The Breakthrough Podcast
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!
Episodes
February 6, 2023 • 20 mins
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.
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February 6, 2023 • 26 mins
“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 breakthrough
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February 6, 2023 • 22 mins
“You are who you are today primarily because of the pattern of behavior in your life...” - Danny Anderson
A 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...
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February 6, 2023 • 25 mins
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” - John Dryden
Our 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...
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February 6, 2023 • 30 mins
“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....
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February 6, 2023 • 25 mins
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.
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February 6, 2023 • 16 mins
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 ...
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February 6, 2023 • 22 mins
“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...
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February 6, 2023 • 34 mins
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 ...
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February 6, 2023 • 23 mins
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: (ht...
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February 6, 2023 • 32 mins
“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 Shaw
The 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 “r...
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February 6, 2023 • 27 mins
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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...
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February 6, 2023 • 35 mins
“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 lea...
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February 6, 2023 • 23 mins
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...
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February 6, 2023 • 23 mins
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 agains...
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February 6, 2023 • 32 mins
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 ...
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February 6, 2023 • 32 mins
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
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February 6, 2023 • 26 mins
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.
What we might not real...
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February 6, 2023 • 33 mins
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.
In this episode, Pastor Danny s...
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February 6, 2023 • 28 mins
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.
What happened? We lacked consistency. Consistency is key to creating the results that we want to...
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