Christian Leadership

What I Am Learning at 57 About Working Within the Limits God Gave Me

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Last week, I watched my wife get hooded for her PhD in History. She began her Master’s after I started my PhD in Practical Theology — earned the Master’s, finished the doctorate, wrote the dissertation in under a year — and crossed the stage with…

The Wealth Manager Whose Wife’s Biggest Win Was Getting a Shower

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You can build a successful firm and lose the marriage you built it for — and not realize how close you are until your wife casually mentions that getting a shower today was the biggest win on her list. A Christian wealth manager…

What 34 Years of Coaching Has Finally Taught Me About Productivity

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are sitting on a park bench on a Wednesday morning — the kind of pause you almost never give yourself — and the truth lands quietly: the reason your output feels scattered is not your calendar. It is that you said yes…

The Quiet Resentment That’s Costing You Your Best Hire

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are sitting alone in the conference room Tuesday morning, and through the glass wall you watch your senior direct report doing the thing he does effortlessly — the team gravitates to him, the room loosens when he walks in, decisions land smoother…

When You Can Feel Your Team Starting to Pull Away

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You walk into the boardroom Monday morning before the team arrives, and you already know. The room has been quieter the last two weeks. Replies are coming back shorter. Two of your senior people are no longer pushing back on ideas the way…

The God Who Weeps Before He Rescues

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Before He called Lazarus out of the tomb, Jesus wept. He did not rush to the miracle. He did not correct the theology of the grieving. He did not scold Mary for her fury or shame her for refusing to meet Him when…

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…