Skye Jethani – Healthy Leaders

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Skye Jethani

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Skye Jethani is an author, editor, speaker, consultant and ordained pastor. He also serves as the co-host of the popular Phil Vischer Podcast, a weekly show that blends astute cultural and theological insights with comical conversation. He occupies numerous roles at Christianity Today, a leading communications ministry launched by Billy Graham in 1956. Since 2004 Skye has served on the editorial team of Leadership Journal and is currently the Director of Mission Advancement for CT. He is also the Senior Producer of This Is Our City, a multi-year, multi-city project telling the stories of Christians working for the common good of their communities.

Trust the Catcher

Faith is the opposite of seeking control. Faith is willfully surrendering control and entrusting yourself into the hands of God. It is letting go and trusting that you will be caught.

A City Under Siege

The medieval theologian, Thomas Aquinas, said that fear is a contracting impulse of the soul. It causes us to turn inward to focus only on ourselves. From this posture, we cannot love, give or serve others.

The Goal of Gratitude

Like the commands in Scripture to love, forgive and serve, the instruction to give thanks does not depend on one’s feelings. It is something we are called to do whether we feel like it or not. In this way gratitude is a discipline.

Fear Is the Enemy of Gratitude

Our desire for safety is not wrong, it is merely misplaced. We look to protect ourselves from the uncertainty of this world by seeking control ‒ often by accumulating wealth ‒ but the peace we are longing for cannot be found in money.

Worship Is Beautiful, Not Practical

Our culture has formed us to think about nearly everything transactionally. Is what I will get equal to or greater than what I am being asked to give? This mindset even shapes how we think about worship.

Gratitude Connects Sunday to Monday

For our faith to be real, for it to be truly meaningful, it must be alive in the hustle and bustle of the world. What is the point of having a car that cannot leave the garage? What is the point of having a faith that cannot leave the church?

What to Use & What to Enjoy

“Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.” (Luke 15:31)

Moving Toward Maturity

For many of us, faith was easy as children but has become far more difficult to sustain as adults. The problem, at least in part, is that we try to carry our childish faith into adulthood and find it inadequate.

When God Says “No”

Jesus said that God hears our prayers with the ears of a loving Father who gives good things to His children. With this image of God in mind, we are to ask for what we need and desire. This has led some to incorrectly think God will grant whatever we ask.

Love Comes First

We want to be impressed and even overwhelmed by God’s love for us. It should inspire our worship and provoke our obedience, but can we still be motivated by His love if it is indiscriminate?

Compare and Despair

How do we not constantly compare our circumstances to others’ when everywhere we look, every form of media we engage and virtually everything in our consumer society is designed to make us discontent?

Welcome to the Party

“Just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, [I ask] that they also may be in Us.” (John 17:21)

You Are Not Defined by Desires

We do not live by bread alone. We are more than our desires, and the purpose of life is more than satisfying our natural longings however legitimate they may be.

Pure Thanksgiving

Pure thanksgiving is possible when we focus on the source of our blessings rather than merely the blessings themselves.

A Prayer Life or a Praying Life

Why do we struggle so much with prayer? I am convinced that much of the burden comes from misunderstanding the purpose of prayer. If we believe that God exists to be used, that He is the means we employ to get what we need or want, then prayer is a necessary chore when life isn’t going the way we desire.

Enough Faith for Today

“Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’… Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.” (Matthew 6:31-32)

A God of Abundance

“At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.” (Exodus 16:12)

Seeing Through Another’s Eyes

“Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another.” (Hebrews 10:24-25)

What Makes God Happy

Why is giving thanks to God with a joyful heart so important? To start, we need to look more closely at God’s heart and what makes Him joyful. We may think of God as powerful, or merciful or loving, but have you considered that God, in His nature, is happy?

Becoming Kingdom Colonists

This excerpt from Whole-Life Generosity Devotional by GenerousChurch guides us to a more biblical understanding of our citizenship in heaven.