faith journey
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Late at night, a familiar chill creeps in—you can’t shake the sense you’re too broken, too scarred, maybe just too far gone. You pray to know God, but “faith” feels mixed with white-knuckle panic about failing, letting down those you love, or finding…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You planned to walk in victory, planned to leave old habits behind. Things actually felt good—a streak of clean days, new hope, even a sense that God was at work.But today? You lost the fight. Porn—a click you regret, a spiral stronger than…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Brandon is doing all the “right” things—resisting sin, praying for wisdom, trying to live purely—but the changes he craves seem stuck on hold. Truthfully? He’s frustrated that God’s way so often feels harder than other people’s, that even when he does everything “right,”…
THE DAILY CHEW™ CHEW on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. When “Better” Is More Than a New Habit In Washington Heights, progress was measured out loud—by the block, the team, the family. “Did you step up? Did you bounce back?” It was never just about private wins. The same is true in the spiritual…
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Uptown Needs, Uptown Answers From a young age in Washington Heights, I heard a hundred voices telling me how to fill the emptiness—hustle harder, fit in, become “somebody,” never show weakness. I tried most of the world’s answers. Eventually, even doing everything right didn’t…
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Uptown Blues: When Longing Turns Sideways In the Heights, even the loudest laughter could hide a deep ache. Looking back, I see it in all of us—turning our core longings into silent agreements or cover-up moves when things got rough. For me, that meant…
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Washington Heights, Wounds, and What Drives Us In Washington Heights, I learned quickly that everyone’s got a “why”—a core longing that shapes what feels like winning or losing. Some chased respect on the block, some clung tight to family, others just wanted to belong.…
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Real Life: Coffee, Core Longings, and Core Stories Growing up in Washington Heights, it was normal to see family members fighting hard to be “somebody”—whether by making a name in the neighborhood, keeping us safe in little ways, or making sure we were never…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Not long ago, I sat across from a client—an accomplished Christian leader wrestling with a familiar question that rarely gets said aloud in boardrooms or Bible studies: “Am I enough?” The surface issue was a high-stakes transition, but underneath, he confessed, “No matter what I…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Last week, a belt got looser and—surprisingly—that’s when the old cravings crept in. Here’s the honest side of my journey: after over three months of using the CHEW framework day and night (and seeing changes, not only in me but also in the high-performing men…