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Ed Underwood

Ed Underwood is the current president of the FGA Executive Council and founder of Recentered Group. During his career as a pastor, culminating with turning around the historic Church of the Open Door, Ed merged his leadership experience as an Army Officer and fireman with his passion for authentic church to help leaders and communities heal from wounds and toxicity that cripple vision and impede sustaining success. Ed has authored four books, numerous journal and website articles. He travels extensively, preaching, teaching, and equipping leaders, leadership teams, mission organizations and churches. Ed and Judy have three grown children and nine grandchildren.

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Ministries

  • Recentered Group

    Many church leaders live lonely and weary lives. We aim to provide practical and down-to-earth resources that will bring transformation and health to your church culture so you can experience the joy of ministry once again. By trusting the resources available in Christ, there is hope for sustainable change. We walk…

Podcasts

Books by Ed Underwood (3)

  • Beginning in Grace

    Seven Basic Truths to Transform Your Relationship With God

    Discipleship, the tremendous offer to make your life count for Jesus, is exactly what you and I were reborn in Christ for. Most of us would admit that the story of our lives has not looked at all like what we first dreamed when Jesus ran us down with His love. And still, millions of Christians simply settle. Why? Because they don’t understand discipleship . They’ve never been shown, taught, or equipped with the…

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  • Reborn to be Wild

    Reviving Our Radical Pursuit of Jesus

    A long-time pastor ponders why the Jesus Movement stopped moving…and challenges all generations of believers to the radical commitment that fuels revival. Long before becoming a pastor, Ed Underwood was a “Jesus Freak”—a young man transformed by the Jesus Movement in the 60s and 70s. He and his friends threw their hearts into a revival they thought would change the world. But somehow, the Jesus movement stopped…

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  • When God Breaks Your Heart

    Choosing Hope in the Midst of Faith-Shattering Circumstances

    Why is God letting this happen to me? If you have never asked this question, you someday will. There is perhaps no greater challenge to our faith than personal suffering. For pastor Ed Underwood this challenge came in the form of chronic leukemia. Though he prayed for and believed in God's healing, as the days slipped by and his pain became unbearable, Ed's heart was broken by a simple realization: The God who…

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Videos (3)