CHEW Practice

What’s Driving Me Today? Using CHEW + SALVES Before a Key Decision

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-14 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals​ You know the feeling of walking toward a key decision with competing voices in your head. On the surface, you are weighing data, risk, and responsibility. Underneath, other forces are at work—your need for Security, Acceptance, Love, Value, Enjoyment, or Significance. When those…

When Sunday’s Worship Pace Follows You Into Tuesday

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-14 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You know this pattern: Sunday you sing, pray, hear the Word, and your whole body drops into a slower, steadier pace with God. By the time the benediction ends, your breathing has settled, your shoulders are lower, and your inner speed matches the…

How to CHEW to Love God with All You Have

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-12 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You pause for a brief moment with your phone in hand before stepping into a day that will draw heavily on your training, judgment, and presence. The environment around you is clinical and bright, the pace is brisk, and people are counting on…

Loving People Well With the Skills You Carry

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-11 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You know this moment: you carry expertise others do not, and you are about to guide people through decisions that will shape years of their lives. You could focus on you, but when you remember that God loves you as much as He…

Clarifying One Good You’re Growing Toward This Week

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-11 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You carry a lot of good in your heart already. You care about honoring Christ in the way you lead, how you show up at home, and how you steward the body and mind He has given you. But when the week fills…

Learning to Truly Want the Good You Already Know

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-11 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals What If There’s a Better Way? Most Christian professionals know the Romans 7 tension well: “I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing” (Romans 7:19, ESV). You already care about honoring Christ…

God’s Patient Love That Meets You in a Single Worship Moment

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-10 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You You’re standing in a familiar pew, bulletin in hand, when a lyric or a sentence from the sermon suddenly lands closer than the rest. For a brief moment, it feels like the room fades and a spotlight turns…

Letting What You Love Cheer On What God Loves

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-10 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Here’s the full blog with the new title and integrated tweaks, ready to paste into your editor. A Scene to Remember Realistic, photo style. A tan Dominican man in his 40s, in a modern Atlanta gym, mid‑workout on a rowing machine. Focused expression,…

God’s Adopting Love That Renames and Re‑Families

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-05 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You Imagine a wooden desk with a signed adoption decree at the center — one last name crossed out forever, a new family name written in with final, legal certainty. Around that paper, hands rest gently: those who have…

Enjoy Your Spouse Like It’s a Saturday You Don’t Want to End

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-03-05 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals What This Could Look Like You and your spouse sit across from each other at a favorite restaurant, dressed a little nicer than usual, with no rush to be anywhere else. The conversation is unhurried, the laughter comes more easily, and for a…