CHEW Practice

A God Who Waits — Not Because He Is Distant, but Because He Is Faithful

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals There is a God who is not in a hurry. Not because He is indifferent to what you are carrying. Not because He has overlooked the prayer you have prayed for the fourteenth time. Not because your situation is too small for His…

Living and Leading from a Loved Heart: A Framework for the Week You’re Walking Into

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Performance Outpaces Receiving Picture a Saturday evening in Atlanta. The kitchen is warm, the butcher-block island is set, and a family of four is laughing — genuinely laughing — over dinner. No phones face-up. No one rushing to finish. The kids are…

I Hate Moving — and God Used My Doom Scrolling to Prepare Me for It

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals If you know me, you know moving is in my top three hates. This week I am downsizing my office — the one I have worked from for seven years. My team is virtual now. Less than ten percent of clients come in…

He Built the Team Everyone Wanted to Join — and It Started with One Apology

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals From the outside, he looked like the leader everyone wanted to work for — polished, talented, early 30s, delivering results that drew reporters and industry recognition. But inside the one-on-ones, it was a different story. He drove his team relentlessly. He knew how…

The Conversation You’re Still Replaying From Yesterday

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals It is 5:35 in the morning and the exchange from yesterday is still running. Not because it was catastrophic — but because something in it landed sideways and your heart has not finished processing it. You have already mentally replayed the tone, the…

The Meeting Starts in Ten Minutes — and God Already Settled Who I Am

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are standing near the glass, notes in hand, ten minutes before the room fills. Your preparation is thorough. Your content is strong. And this Monday, instead of letting the week’s first high-stakes moment define your posture, you are doing something most leaders…

What Your Anger Is Trying to Tell You — A Gospel Guide to Feeling Everything and Losing Nothing

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You Know the Feeling — You Just Don’t Know What to Do With It You are standing at the glass wall of your office and your chest is tight. Something happened — a betrayal, a dismissal, an injustice that landed harder than you…

I Once Told My Wife That God Was an Abuser

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals I have had a lot of trauma in my life. Some I caused. Most I did not. There was a season when the pain stacked so high that I would silently scream in my head: How much do You think I can handle? One night,…

They’d Been Partners for Decades — but the Team Was Ready to Leave

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals They built a highly successful wealth management firm together over decades. Real care was the foundation — they had weathered markets, losses, and seasons that would have broken most partnerships. But somewhere along the way, the care calcified into something neither of them…

Venting Feels Productive — but It’s Costing You More Than You Think

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals It feels like processing. You pull a peer aside, replay what happened, lay out your case, and for a few minutes the validation hits — yes, you were wronged, yes that was unfair. But here is what venting actually does: it rehearses the offense, recruits…