John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church

This podcast is designed to help you lead your organization more effectively.  Pastor John Nuzzo imparts wisdom from experience to help you identify lids in leadership that you may not be able to see, as well as to help you on a personal level to live out the life you are called to live in your everyday life.  God made us to be “needy.”  All of us were designed by God for our intimacy needs to be met in our homes, but when they are not met there, deficits occur.  We place unrealistic expectations on people to meet our needs when only God can meet them.  We carry these deficits into leadership with us, but there is a cure!   By listening to this message, you will discover how to live in freedom in your everyday life so you can lead your team in a healthy way as God called you to lead. 

“In America today, you don’t have to run the race to win; you just have to stay on the track because everyone else will quit!” - John Maxwell.

 Do you feel like quitting? Do you feel like you are alone in ministry?  

 In this conversation between Pastor John and Pastor Chris Marshall, Pastor Chris discusses principles that he implemented to grow his church “overnight in twelve years.” Step-by-step, even with imperfect decision making, poor vision casting, and normal challenges of ministry, Pastor Chris persevered, and God remained faithful and today, Pastor Chris pastors a thriving church of more than 1,000 in a small town of only 1,500. The principles laid out in this podcast provide a framework for multiplication, regardless of the current size of your church. Be encouraged. The time to expand the size of your church is now, and the steps you need to do that are simple and effective.  Get ready to explode and advance the Kingdom of God.  

What could make you better as a pastor? What could make your church more effective? What can you do to “move the needle” in your church?

When Pastor Nuzzo had the opportunity to meet with Chris Hodges to glean wisdom from him, he learned steps that were profoundly practical and easy for any pastor to implement. Pastors often try to do so much that they are not clear about why they do what they do. Listening to this podcast will help you to narrow your focus, prioritize what is most important, and create a culture of language where everybody is saying the same thing (1 Cor. 1:10). Discover how Pastor Nuzzo integrated these concepts from Pastor Hodges into Victory Family Church and dramatically increased the attendance of weekend services. Any pastor who applies these concepts can receive amazing results—and it will be the easiest thing you have ever done to increase your church’s effectiveness. 

Have you experienced hurt or pain that is paralyzing you? Are you stuck in a cycle of hopelessness? Have you isolated yourself from others due to fear of what others will think?

 If these questions arouse your curiosity, you must listen to this podcast. Pastor John shares, both from personal experience and biblical examples, stories of leaders who isolated themselves needlessly because of personal pain and hurt. Have you allowed yourself to be caught in this trap as a leader?

 As a leader, it is not optional to find others that you can trust. Even Jesus needed people, as He so passionately states in the Garden when he asked His disciples to stay with Him. He was honest!

Open your heart. Receive God’s grace from others, and the shadows of yesterday will no longer forecast your future! Find true freedom from whatever your pain or hurt may be beginning today.

Is there a place for women in leadership in the church? How can I lead as a woman and honor the men in leadership? How do I open our church to become multicultural?

If you have ever asked yourself these questions or thought about these things, this podcast is for you.  This inspiring conversation between Colleen Rouse and Pastor John Nuzzo will enlighten you and encourage you as a leader whether you are male or female.  Colleen shares how she had to reconcile biblically that she had a calling and a right to lead as a woman alongside her husband when there were few women in leadership.  She discusses with Pastor John why she and her husband were compelled to bring in all nations to their church and how they have become perhaps the largest multicultural church in the history of our nation.  Colleen’s insight is practical and will raise your level of leadership, regardless of your years of experience.

We have entered in to a season in our nation where culture is becoming very important to people—especially the next generation.  Our nation is changing demographically, but the church is not changing with it and adapting to it.  In this conversation between Pastor John Nuzzo and Dennis Rouse, Pastor Rouse discusses how his church has become one of the largest multi-cultural churches in the nation.  Birthed out of a “holy discontent” to love like Christ loved and have a Kingdom mindset rather than an earthly mindset, Dennis and his wife Colleen decided to passionately pursue what God placed in their hearts and then took steps to minister to people of all races and cultures. 

What is God stirring in your heart that you want to see changed in society?  As you listen to this podcast, you will discover your next steps to making that become a reality.  

 Want even more great teaching from Dennis Rouse? Check out his book “10 Qualities That Move You from a Believer to a Disciple,” view his special teaching for the staff of Victory Family Church, and watch his additional Q&A session.

If you are a pastor who has children, listen in! During this podcast, Pastor John Nuzzo and his daughter, Cianna, hold a candid discussion about Cianna’s experience as a pastor’s kid. She openly and honestly shares from her heart the benefits and struggles of being a “PK” and gives wise counsel to both pastors and their children. It is time to become aware of what your child may be going through and set boundaries that will define who your child will become and how they will feel about God and church.

 Learn from someone who has experienced the struggles and the great benefits of being a PK and be intentional about making the necessary changes today! As Cianna says, “People are flawed, but God is not.” Open a conversation with your child, no matter what age, and follow the advice of this wise 23-year-old and her father before it’s too late.

In part two of Pastor Diego Mesa’s amazing story of God’s healing power after a literal death sentence of cancer, Pastor Diego shares points of wisdom that all of us can glean from. We all have lids in our lives, but how do we push through those lids, whether they are physical, emotional, or relational? What do we need to change in our lives to be the best we can be for our God, for ourselves, for our families, for our church?

 No matter what our struggle, through God’s grace and strength we can do all things.  God will not waste what we are going through.  He will use it for a purpose, for a story, for a dream, and for a future to reach more people for Christ.  Let’s dream again.  

What does the phrase “trusting and believing God” really mean? If you received a death sentence today, do you have what it takes to receive your healing?

 In this powerful conversation between Pastors John Nuzzo and Diego Mesa, Diego shares his testimony of the healing power of God in his life.  During the most prosperous and successful time in his life, Diego received a report of stage 4 kidney cancer with a death sentence.  Ten years later, Diego explains the practical steps he took to receive the manifestation of his complete healing.  Glory to God!  Learn how to align yourself to the provisions God has already provided for you to be victorious in every area of life. 

Are you dominated by the grace of God upon your life or by circumstances and the culture? Are you haunted by mistakes from your past that scream to you that “you are not enough” or that you are not qualified to do what God has called you to do?

 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV) says, “And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’  Therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

 This message on how to be dominated by God’s grace inspired Pastor John and profoundly impacted his ministry and life.  Understanding this aspect of grace gave Pastor John the strength to step into the things that God called him to do—even when it all seemed impossible.  Pastor John gives examples from his own life and ministry of 35 years that prove that “God’s grace is sufficient,” and nothing is impossible when we depend upon God.    Discover how the walls of impossibility can be torn down in your life!  Learn how to overcome the temptation to stay in the “Corinths” of your lives and move forward to grow God’s Kingdom.