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There Was No Day You Drifted — the latest from the broadcast.
The new book
Thresholds
Thresholds: A Framework for the Leader Who Must Go Further is the book for the leader in the middle of a becoming they do not yet have language for. It maps the seasons where the calling itself asks you to change — the doors God opens that require you to leave part of yourself at the gate before you cross.
Not a book about optimization. A book about formation. About what has to break, what has to stay behind, and what has to be carried through. Written for pastors, executives, and every leader whose next room requires a different version of them than the last one did.
Thresholds is available now on Amazon, and on Apple Books from July 20. It made its official debut alongside its companion album Through at the Salt & Light META Conference.
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Broken Open at Rock Bottom
Broken Open at Rock Bottom is the interior work made public — now re-released with a new subtitle and a companion soundtrack. Identity, Formation, and Leadership Under Pressure. Written from inside the descent, not from the safe distance of the other side.
Its companion is Grace Enough — written and produced by E. Derrik Porter under the artist name M'Kenzie Edwards. The book breaks the person open. The soundtrack lets grace do its work in the silence between chapters.
At the bottom, grace is enough.
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