The Breakthrough Podcast: Recent Episodes
Pastor Danny Anderson
How do you reach your full potential? We all want to move from where we are to where God wants us to be or to become the kind of person we aspire to become. But we get stuck. We get overwhelmed and derailed by things like fear, discouragement, distractions, bad habits, and limiting beliefs. Join Emmanuel Church’s Lead Pastor, Danny Anderson and discover how to break through whatever is holding you back, learn the tools you need to live an abundant life, and gain practical advice on how you can become the person you were meant to become. Have a question you’d like tackled on the show? Email us at breakthrough@eclife.org!
As we approach a new year, the prospect of a fresh beginning and a clean slate excites many of us. It's a time when we enthusiastically set goals and devise plans for the positive transformation we wish to bring into our lives. However, effecting lasting changes demands considerable dedication, effort, discipline, and even pain. The question looms: Can we truly make changes that endure throughout our lifetime?
In this podcast, Danny Anderson will share four words required for anyone aspiring to achieve lasting change. These four words represent a tried-and-true pathway to transforming your life. Uncover the significance of these words by tuning in to our final breakthrough podcast! (Stay tuned for exciting plans in store for the future!)
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This month, Danny Anderson dives deep into the world of personal productivity, exploring the art of optimizing one's time and resources to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Danny shares valuable insights into time management techniques, habit formation, and overcoming common productivity challenges. Tune in to learn practical tips and strategies to help unlock your full potential and experience the breakthrough you have been searching for in your personal and professional life. Whether you are a busy professional, a student, or anyone looking to enhance your personal productivity, this episode is for you!
In this podcast, you will discover:
- Practical steps to living a productive life.
- The power of consistency.
- The importance of deadlines and a sense of urgency in a person’s life.
- The complementary nature of rest and productivity.
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In this month’s episode of the Breakthrough Podcast, Danny Anderson will continue the conversation surrounding the idea of ‘Life as a Game.’ This episode will provide the listener with practical steps and applications to develop the skills you need to find the breakthrough you seek.
In this podcast, you will discover:
• The power of a growth mindset.
• How to develop a more comprehensive set of skills.
• How can you further develop and expand upon those skills?
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In this month’s episode of the Breakthrough podcast, Danny Anderson will delve into the concept of ‘Life as a Game.’ This episode is certain to provide you with a fresh and meaningful perspective on your life and what you can do to find a breakthrough in your life.
In this podcast, you will:
• Explore why this metaphor is so captivating and how it provides valuable context for our lives.
• Learn about the rules, strategies, and what it takes to truly excel in life.
• Discover the key to unwavering motivation, differentiating between external motivators, like shelter and material possessions, and the internal motivations of curiosity, passion, and purpose.
This episode will leave you feeling inspired and prepared to tackle the game of life!
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It’s the 50th episode of The Breakthrough Podcast! In this episode, Pastor Danny Anderson unpacks five practical ways to stay close and connected with God. Here are the five ways we’ll dive into in this episode: 1) Give the first hour of your day to God. 2) Read spiritual books. 3) Engage with spiritual friends. 4) Commit to a local church. 5) Practice the presence of God. If you do any of these five things, you will undoubtedly experience a breakthrough in your spiritual and relational life!
In this episode, you will discover:
- Why God should get the first hour of your day.
- The importance of reading spiritual books.
- Why godly friends impact every aspect of your life.
- Why the local church is vitally important in a person’s life.
- What it looks like to practice the presence of God.
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Are you ready to break free from fear and embrace your inner courage? Join us in this month's podcast episode as Danny Anderson uncovers the transformative journey of building courage in our lives. Through the exploration of repetition, association, faith, and failure, you'll gain valuable insights and practical tips to cultivate courage and step into a breakthrough in your life. Start your journey toward courageous living today!
In this episode, you will discover:
- The meaning of courage and why we need courage in our lives.
- How courage is built through repetition.
- How courage is built through association.
- How courage is built through faith.
- How courage is built on failure.
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www.dannyanderson.net
For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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Have a question you’d like to be discussed on the podcast? Email us at breakthrough@eclife.org.
In this episode, you will discover:
- What it means to live as a sojourner.
- How a sojourner thinks.
- What it looks like to make eternal investments.
- The emotional and spiritual benefits of living as a sojourner.
