual lives. Most discipleship approaches do not include the necessary tools to mature us as followers of Jesus Christ who love God, ourselves, and others well.  

Pete and Geri Scazzero developed The Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course over a 21-year period to directly address core biblical principles to guide you and others into an experience of discipleship that will deeply change your life. In the EH Relationships Course, you will learn 8 practical relationship skills to develop mature, loving relationships with others.   

1. Take Your Community Temperature Reading 
2. Stop Mind Reading and Clarify Expectations 
3. Genogram Your Family 
4. Explore the Iceberg 
5. Listen Incarnationally 
6. Climb the Ladder of Integrity 
7. Fight Cleanly 
8. Develop a “Rule of Life” to Implement Emotionally Healthy Skills  

And since loving others and loving God cannot be separated, you will also grow in your personal, first-hand relationships with Jesus by incorporating stillness, silence, and Scripture as daily life rhythms. 

This workbook includes sessions introductions, group discussion questions, personal action steps, and between the sessions personal study.  

This powerful journey that will walk you through a door that will change forever the way you love God, others, and yourself. 

Designed for use with the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Video Study (9780310081937), sold separately. It is part of the Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course that also includes the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Day by Day devotional (9780310349594). 

After almost three decades of pastoring New Life Fellowship Church in the bustle of New York City, Peter Scazzero discovered that most people are missing the deep emotional change that can happen in their walk with Jesus.

Scazzero found two truths to be true: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature, and unless you slow and quiet your life down for a direct relationship with Jesus Christ, little change is possible. The integration of these two truths unleashed a spiritual revolution in Scazzero, in his church, and now in thousands of other churches.

In this booklet based on his bestselling book Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Scazzero helps readers identify the top ten symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality and what they can do about them. He includes an assessment for readers to take to find out how emotionally healthy they really are and seven devotions to lead them on the journey to health.

La iglesia mundial se enfrenta a una crisis de discipulado. Esta es la manera en cómo avanzar.

Los pastores y líderes de las iglesias quieren ver vidas transformadas por el evangelio. Trabajan incansablemente para atender a las personas, iniciar nuevos ministerios, predicar de forma creativa y mantenerse al día con las tendencias. Lamentablemente, muchos de esos esfuerzos no dan como resultado discípulos profundamente transformados.

Las estrategias tradicionales de discipulado fracasan porque no se comprometen a:

• Reducir el ritmo de vida de las personas para que puedan cultivar una relación profunda y personal con Jesús.
• Desafiar los valores de la cultura occidental que han comprometido la llamada radical a seguir al Jesús crucificado.
• Integrar la tristeza, la pérdida y la vulnerabilidad, dejando a la gente a la defensiva y fácilmente desencadenada.
• Medir nuestra madurez espiritual por cómo estamos creciendo en nuestra capacidad de amar a los demás.

En Discipulado emocionalmente sano, el exitoso autor Pete Scazzero expone cómo crear una cultura emocionalmente sana y multiplicar a personas profundamente transformadas en cada aspecto de la vida de la iglesia, incluyendo el liderazgo y el desarrollo de equipo, el matrimonio y el ministerio de solteros, los grupos pequeños, la predicación, la adoración, el ministerio de jóvenes y niños, la administración y el evangelismo a los no creyentes.

Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

The global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here is how we move forward.

Pastors and church leaders want to see lives changed by the gospel. They work tirelessly to care for people, initiate new ministries, preach creatively, and keep up with trends. Sadly, much of this effort does not result in deeply changed disciples.

Traditional discipleship strategies fail because they do not:

• Slow down people's lives so they can cultivate a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.
• Challenge the values of Western culture that have compromised the radical call to follow the crucified Jesus.
• Integrate sadness, loss, and vulnerability, leaving people defensive and easily triggered.
• Measure our spiritual maturity by how we are growing in our ability to love others.

In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, bestselling author Pete Scazzero lays out how to create an emotionally healthy culture and multiply deeply changed people in every aspect of church life—including leadership and team development, marriage and single ministry, small groups, preaching, worship, youth and children's ministry, administration, and outreach.

Complete with assessments and practical strategies, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship will help you move people to the beneath-the-surface discipleship that has the power to change the world.