Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 134 - The Responsibilities and tests of Leadership - compassion, indignation, and sorrow.

Announcements / opening prayer:

The test of failure in leadership. All fail, it is not the failure but how we respond to it that makes leaders of us.

This does not condone failure but simply states its reality. Peter looked as if his leadership potential was fully crushed when he denied the Lord, but it was not. But to be a leader he had to first get over his guilt and move on following the Lord.

A leader cannot be...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 133 - The Responsibilities and tests of Leadership; 2Co 11:28; Exo 8-10.

Announcements / opening prayer:

George S. Patton takes off his helmet as he enters the century-old Catholic chapel. Though Episcopalian, he is in need of a place to worship. The sound of his footsteps echoes off the stone

floor as he walks reverently to the foot of the altar. The scent of melting wax from the many votive candles fills the small chamber. Patton kneels, unfolding the prayer he has written for this occasion,

and bows his head.

"Sir, this is Patton talking," he says, speaking candidly to the Almighty. "The past fourteen days have been straight hell. Rain, snow, more rain, more snow - and I am beginning to wonder what's going on in Your...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 132 - The Cost of Leadership; 2Sa 16:5-14.

Announcements / opening prayer:

9. The Cost of Leadership. The toll of leadership is heavy, to aspire to it is to be willing to pay a higher price than the common man.

The cost of leadership is criticism. Humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.

We can take a great lesson from David when he was greatly humbled by the Lord and suffered the loss of his kingdom to his son Absalom. Though it is a part of the discipline that was promised to David's...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 131 - The Cost of Leadership; 2Co 4:11-18; Gal 6:9; 2Sa 16:5-14.

Announcements / opening prayer:

9. The Cost of Leadership. The toll of leadership is heavy, to aspire to it is to be willing to pay a higher price than the common man.

The cost of leadership is often fatigue, but the spiritual leader knows from where his storehouse of energy comes.

Again:

2Co 4:11 For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

2Co 4:12 So death works in us, but life in you.

The key to victory in the midst of the affliction of fatigue is...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 130 - The Cost of Leadership; Gal 6:17.

Announcements / opening prayer:

9. The Cost of Leadership. The toll of leadership is heavy, to aspire to it is to be willing to pay a higher price than the common man.

The cost of leadership is not paid in one lump sum but over a lifetime of living under the Master's master principle. We cannot save others and save ourselves at the same time.

The leader must pick up his cross and follow Christ as all other Christians are called to do, yet his cross cannot be thrown aside and still effectively lead. Any reversionism in his life will affect those he leads.

All the heroes of the Bible were called to sacrifice and service and they each knew that it was the call from God to do...

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