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Are you feeling stuck in your spiritual life? The secret to getting unstuck might be as simple as one word: repentance. For many of us, the word repentance has negative connotations, but repentance may be what holds the power to usher in a life full of joy and freedom. Join us this month as Danny Anderson shares practical steps to live a life of repentance and move toward a better, more abundant tomorrow.
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In this episode, Danny Anderson wraps up the conversation about raising the standards in your life. Last month, we learned two fundamental ways to raise our standards:
1) Get disgusted with your current situation
2) Change how you view yourself
In this month’s episode, Danny Anderson gives us two more practical ways to raise the standards in our lives.
3) Change your limiting thoughts
4) Get around people who make you better
What you think about and who you spend time with will ultimately determine who you become.
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Feel stuck? Unmotivated? Are you tired of settling for an average life? Something needs to change, but what? In this episode, Danny Anderson argues that raising your standards is the first step to a changed, more fulfilling life. You might be surprised to learn how close you are to the life you desire. Join us as we learn two practical ways to raise the standards in your life.Click here for show notes (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2045.pdf)For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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“The ability to control your attention determines how well you perform any task.” – Shawn Brawley. In this episode of The Breakthrough Podcast, Pastor Danny dives into the superpower of focus and gives tips on how you can channel it to achieve great things and even have a breakthroughClick here for show notes (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2044.pdf)For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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“You are who you are today primarily because of the pattern of behavior in your life...” - Danny AndersonA continual battle of good vs bad habits goes on in our lives. It may feel like it’s impossible to beat a troublesome habit, but the reality is that millions of people have overcome what we are struggling with. In this episode of The Breakthrough Podcast, Pastor Danny offers strategies to take control of your actions and break bad habits. Click here for show notes (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2043.pdf) For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” - John DrydenOur habits can make or break us, either helping us to build the life we desire, or burying us under an avalanche of negative results. In this episode of The Breakthrough Podcast, Pastor Danny guides us towards positive outcomes by helping us to take control of our habits - rather than the other way around... Click here for show notes (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2042.pdf) For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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“I think the ability of the average man could be doubled if it were demanded, if the situation demanded.” - Will Durant Modern life can sometimes seem like a never ending “to do” list, and many of us struggle with getting things done - or knowing which things to do. In this special episode of The Breakthrough Podcast, Pastor Danny and Pastor Rachel dive into possibilities for increasing productivity in all areas of our lives. Click here for show notes (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2041.pdf) For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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In this special episode of The Breakthrough Podcast, the members of The Nobel Alliance come together to discuss the benefits of shared wisdom and collective coaching. Join Michael Clark of BAM Weather, Jesse Dale of MacroMillionaire, and Danny Anderson, Lead Pastor of Emmanuel Church, as they delve into the positive impact that a group of like-minded encouragers can have on your life. Click here for show notes (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2040.pdf) For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard ShawThe default mode for many of our lives is to listen to all of the voices - sometimes our own - telling us why things can’t be done. This month, Pastor Danny continues developing practical strategies to help you grow beyond the “reasonable” limitations that others may set for you. Click here for show notes (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2039.pdf) For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” When we are kids, we have huge dreams for the future, believing nothing is impossible. Over time, however, those dreams begin to fade as we listen to voices - others and our own - counseling us to be more realistic…How do you fight the pressure to be “reasonable?” Pastor Danny shares practical strategies to help you keep your dreams alive. Each of us have limited days on the earth - as Pastor Danny’s 85-year-old friend challenges us: “Let’s see what you can do with this one.” Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2038.pdf) For more information about Emmanuel Church, including weekend service times and locations, visit eclife.org
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Our world is full of enticements towards instant gratification. We are consistently encouraged to indulge our immediate appetites and desires, often at the cost of long-term goals. The resolve to resist these self-destructive urges may exist in some areas of our lives, yet be completely lacking in others. How do you take charge? Pastor Danny shares practical strategies to help you build the ability to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done-regardless of how you feel.
Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2037.pdf)
GREATEST HITS: Enjoy one of the highest-rated episodes from the Breakthrough Podcast archives! There is so much negativity in our world today, and it’s easy to get swept up into the flow of negative news, opinions, and media. Optimism is difficult. Staying positive means we have to swim upstream to break through the current of pessimism. The good news, though, is that we have a choice. While it doesn’t come naturally to most of us, we can choose to be positive. Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2019-%20Greatest%20Hits.pdf)
“If you want something done right, you need to do it yourself” is one of the most commonly-heard - and damaging - ideas espoused by managers, administrators, and others in charge. Growing churches and other organizations with thriving teams have learned that the deeper their “bench” is, the farther they can go. This month, Pastor Danny shares practical strategies to help you grow and develop a solid - and deep - organization of leaders. Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2036.pdf)
Stress is a big deal. More than 30% of Americans deal with debilitating stress or anxiety. Unbridled worry can cause us to make poor choices, leading to even more fear and frustration... How do we avoid this downward spiral? Pastor Danny shares practical strategies to help you tap into your unleveraged energy, enabling you to focus on what you’re best at in those time periods when you’re at your best. Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2035.pdf)
How do you deal with stress? The majority of those around us experience stress on a daily basis - some to the extreme. Anxiety, depression, and worry are on the rise. You may be in the grip of stress, with burnout or breakdown clear on the horizon. We often spend our most important hours dealing with our least important issues, causing problems to mount. How do we fight against this tendency and put first things first? Pastor Danny shares practical strategies you can put into practice to break out of the stress spiral and thrive in your day-to-day. Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2034.pdf)
Are your relationships on the right track? Our society holds up images of interpersonal connections that are often either picture-perfect or surface-level. Going beyond to become the husband, wife, parent, child, and/or friend that we want to be takes focus, effort, and a healthy and God-honoring plan. So how do we sustain real-life relationships for the long haul? In this special bonus episode, Pastor Danny shares three practical strategies to strengthen and sustain your most important relationships.Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2033%20Part%202%20(Bonus).pdf)
How would you rate the quality of your relationships? Whether it’s with your spouse, children, parents, coworkers, or friends, the quality of your life is often determined by the quality of your relationships. If your relationships are struggling or deteriorating, life can be difficult. The problem is that we tend to be more intentional with strangers andacquaintances than with our closest friends and family. How do we fight against this tendency and shore up our relationships? Pastor Danny shares two practical strategies you can put into practice to reinvest in your most important relationships. Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2033.pdf)
Traditional time management practices are broken. No matter how hard we work, we tend to think that if we were just a little more skilled and disciplined, we could get everything done. We create false expectations and put unrealistic pressure on ourselves to squeeze value out of every moment. Then, when we inevitably fall short of this idol, we beat ourselves up and feel like a failure. What if there was a better way? Pastor Danny shares a new approach to time management so that we can achieve our goals and fulfill our calling without sacrificing our joy, contentment, and peace. Click here for show notes: (https://thebreakthroughpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/thebreakthroughpodcast/Episode%2032.pdf)
Reading is one of the most valuable activities that we can do. Books can help shape our perspectives, increase our knowledge, grow our wisdom, and inspire us to greater heights. Yet, reading can feel like a chore that we don't have time to do consistently. Pastor Danny shares four ways that reading changes us for the better and gives some helpful tips on making the time to do it
Whether it’s in our jobs, our relationships, or in pursuing a goal, we all run into obstacles. Something comes along on our journey or process that gets in the way. It could be a difficult co-worker, relational tension with a family member, or an unexpected project assigned by our boss. It could be excruciating and traumatic such as an alcoholic parent, chronic pain or illness, or the death of a loved one.
The average person makes 35,000 choices a day. (226 of them are just about food!) While it’s true that our choices are not the only thing that shapes our future, they play a huge part. In fact, we are where we are today primarily because of the choices we have made. Our choices have consequences in big and small ways, and when we make great choices, we get to partner with God in shaping our future.
We all have goals and desires for the most important areas of our lives. We want the best for our health, careers, marriages, and relationships. Most of us set out to make positive changes with the best intentions. We hit the ground running, but over time the desires fade, we lose our motivation, and we don’t see the results we hoped.
Our minds are a lot like our bodies. Just as physical strength varies from person to person, mental strength varies as well. Two people can experience the same type of problem; however, how they handle the problem can be completely different.
Recently at Emmanuel Church, Pastor Danny completed a weekend message series on marriage and relationships called Making It Work. During the series, he was joined by his wife of 21 years, Jackie Anderson, to share insights and principles on how to cultivate a healthy marriage. This series included a Q+A with questions submitted by Emmanuel Church attendees. In this episode of the Breakthrough Podcast, they answer more of your questions.
