Ryan Bailey
Closeness to God in a heavy season depends less on how much time you can find and more on where you stay. Say you are a managing partner three weeks from a deal closing, and the thirty-minute morning plan you built in a calmer month lasted nine days. It now feels like a plan from…
The love of Christ is too large to finish understanding, and Scripture treats that as an invitation to worship, not a problem to solve. It is Sunday morning, the house is quiet, your coffee is cooling, and one sentence from Ephesians is open in front of you. You can read it a dozen times and…
A household remembers what it can see, so God told Israel to stack stones where their children would ask about them. Picture your kitchen counter on a Saturday morning: a calendar, a stack of mail, a few school forms, a coffee mug. Everything the week demands is visible, and nothing there yet records what God…
Being someone’s boss and being their leader are not the same role. It’s National Boss’s Day this week, which is usually just a card and a lunch, but it made me sit with a distinction I’ve never separated out loud: I don’t always know which one I’m supposed to be wearing in a given conversation.…
A handoff is not finished until the team has heard it. You decided last week that a rising leader should run the next major client pitch, and you told them privately in your office. But in this Wednesday’s meeting, the room still turns toward you for every answer. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? —…
A joke that carries a jab keeps working long after the laughter stops. Picture a leadership meeting where a slide is behind schedule, and the sharpest line in the room, delivered with a grin, earns the biggest laugh and the longest silence afterward. Most of us have been on both sides of that moment, and…
Some truths about God’s love reach your heart faster as a melody than in a paragraph. Picture your drive to work: a hymn you almost skipped is playing, and for the first time all week a line about God’s love does not just make sense, it lands. Nothing about the commute changed, only the way…
A busy season is when a marriage most needs to be fed, not a time it can be put on hold. You are three days from quarter close, the dashboard is red in two regions, and your spouse’s text, “Dinner Thursday?”, lights up your phone between calls. Nothing about the text is unreasonable; it just…
The God we worship this morning does not rescue out of obligation; He rescues because He is glad to. Picture a swimmer going under in open water, and a hand closing around her wrist. When she trusts the person who is holding her, the water has stopped deciding anything. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is…
God carries the one who is carrying, which means you can care for an aging parent without carrying it alone. You may be the person in your family who now gets the phone call: an appointment to arrange, a house getting harder to manage, a parent who needs more than they will ask for. Have…