Ryan Bailey

A 7-Step Template for Chewing on the Gospel in Under 15 Minutes – Part 1

By Ryan Bailey / 2021-10-27 /

As believers, our goal is to love God with all we have and are and to love our neighbor as ourselves.  We discussed in a previous blog how that comes only when we see how much God loved us first.  Unfortunately, we often only know intellectually that God loves us; we may struggle to truly…

7 Questions for Moving Truth From Head to Heart

By Ryan Bailey / 2021-10-26 /

How do you come to really believe that God loves you with all He has and is?  You believe it intellectually.  You’ve seen it in the Gospel.  But how do you get to a point of functionally believing something as big as that?  How could the God of the Universe possibly love you, specifically?  How…

The Gospel Is Our Path to Love

By Ryan Bailey / 2021-10-25 /

Love transforms us.  When we know something we’re doing bothers someone we really love, we stop doing it.  When we know that something brings someone we really love joy, we give it to them.   Our lives are not what they could be because we are not functionally convinced that God loves us with all He…

All You Need Is Love

By Ryan Bailey / 2021-10-22 /

Okay, this may sound overly simplistic at first, but hear me out.  The first commandment is that we are to love God with all we have and are.  But when we sin, there is always the same one-two punch that Satan delivered to Adam and Eve: First, he gets us to believe that we can…

What is the First Principle?

By Ryan Bailey / 2021-02-25 /

“Now Christ is the visible expression of the invisible God. He existed before creation began, for it was through him that every thing was made, whether spiritual or material, seen or unseen. Through him, and for him, also, were created power and dominion, ownership and authority. In fact, every single thing was created through, and…

How to Shorten Your Resume

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-07-15 /

For one reason or another, your resume is too long. Maybe you’ve finished your first draft to find you have a 5-page monster on your hands.  Or maybe you’re like me, and you just dump accomplishments and dates haphazardly into an overgrown document until you need them.  Maybe you’re simply overqualified for a role. Pushing…

Flush or Align Left and Right at the Same Time

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-07-14 /

Being able to flush/align left and right simultaneously is extremely helpful when creating professional documents. This is text flush left.  The text is aligned to the left. This is text flush right.  The text is aligned to the right.. Below is text flush left and right at the same time.  Notice how the texts share…

Format Your Resume to Make Your Recruiter Happy

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-05-28 /

There are countless resources on the internet about how you should format your resume.  Font, font size, margin, page count, layout, expensive paper?  The number of decisions you have to make when building your resume is dizzying. What decisions are right?  What kind of layout will help you get the job? To answer those questions,…

Acing a Behavioral Interview with a SOAR/STAR Document

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-05-06 /

“Tell me about a time when you dealt with conflict.” “How would you handle an upset customer?” “What role do you normally take in your team?” If you’ve ever received a non-technical interview, you might have prepared for questions like these.  Most interviewers use what’s called behavioral interviewing, a style of interview filled with questions…

Using Quarantine for Your Career

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-05-06 /

What day of quarantine are you on? Today is about day 45 for me. Around day 12 or so, I concluded that I was not a huge fan of COVID-19 at all. Especially as a career development coach, I’ve had a front row seat to the never-before-seen impacts of this global pandemic on our work…