Articles
You didn't get into business to lose yourself in it. But that's the quiet risk. The bigger the mountain, the easier it is to mistake movement for depth — and arrive at the summit wondering how you got so far from yourself. These articles are a conversation for entrepreneurs who want both: to climb hard and to go deep. To carry big responsibilities without losing the inner life that makes them worth carrying. Nothing to buy. Just questions worth sitting with.
Good Soil, Not Good Optics: Discerning Who to Disciple
Milk Drinkers vs. Meat Eaters
Spiritual maturity was never about how many years you've been a believer — it's about whether love has actually been trained into reflex.
How Do I Measure Growth?
I asked my wife how I could love her better. Her answer exposed the courtroom I've been running on my own soul — and on everyone I love.
Receiving the Day
Most of us were never taught how to receive a day. We were taught how to attack it. What if the paradigm of Sonship changes everything about how we meet the morning?
Revealing Shadow Missions
John Ortberg wrote about shadow missions twenty years ago. I read it in my late twenties and have been reminded of it ever since. Here is what shadow missions are, how they show up in a leader's journey, and how we navigate them to run the right race.
Fool's Gold
What ego costs you when you're running a race God never assigned. Reflections on Ryan Holiday's Ego Is the Enemy from a biblical and redemptive standpoint.
The Impossible Made Possible
What Jesus said to the man who had everything — and what it exposes in every successful person today.
The Noonday Demon
The ancient monks had a name for what happens to you every afternoon — and it's not laziness.
The Mirror We Avoid
2 Timothy 3 isn't a description of other people — it's a mirror, and it's pointed at you.
Your Decision-Making Is the Tell
How you make decisions when no one is watching reveals who is actually Lord over your life.
Get Out of My Chair
In the woods, alone, God said four words that reoriented everything.
I was in the woods at Quest — a men's retreat — alone with nothing but a journal, a Bible, and the uncomfortable silence that descends when you have no meetings to run to. In that silence, God said something I've never forgotten: Get out of my chair.
Carry Weights
The race marked out for you is already hard enough — stop adding weight that was never yours to carry.
The Stay Ready Physical Challenge
Six movements. No fluff. The benchmark that tells you exactly where you stand as a hybrid athlete.
I've been searching for a benchmark that tests both strength and endurance. The GBRS Group's Universal Performance Standards — made famous by Nick Bare's visit with DJ Shipley — might be exactly what hybrid athletes need.
The Quiet Drift
You don't lose your way in a moment — you slip the mooring slowly, and never feel it happening.
There is a moment — and you never see it coming — when the current shifts beneath you.