Identity

Receiving a Compliment Without Flinching

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-10-08 /

God’s love settled your worth before anyone applauded, which means you can receive praise as a gift instead of a threat. You may know the reflex: someone compliments your talk, your leadership, or your team’s result, and you wave it off before they finish. Have you ever walked away from a kind word feeling oddly…

The Name Under the Name

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-07-29 /

Elena’s partners at the firm call her “the closer.” Her associates call her “relentless.” Her calendar this week calls her “unavailable before 6 PM.” None of those are wrong, exactly — she earned every one of them over fourteen years. But standing at her office window at 6:45 AM, coffee going cold in her hand,…