#50: Never on a Hill Alone | Learning to Lay It Down feat. Timmy Hensel

About this episode

Pastor Timmy Hensel discusses the importance of laying everything down and the empowerment that comes from rest.

If the Lord asked you to lay everything down tomorrow, could you do it? It’s a self-awareness leveling question our guest, Pastor Timmy Hensel, now asks frequently. In this episode Timmy shares how he had never experienced what feels like and means to lay everything down until he recently took a sabbatical. Leaders, you have permission to rest. And this isn’t just for your benefit–laying things down empowers others and ultimately builds our future together. Timmy also drops some pastora...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chad Garrison, Brenton Hill

Guest: Timmy Hensel

Topics covered

• self-awareness
• leadership
• rest
• sabbatical
• empowerment

Keywords

• laying down
• sabbatical
• leadership
• rest
• empowerment

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