Intensity is not always easy to grasp and cultivate. Almost all of us can get excited and make progress for a short period, but maintaining it consistently to the finish line can be challenging. Contrary to what we might believe, we don't stay in one place when we stop moving forward. We start to slip backward.
2020 has come to an end. Many of us are ready to turn the page and look forward to a new year of possibility and opportunity. The prospect of a fresh start motivates us to set resolutions, goals, and aspirations for the year ahead. But if you want 2021 to be the year you push past your setbacks and have the breakthroughs you desire, don't start by setting goals and making resolutions.
As 2020 ends, the world feels chaotic and unstable. With a global pandemic, racial tension, economic uncertainty, and political divisiveness, data shows that many people are struggling to cope. 45,000 Americans are committing suicide each year. 72,000 have experienced an overdose. And for the third year in a row, the average lifespans for Americans has shortened.
Our culture is all over the place when it comes to what is acceptable and unacceptable sexual behavior. Our world is hyper-sexualized and many of us walk around with temptation right in our pockets in the form of our cell phones. Pornography use is skyrocketing and leading to broken marriages and relationships. 20 million new cases of STDs are transmitted each year. And, arguable most tragic of all, sex trafficking is an epidemic in this country and all over the world.
It’s a safe bet that you have to deal with a difficult person at some point during your day. Whether it’s someone negative, pessimistic, aggressive, passive-aggressive, doesn’t follow through, or gossips, we all have to interact with people who can sometimes make life hard. If we don’t figure out how to navigate these relationships, we’re going to live a life filled with high levels of frustration and an absence of joy and peace.
Are you nervous? It’s easy to look at the state of the world right now and feel anxious, overwhelmed, and even afraid. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, upcoming U.S. election, economic uncertainty, racial tension and unrest, and chaotic fall school semester, many of us are feeling on edge.
There is so much negativity in our world today, and it’s easy to get swept up into the flow of negative news, opinions, and media. Optimism is difficult. Staying positive means we have to swim upstream to break through the current of pessimism. The good news, though, is that we have a choice. While it doesn’t come naturally to most of us, we can choose to be positive.
Are you intimidated by prayer? Do you struggle to make time to pray consistently? Do you feel unworthy of talking to God? Has disappointment over unanswered prayers in the past kept you convinced that prayer doesn’t work?
The COVID-19 crisis has created a lot of uncertainty. With that uncertainty comes anxiety and fear. Many are out of work, or trying to navigate working from home while also homeschooling children. At times, it’s hard to even remember what life was like when we could come and go whenever and wherever we wanted. It seems like a lifetime ago that we were able to gather with family and friends.
Wait, aren’t we told that we need to be more content? Yes, it’s true that God wants us to rest in the care and provisions that He gives to us every single day. But, there is a positive form of discontent. It’s the inner disgust over the status quo and the way things are. If we understand it properly, it can be the fuel we need to achieve our goals and make progress in our spiritual life, marriage, finances, relationships and careers.
All of us want to make positive changes in our lives. The new year brings with it the promise of a fresh start or a clean slate. Whether it’s getting into shape, saving more money, learning a new skill, creating better habits, quitting bad habits, or spending more time with the people we love, each of us want to end the year better than where we started.
No one gets through life without dropping the ball. We’ve all experienced failure – whether in our professional life, our personal life, or our spiritual life. Failure is painful, but it’s also inevitable. If we don’t learn how to deal with it, we’ll never reach our potential. What if we didn’t look at failure as a bad thing, though? What if we saw it as a necessary step on the path to ultimate victory? Learning to reframe failure could just be the breakthrough you need to get life back on track.
Anxiety is an epidemic, affecting 40 million Americans. So many of us feel stressed, overcommitted, and overwhelmed with responsibilities. We’re more isolated than we’ve ever been before – “connected” by our devices and social media but lacking the community we crave. And on top of that, we’re overloaded with information and news on a daily basis. What is the root cause of anxiety? And what can we do to overcome it? Learn 5 practices you can put in place today to find more peace, control your mind, and break free from anxiety.
If you’re like most people, mornings stink. We might hit the snooze button three or four (or eight) times, or grab our devices and check social media and the news before we even get out of bed. We feel late, rushed, and barely have time to get dressed let alone shower, eat breakfast, and connect with our families. We start the day stressed, frustrated, and overwhelmed. The truth is, we all have a morning routine. The question is whether or not it’s any good. In this episode, learn two benefits to designing a great morning routine, along with six elements you can implement to set yourself up for a productive and rewarding day.
