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LILR 169 | Filipe Santos on Intentional Humility and Multiplication

October 06, 2026

Filipe Santos, lead pastor of Echo Church in Silicon Valley, returns to Leaders in Living Rooms four years into his succession, and he's refreshingly honest about what he's learned. After more than a decade as executive pastor, Filipe unpacks how he learned to lead as himself instead of wearing someone else's armor, why the applause that comes with a new title is more dangerous than most of us admit, and the unexpected rhythms (like ditching the green room) that keep his heart in check. Then ...

LILR 168 | Sabbatical Do's and Don'ts from Sean

September 22, 2026

Most pastors treat a sabbatical like a finish line: hold on until it arrives, then collapse into it. But what if there is a better way? In this solo episode of Leaders in Living Rooms, Sean shares what he learned from his own sabbatical, including what he'd do again and the one thing he'd change. He talks about why you can't flip a switch on the way out or the way back in, and why he redirected his inbox to a folder he never plans to open. He also explains what it looked like to step away fro...

LILR 167 | Andy Crouch Speaks to Leadership Guardrails in the Church

September 08, 2026

Do you actually have power, and what are you supposed to do with it? On this episode of Leaders in Living Rooms, Sean Morgan sits down with author Andy Crouch, whose landmark book Playing God reframed how a generation of Christian leaders think about power, for a conversation most leadership podcasts won't touch. Andy makes the case that power isn't a necessary evil to be minimized or hidden behind a flat org chart; it's a gift, and the only thing that keeps it from corrupting is sacrificial ...