CNLP 555: John Mark Comer on The Sabbatical as a Hospital, How Stepping Down from Church Leadership Impacts Identity, The Secret Life of Trees, and Why Attending a Church After You've Led One Can Be So Hard

John Mark Comer returns to the podcast to debrief his year-long Sabbatical after leaving Bridgetown Church as Lead Pastor, how stepping down from day to to day church leadership impacted his identity, why ministry is harder than it needs to be, the secret life of trees, and why attending a church after you’ve led one can be so hard.

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What Do You Do With Your Wounds, Pastor?

Practicing the Way

Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace By John Mark Comer

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World By John Mark Comer

God Has a Name By John Mark Comer

Other Books By John Mark Comer

CNLP 316: John Mark Comer on Secular Salvation, Post-Christian America and How to Ruthlessly Eliminate Hurry from Your Life

CNLP 440: John Mark Comer on Why We Believe Lies About Freedom, Sex, Truth and Culture, How the Left and the Right Fail, and the Way Forward for the Church

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World By Peter Wohlleben

CNLP 537: Tyler Staton on the Transition Between John Mark Comer and Him at Bridgetown, 3 Kinds of Biblical Discernment, and Why Prayer is More Important than Sermon Preparation

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Quotes from Episode 555

There's just such a danger in having your spiritual life on display. @johnmarkcomer Click To Tweet In ministry, you just accrue wounds and that's part of the job. That's not a sign that something has gone wrong. It's a sign that something has gone right, it's the holy wound. @johnmarkcomer Click To Tweet The older you get, the less of a victim you realize you are and the more of a perpetrator. @johnmarkcomer Click To Tweet We have to find the goodness of God in our actual life. You know the actual life that we have, not the life that we wish we had. @johnmarkcomer Click To Tweet

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