SHOW NOTES Embracing the Supernatural, pt4 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 171 We are going to jump right in where we left off last week. This is week 4 of our Embracing the Supernatural series where we have been talking about Elijah. I encourage you to go back and listen to the first three parts if you missed them. When we pick up the story in 1 Kings, the prophets of Baal have already cut themselves and rolled around, and Elijah has mocked them. Elijah is rea

SHOW NOTES Embracing the Supernatural, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 170 God initiates some miracles. God has partners in His miracles. We see the manifestation of those miracles, but God is also always seeding the ground and doing something behind the scenes as well. We pick up the miracle with Elijah confronting the prophets of Baal (which was not his idea, but something God told him to do). 1 Kings 18:21 Elijah came near to all the people and said, “Ho

Embracing the Supernatural, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 169 Last week we talked about the 4 connected miracles under Elijah’s ministry in 1 Kings 17. Now let’s pick up the story in chapter 18… 1 Kings 18:1 Now it happened after many days… There were about 1,000 days that had passed, and Elijah had been on the run. His circumstances aren’t great, even though he has seen the hand of God with supernatural manifestations. In the middle of the supernatural o

SHOW NOTES Embracing the Supernatural, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 168 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” Here we have the beginning of four miracles that are connected: Elijah calls for a drought, and the drought begins to happen. The Lord directs him to go into the w

SHOW NOTES Lessons Learned, pt7 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 167 Lesson #1: Anger is a manifestation of selfishness. Lesson #2: Slow down. Lesson #3: Become a listener. Lesson #4: Be a giver. Lesson #5: Always be submitted. Lesson #6: Cherish people. Lesson #7: Follow and feed your convictions. We should all have biblical convictions. We should also have deep and abiding personal convictions that we do not make dogma to other people. Hebrews reminds us to se

SHOW NOTES Lessons Learned, pt6 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 166 Lesson #1: Anger is a manifestation of selfishness. Lesson #2: Slow down. Lesson #3: Become a listener. Lesson #4: Be a giver. Lesson #5: Always be submitted. Lesson #6: Cherish people. You can cherish people in your heart and mind and not do a good job of walking it out. Growing up we moved around a lot. I attended many different schools. I never had life-long friends or people I grew up with.

SHOW NOTES Lessons Learned, pt5 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 165 Lesson #1: Anger is a manifestation of selfishness. Lesson #2: Slow down. Lesson #3: Become a listener. Lesson #4: Be a giver. Lesson #5: Always be submitted. Can you look in the mirror and honestly say to yourself that you are submitted to someone? Submission is not total obedience. Submission is total consideration, in the context of human submission. (Submission to the Lord IS total obedienc

SHOW NOTES Lessons Learned, pt4 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 164 Lesson #1: Anger is a manifestation of selfishness. Lesson #2: Slow down. Lesson #3: Become a listener. Lesson #4: Be a giver. There are two types of people in this world—givers and takers. There are people who look at their life and say, “I have something to give,” while others say, “You owe me something.” The latter is entitlement. There is as much entitlement in the church, as there is in th

SHOW NOTES Lessons Learned, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 163 Lesson #1: Anger is a manifestation of selfishness. Lesson #2: Slow down. Lesson #3: Become a listener. Most Type A leaders are people who are fixers by nature. I am one. We are motivated to fix things. We like people and love people, and when we see brokenness in them, we want to figure out a way to fix that. We look at the world as broken and needing to be fixed, and we want to do something a

SHOW NOTES Lessons Learned, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 162 Lesson #1: Anger is a manifestation of selfishness. Lesson #2: Slow down. I was never good at taking a break. Mainly because I was always a pretty high energy person. I would rather do something than sit around and do nothing. I like staying engaged. The problem with that is that you think everyone is on that same level. One of the mistakes I made was equating that energy level with being right

SHOW NOTES Lessons Learned, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 161 Lesson #1: Anger is a manifestation of selfishness. Growing up, I had a severe anger and rage problem. I moved around a lot and was in a lot of different schools. I learned how to fight. I learned that anger could be a great tool of intimidation and could fire your emotions to do things that were outside your ability and character. When I was born again, there was a peace that came upon my life

SHOW NOTES The Leadership of Moses, pt10 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 160 Moses understood that his calling was sacred. Everyone is called. Everyone has a place and position on the wall in the body of Christ. Everyone has a voice to the world. We might have different gifts, but we have the same Lord. We might have a difference of administration but the same spirit. You don’t have to be an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, or teacher to know that you are

SHOW NOTES The Leadership of Moses, pt9 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 159 Moses was not afraid to teach people about the consequences of sin. In many churches, the emphasis on sin is that God forgives your sin. That is a wonderful truth, but there are consequences, even to forgiven sin. If you rob a bank and you ask God to forgive you, He will, but you are probably going to go to jail. Sin has consequences. One of the reasons that sin has consequences is that

SHOW NOTES The Leadership of Moses, pt8 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 158 All great leaders move in faith. All great leaders have vision. All great leaders understand that they have to operate over their heads. You will never be able to call people to do extraordinary things if you only operate ordinarily. The other side of that is knowing your limits and being clear about them. You don’t have to be a five-talent person to be used mightily by God. Numbers 11:

SHOW NOTES The Leadership of Moses, pt7 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 156 Numbers 14:4-8 So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.” Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel. Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, sayin

The Leadership of Moses, pt6 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 156 Numbers 10:2-4 Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out. When both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting. Yet if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you.

The Leadership of Moses, pt5 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 155 There is a conflict between listening to people and hearing from God. Listening to them and hearing from Him—where does that tension begin and where does it end? We see this is prominent in the life of Moses. As a leader, you have a spiritual responsibility to hear from God. Primarily, hearing from God is discovering what God is saying in His Word. If you want to increase your hearing, increase yo

The Leadership of Moses, pt4 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 154 When we talk about Moses, it’s easy to take him out of context and forget the incredible circumstantial environmental challenges that he had. These leadership lessons that we learn from him are so applicable in the trenches of leadership. Numbers 8:11 Aaron then shall present the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may qualify to perform the service of the

The Leadership of Moses, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 153 As we continue our series on the leadership of Moses, we are going to pick up his story in Numbers 7. They are getting ready to build the tabernacle. Moses was exerting leadership, and things were going well. Numbers 7:10 And the leaders offered the dedication offering for the altar when it was anointed, so the leaders offered their offering before the altar. Moses went to the heads of the tribes,

The Leadership of Moses, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 152 In our last podcast, we discussed how Moses got frustrated and it cost him entering the Promised Land. All through his life, we see a passionate, justice-oriented person. Moses has a great plumb line of right and wrong. Sometimes he did really well--he had passion under control, and sometimes he didn’t do as well--he had passion out of control. When he exploded with legitimate passion, it got him