The Reluctant Leader Podcast with Paul Jenkins
Throughout the years, I've come to believe two truths: one, everyone leads someone, and two, no one really feels qualified to lead anyone. Add the pressure put on us by culture to have all the answers in a world full of confusion, and you've got a recipe for reluctant leaders.
Thankfully, when it comes to leading in the Bible and in life, the most qualified aren't always the most obvious. This podcast is a conversation for all of us who want to lead well but never feel like we are. New episodes are released on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month.
Episodes
43 episodes
TRLP 042: Karl Vaters challenges our obsession with bigness, and offers a fresh perspective on the future of faith in America
In this interview, we take a deep dive with Karl Vaters, a seasoned pastor and author, as he challenges the conventional obsession with church size. For over 40 years, Carl has been an advocate for small churches and has worked to redefine succ...
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Episode 42
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32:35
TRLP 041: Let's Talk About the Power of Speaking Kind Words
All of us know that our words have power but too many times we talk as if they don't. In this episode, Paul shares how one simple statement ignited passion and launched him into action. We're sure that you'll be encouraged, and will be challeng...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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6:41
TRLP 040: What Do You Do When God Seems to Ignore Your Prayers?
Does God ever seem distant when you ask him about things that really matter to you? Of course, he does. But the good news is that you aren't alone! Anyone who has ever spent any amount of time in prayer has felt that way, and often, the more de...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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9:12
TRLP 039: Never - and we mean, NEVER - stop planting because the harvest IS coming
As we wrap up our "Restored to Health" miniseries in Psalm 126, the psalmist reminds us that even after we've been restored, there is work to be done.Even more importantly, he reminds us that the work often still feels like work, and ye...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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8:05
TRLP 038: Let's Talk About Taking Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back, and Why Sometimes That Might be Normal
We've all been there. We've gone public about something amazing that God has done in our lives, churches, businesses, or ministries only to wake up the next day and find ourselves wondering if it really happened?In this episode, we can ...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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8:18
TRLP 037: Let's Talk About a Four Letter Word with the Power to Get Us Through the Process
Sometimes the process of being restored to joy is just that ... a process. That process can be daunting and overwhelming if we think it's about being the perfect leader or the perfect person, but when we accept as fact that the Lord <...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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7:06
TRLP 036: Let's Talk About Testimonies, The B99's Birthday, and How God's Grace Works to Keep Us on Our Worst Days
As we continue our miniseries in Psalm 126, let's talk about the things that mark us when we're living lives that have been restored to health: joy, song, laughter, and the global influence that comes with a life of integrity.Will we al...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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11:25
TRLP 035: Let's Talk About Gratitude, and How Remembering What God Did Helps Us Be Better Leaders
In this episode, Paul kicks off a miniseries diving into the game-changing truths found in Psalm 126, and takes us deeper into the profound wisdom that verse 1 offers for modern livingLearn how gratitude transforms our perspective, calm...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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8:53
TRLP 034 - Let's Talk About How to Live Beyond Regret and How to Stay Out of Hell
Is hell "down there?" If it is, then why do we often talk about "hell on earth?" Why does the regret we experience at night as we replay the day feel so much like hell already, and how can we learn to live beyond it?Is peace even possib...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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12:18
TRLP 033 - Let's Talk About the Difference Between Me and Tiger Woods, and How Leaders Need to be Able to Recover to Joy Quicker
What's the biggest difference between Tiger Woods and me when it comes to playing golf? Well, we both hit bad shots from time to time (I hit a lot more of them), but we don't recover from them the same.In this episode, let's talk about ...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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10:10
TRLP 032 - Let's Talk About Stepping Through the Door in 2024 and Leading From a Place of Health and Joy
Welcome to the last episode of 2023! In this episode, Paul walks us through Psalm 126 and shows us how what the Lord told His people then still speaks to His people now. As the Year of the Door, 2024 holds so much promise for us, and as Paul ex...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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7:18
TRLP 031 - Let's Talk About the Beautiful Way that Jesus Takes the Two and Makes them One
After a fast-paced, family-filled wedding weekend, Paul came home with three things:1. A new daughter-in-law,2. A wicked head cold (he's all about that bass in this episode!), and3. A fresh revelation of what the power of the go...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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5:22
