Steve Cuss

Steve is the author of Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs and The Expectation Gap and also a columnist and host of Christianity Today’s Being Human podcast. Steve founded Capable Life to help people lower anxiety, break stuck patterns and increase wellbeing in the work place, home place and in your faith.

Steve holds sixteen hundred hours of supervised ministry in Clinical Pastoral Education and is a Spiritual Care Professional in the ACPE. He holds a Master of Divinity from Emmanuel Christian Seminary with a thesis focusing on the dignity laws of Leviticus and Exodus and how a suburban church can move beyond charity to address systemic poverty.

Steve is an ordained pastor and has faithfully served in local churches for 26 years. From 2005 - 2021 Steve was Lead Pastor at Discovery Christian Church in Broomfield, CO. Under Steve’s tenure, the church grew from 150 to more than 1200 in weekly attendance and moved from portable to building its own building. Steve is a capital campaign veteran. Prior to Discovery Steve served in crisis intervention at a mega church in Las Vegas, on a ranch for struggling teens, and as a youth minister in the Appalachian region.

Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Steve now lives in the U.S. with his wife Lisa and their three children. When not working, he enjoys time with family, knee deep in a trout stream, or trying a guitar he cannot afford at a local music store.