Leadership & Calling
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 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 Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Love Means Something Different Than You Think You use the word love every week — in prayer, in leadership, in marriage, in parenting, in how you describe what God means to you. And yet if someone asked you to define it —…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals He was a professor — brilliant, respected, deeply committed to his faith. Seven children. A wife who loved him. From the outside, the family looked strong. But one day he said something out loud that he had been carrying quietly for months: “I…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Competence Is Not Enough You are competent. Your team knows it. Your clients know it. Your résumé proves it. And yet — if you are honest — there are rooms where your competence is respected but your person is not fully trusted.…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals I was being flown in to a mid-sized logistics company in the Midwest to train the C-suite on how Myers-Briggs could set them and their direct reports up for success. I had put significant work into this training — the Chief Sales Officer…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Performance Outpaces Receiving Picture a Saturday evening in Atlanta. The kitchen is warm, the butcher-block island is set, and a family of four is laughing — genuinely laughing — over dinner. No phones face-up. No one rushing to finish. The kids are…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals If you know me, you know moving is in my top three hates. This week I am downsizing my office — the one I have worked from for seven years. My team is virtual now. Less than ten percent of clients come in…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals From the outside, he looked like the leader everyone wanted to work for — polished, talented, early 30s, delivering results that drew reporters and industry recognition. But inside the one-on-ones, it was a different story. He drove his team relentlessly. He knew how…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals It is 5:35 in the morning and the exchange from yesterday is still running. Not because it was catastrophic — but because something in it landed sideways and your heart has not finished processing it. You have already mentally replayed the tone, the…