Articles
Thoughts on faith, leadership, family, and the discipline of showing up.
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?
The Noonday Demon
The ancient monks had a name for what happens to you every afternoon — and it's not laziness.
The Impossible Made Possible
What Jesus said to the man who had everything — and what it exposes in every successful person today.
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.
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.
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 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.
Your Decision-Making Is the Tell
How you make decisions when no one is watching reveals who is actually Lord over your life.
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.
Carry Weights
The race marked out for you is already hard enough — stop adding weight that was never yours to carry.
The Mirror We Avoid
2 Timothy 3 isn't a description of other people — it's a mirror, and it's pointed at you.