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From Solo Struggle to Shared Strength: Your Guide to Life-Changing Group CHEW

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-09-05 /

The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Last Tuesday, I sat in my office after a particularly challenging client call, feeling that familiar weight of carrying everyone’s struggles—including my own—by myself. As a first-born Dominican ENFJ who’s spent years learning to be the steady one, the helper, the problem-solver, I caught…

When God’s Call Feels Bigger Than Your Toolkit: Trusting His Love in New Territory

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-09-05 /

The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. I sat in my car outside the office building last week, staring at a new client’s building that felt both thrilling and challenging—the kind that makes this driven, first-born son of two up-from-poverty-over-achieving-physicians heart race with possibility and freeze with “do I really have…

When Sunday Evenings Feel More Like Strategy Sessions Than Rest

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-09-04 /

The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. I love my work—that’s not the problem. What weighs on me is the knowledge that I haven’t finished everything on my plate, more is coming, and I’m already not sleeping enough. Hiring more people seems like a massive undertaking right now, though it’s exactly what…

When the Enemy Is You: The Challenge and Freedom of Self-Forgiveness

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-08-01 /

The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. There was a time when my harshest critic wasn’t a boss, friend, or even an old adversary—it was me. I poured energy into high standards, striving for excellence and growth, but inside I kept rehearsing every mistake, every unresolved regret. My drive hid a deeper…

Finding What Needs Forgiving: How High Achievers Spot the Wounds That Sabotage Success

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-08-01 /

The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. There have been moments when I pushed forward, driven to achieve—yet beneath the momentum, invisible wounds kept resurfacing. A sharp email, a broken promise, a mentor’s criticism. I told myself I could handle it, that high standards required “thick skin,” but certain conversations or setbacks…

Leading With Trust Through Team Changes: Anchored in God’s Security

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-08-01 /

When a trusted employee leaves the company—often suddenly—the leader stands at a crossroads. Every decision, every word matters for the team’s trust. How can you lead when you, too, feel the foundation shaking? This is where spiritual leadership, rooted in God’s unshakable security, sets itself apart. Why Does This Hurt So Much? The Leader’s Tension…

Leading from Love: How High-Performing Families Anchor Growth in God’s Grace

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-07-21 /

The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Ten years ago when my twins were ten and my daughter was seven, I tried to lead what I thought was a “simple” family devotion—organized agenda, clear structure, and I tried to be passionate throughout the whole devotional. Within five minutes, my wife was…

From Belief to Breakthrough: How God’s Love Displaces Deep-Rooted Lies

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-07-20 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Deep‑rooted lies shape how you see God, yourself, and others—but God’s love in Christ displaces those lies at the level of core belief so you actually begin to live as someone who is free, not condemned (Romans 8:1; John 8:31–32, ESV). This rewrite…

Track Your CHEW Breakthroughs: A Simple Guide to Noticing Real Growth

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-07-18 /

Why This Matters for You (and Those Around You) Spiritual growth can feel invisible. In busy seasons or repeating struggles, it’s easy to miss breakthrough moments—those surprising shifts in beliefs, habits, or experiences of God’s love. The truth is: the more you notice and record where God is at work, the stronger your confidence will…

Monthly CHEW Progress Reflection

By Ryan Bailey / 2025-07-18 /

Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Why Do a Monthly Review? Faithful, monthly reflection lifts your eyes from the weekly ups and downs to the bigger picture—where you can trace God’s hand, celebrate actual change, bring persistent struggles into the light, and set a renewed focus for what’s next. This practice transforms your…