TRLP 030 - Let's Talk About Building a Faith that Can Be Forsaken
So often in leadership, we talk about having a faith that can't be shaken, but in this episode, Paul points out what it looks like to have a faith that can be forsaken.It's important, too, because - wait for it - we're going to be.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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8:44
TRLP 029 - Robby Angle Talks About the Best Book He's Ever Read, and Living Free From the Pressure to Perform
What if it was possible to live free from having the pressure to perform for God's love, and instead, live free in the reality that we've already been given God's love?In this episode of TRLP, Paul interviews Robby Angle, a former staff...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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34:04
TRLP 028 - Let's Talk About Hard Things, Threshing Floors, and Hope For Current and Future Generational Leaders
Have you ever noticed that sometimes we get what we pay for? We buy cheap stuff to save a buck or two, only to have to buy that same cheap stuff over and over and over...Sometimes, it's much better to pay the price in order to obtain so...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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9:48
TRLP 027 - Let's Talk About a Mental Health Crisis and How Non-Anxious Leaders Can Help
It should come as no surprise that depressive episodes exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, 18-25 year-olds are twice as likely to struggle with depression as people over 50, and that number is only rising.Does that mean the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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10:17
TRLP 026 - Let's Talk About Consistency and Why So Many of Us Keep Starting and Stopping and Starting And Stopping
Have you ever felt like you had whiplash because of all the starts and stops as you tried to develop a new habit? Why do so many of us never actually achieve and stay at new levels in life and leadership?In this episode, Paul takes us t...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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11:10
TRLP 025 - Rare of Breed Talks About Overcoming Foster Care, Addiction, Homelessness, and how the Mercy of God Birthed a Brand New Life and Musical Style Called GodTwang
What happens when God rescues a life out of a broken home and foster care that loves hip hop but has country music in his roots? He opens the door for Rare of Breed, a leading artist in the genre of Country Hip Hop.You read that right. C...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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23:23
TRLP 024 - Let's Talk About the Body and Why Armpits, Elbows, and the Spaces Between Our Toes Matter So Much
Too often we place too much emphasis on things that can be seen and parts that can be platformed. But when was the last time you actually stopped to consider that each one of us are uniquely gifted for a part to play and a purpose to fulfill?
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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7:16
TRLP 023 - Nathan Smith Talks About the Asbury Outpouring, Being in Big Daddy Weave, and The Most Important Thing We Can Ever Do For Jesus
By now, you've probably heard about the outpouring at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. In this episode we talk with Pastor Nathan Smith, an Executive Pastor at The Refuge Church in Kannapolis, North Carolina, about his history wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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33:45
TRLP 022 - Let's Talk About Time and Why It's Important to Remember That We Only Have So Much of It
Sometimes God asks us questions that He already knows the answer to, and those moments can lead to some pretty massive revelations. Like the day when God asked me this seemingly simple question:"What's the difference between an army and...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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8:28
TRLP 021 - Let's Talk About Doing What We Can as We Get Ready to Do The Thing That We Feel Called to
If you're a leader like me, you can relate to the first chapter of Jeremiah.God - yeah, THE GOD - tells Jeremiah that He's appointed him as a prophet to the nations, and reassures Jeremiah that he's been known since he was in his mother...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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15:53
TRLP 020 - Let's Talk About How the Rhythm of Sabbath and the Reality of Family Can Help Us Discover and Use our Gifts
Do I wish I could have interviewed John Mark Comer for this episode? In my best Minnesotian accent: "You betcha!"But instead, we'll just settle for a John Mark quote along with some of the insights I've gained by reading and listening t...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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7:48
TRLP 019 - Let's Talk About How to Have Something to Say When We're Given the Opportunity to Say Something
If you could boil an entire year down to just one word, what would that word be?For me, in 2023, that word would be PROCLAIM. But as we'll discover in the episode, there are a few things that we need to do first in order to ensur...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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8:01
TRLP 018 - Let's Talk About How Having the Right Tool Makes the Job Easier, and How the Master Builder Has Made Us For What He's Sent Us to Do
As I learned while trying to drill holes into brick walls, a job that can be done gets frustrating fast when you try to do it with the wrong tools.But the moment I used the right drill bit and the right screws turned int...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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13:09