Christian Spiritual Formation

Living in Your Strike Zone: Using Your Top Three Strengths in the Most Important Part of Your Role

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-15 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You You’ve named the most important part of your role and listed the skills it requires. Maybe you’ve even ranked yourself and picked one area to move up by a single point. But in the middle of daily demands,…

From Scattered to Strategic: Focusing on the Most Important Part of Your Role

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-15 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You You wake up to a calendar that’s already full. Meetings, Slack pings, client calls, staff issues, project deadlines, not to mention the “real work” you thought you were hired to do. People praise you for being responsive and…

When Your Job Isn’t the Job You Signed Up For: How God’s Love Brings Clarity to Your Real Role

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-15 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why this matters for you You accepted the job based on a description that made sense: clear responsibilities, meaningful impact, a defined scope of authority. Then you started working—and realized that a big chunk of your actual day is filled with tasks that…

When You’re Tired of Waking Up: God’s Love and Passive Suicidal Thoughts

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-08 /

The Daily CHEW™ – Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Hurts So Much There are mornings when you wake up and your first thought is not, “Thank you, Lord,” but, “I wish this were over.”You are not planning to harm yourself. You love your family. You know suicide is…

Building Teams That Run on God’s Love, Not Fear or Performance

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-08 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You You care about excellence and results. You lead meetings, manage projects, hit numbers—and people would probably describe you as driven, competent, and “good to work with.” But behind the metrics, you can feel something else. You sense how…

Lament in the Arms of Love: Bringing Your Honest Pain to a Faithful Father

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-08 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You You know how to push through. When the numbers miss, when the conflict at home flares, when the diagnosis lands, you grit your teeth and keep going because people depend on you. On the outside, you look composed;…

When Change Feels Too Slow: How God’s Love Meets You in the Long Journey

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-08 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You You thought you’d be further along by now. You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, had the honest conversations, and maybe even done counseling or coaching. You’ve seen real progress—less explosive anger, more honesty about porn struggles,…

When Accusations Feel Louder Than God: Spiritual Warfare as a Battle to Believe You Are Loved

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-08 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why This Matters for You You know the feeling. One careless comment in a meeting, one mistake on a project, one moment of weakness in temptation—and suddenly the inner dialogue ramps up: “You’re a fraud. God must be weary of you. Other people…

When Suffering Makes You Question God’s Love: How to Fight the Right Battle

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-08 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Why Does This Hurt So Much? The email comes in at 10:47 p.m.—the one you hoped would say “approved” but instead says “we’re going in a different direction.” Your stomach drops. This isn’t just a project; it’s your reputation, your income, your sense…

Enjoying God: Why Delight, Not Duty Alone, Fulfills the First Commandment​

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-01-08 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals​ Why This Matters for You “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” can easily land like a heavy assignment on an already full plate. You add it to the…