Studies show that nearly 80% of our thoughts on a daily basis are negative. Whether it’s criticism, doubt, or condemnation of ourselves or others, negative thoughts can have terrible consequences. Our thoughts lead to emotions, and our emotions drive behavior. What makes it even more challenging is that our minds are wired to focus on the negative. Like any bad habit, it can be challenging to overcome negative thinking. But we do have control over what we think about. Learn five strategies to stop negative thinking.
We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a big project, an upcoming test, a difficult conversation, or a looming deadline, often the hardest thing to do is to get started. Procrastination is the act of putting of something that you know you should do now. It always leads to regret. We miss a deadline, the quality of work is poor, our stress levels increase, and we may even get into trouble. The biggest problem, though, is that we never reach our potential and accomplish the work we set out to do. So, why do we procrastinate? And how do we overcome it? Pastor Danny shares five tips on how to break through our habit of procrastination and get the right things done now.
PART 2 (of 2): According to a recent study by Forbes, more than 90% of people site their job as more of a source of frustration than fulfillment. And according to a Gallup Poll, 85% of people claim to hate their jobs. So many people feel frustrated and angry and are simply living for the weekend. How do we learn to find joy in what we do? How do we know when it’s time to move on? Join Pastor Danny as he talks with consultant, speaker, and author Brad Lomenick, founder of BLINC and former president of Catalyst, about how we can have a breakthrough in our careers.
According to a recent study by Forbes, more than 90% of people cite their job as more of a source of frustration than fulfillment. And according to a Gallup Poll, 85% of people claim to hate their jobs. So many people feel frustrated and angry and are simply living for the weekend. How do we learn to find joy in what we do? How do we know when it’s time to move on? Join Pastor Danny as he talks with consultant, speaker, and author Brad Lomenick, founder of BLINC and former president of Catalyst, about how we can have a breakthrough in our careers.
Emptiness is a feeling nearly everyone struggles with at some point. We may feel numb and bored, or that our life lacks purpose, direction, and meaning. It can be scary to feel this way. In our fear, we sometimes turn to comfortable or convenient fixes to fill the void. But what if feelings of emptiness aren’t necessarily a bad thing? What if they were simply a signal pointing us to something better?
“Where are you, God?” For anyone who follows Jesus, there inevitably comes a time where we hit a dry spell. We’ve drifted away from God, and we’ve lost a sense of his presence. We’ve maybe lost interest in church and are no longer spending much time with him. When this happens, it’s hard to know what to do. How do we get the fire back and rekindle our intimacy with the Lord? Or, if we’re not yet followers of Jesus, how do we begin cultivating a relationship with him? Learn 4 steps you can take when you feel distant from God.
A habit is something we do without even thinking. It has become second nature. Studies show that 40% of our everyday behavior is habitual. And all habits create a result – good or bad. If we desire a breakthrough, it’s time to start evaluating our habits. Learn 3 strategies you can use to create the habits you need to improve the quality of your life.
Life can be discouraging. We all have expectations of how we hope or wish life would go, and then, things don’t turn out that way. What do we do when we don’t get the job, the test result comes back positive, or we give into temptation yet again. Learn 3 strategies you can use to bounce back from disappointment.
Life can be overwhelming. We can sometimes feel like we are being pulled in many different directions. And if we’re not careful, we can let our most important relationships and responsibilities suffer. How do we learn to say no so that we have the space to focus on what really matters? Learn 3 strategies to begin managing your time more effectively.
“I want to spend time with God, but I don’t know how.” So many of us struggle with how to connect with God on a daily basis. We know we’re supposed to. Our pastor has told us to. We desperately want to. But we struggle with being consistent. Learn 3 practical steps you can take today begin putting a daily quiet time into practice.
Welcome to The Breakthrough Podcast with Danny Anderson. How do you reach your full potential? We all want to move from where we are to where God wants us to be or to become the kind of person we aspire to become. But we get stuck. We get overwhelmed and derailed by things like fear, discouragement, distractions, bad habits, and limiting beliefs. Join Emmanuel Church’s Lead Pastor, Danny Anderson and discover how to break through whatever is holding you back, learn the tools you need to live an abundant life, and gain practical advice on how you can become the person you were meant to become. Subscribe now to get the first set of episodes!