Relationship with God

The Sabbath-Shaped Workday — What Six Days Actually Means for a Founder

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-08-24 /

Most of us have memorized the second half of the fourth commandment and quietly ignored the first. Ask a room full of Christian executives to finish the sentence “remember the Sabbath day” and nearly everyone gets there. Ask them where their own workweek actually ends — what the edge of it looks like, what doesn’t…

Praying Over a Decision Is Not the Same as Delaying It — Here’s the Difference

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-08-18 /

You’ve said the words “I’m still praying about it” more than once this year — in a meeting, in a text to a business partner, in a conversation with your board. Some of those times it was true prayer, wrestled through honestly before God. Other times, if you’re willing to admit it, it was a…

The Plan You Made Before You Committed It to God

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-08-12 /

Bruce had the whole quarter mapped before his coffee finished brewing on Wednesday morning — deliverables sequenced, dependencies flagged, the exact order he’d walk the board through on Friday. He’d run it past his CFO the night before and past his mentor over breakfast. It was a genuinely good plan. He just hadn’t taken it…

The Anxiety You’re Carrying That Was Never Yours to Hold

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-08-06 /

Camille has run the same three sentences through her head since 4:45 this morning — the vendor contract, the number that still doesn’t reconcile, the call she’s not looking forward to at ten o’clock. She hasn’t solved anything by rehearsing it a dozen times before sunrise. She’s just carried it longer, and more tired, than…