We look back on a season that reached far beyond expectations and then roll up our sleeves to share how faith, neuroscience, and practical systems can turn flimsy resolutions into a legacy you can measure. We start with the heart: trading should goals for soul goals, inviting God into the planning, and pressure-testing dreams that outlive us. From there, we get tactical—how to write goals that survive the dopamine spike, ride out the emotional dip, and become habits through weekly accountability and small celebrations that keep momentum alive.

We map a simple, holistic framework across mind, body, soul, and spirit. For the mind, set concrete learning outcomes and test them in the real world. For the body, focus on longevity, not the scale—strength training, sleep, recovery, and nutrition you can sustain. For the soul, invest in relationships with rhythms that bring life. For the spirit, anchor the year with a word and Scriptures, then let private devotion overflow into public fruit. Along the way, we share the tools that work—Franklin Covey, Atomic Habits, the 12-Week Year, and Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus approach—and why leading your time beats managing it.

You’ll leave with a blueprint: define annual outcomes, break them into quarterly targets, translate to monthly milestones, and protect progress with weekly plans. Use the Rule of Three to cut the noise. Build guardrails, name your demotivators, and allow for holy pauses when the season says not yet. If you’re ready to make heaven crowded while building a life you’re proud of, this is your next step.

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Ever tried to help and watched it backfire? We unpack the art and soul of feedback—how to speak truth that actually lands, and how to hear correction without shrinking. From family blowups to boardroom debriefs, we share a framework that keeps love and clarity on the same team so growth feels possible, not painful.

We start with the mirror: Matthew 7’s speck and plank reframed as a heart check before any hard talk. Then we layer in neuroscience—why criticism delivers a sneaky dopamine hit that can feed ego, and how healthy exchanges also spark oxytocin and serotonin, producing connection and calm. You’ll learn how the amygdala turns even mild critique into a threat, why some voices trigger us more than others, and practical ways to pause, detach identity, and sift for the gold in any message while tossing the gravel.

On the giving side, we get concrete about motive, timing, and tone. We share scripts for honoring what’s strong before offering what’s next, questions that turn critique into collaboration, and a simple test: does your feedback align with the fruit of the Spirit and leave the person hopeful, not humiliated? Through candid stories—parenting tensions, team coaching, and faith-grounded correction—we show how to match the moment, avoid perfectionism masquerading as excellence, and keep the goal clear: win hearts, not arguments.

We also address a quiet saboteur: “old logs” from forgiven pasts that still color how we speak and hear today. Grace dismantles that false weight, freeing us to grow without shame. If you want conversations that build people up, strengthen trust, and lead to real change, this one’s your playbook. Subscribe, share with a friend who leads or parents, and leave a review with one practice you’ll try this week—what will you change first?

Ever felt slammed with commitments yet strangely stagnant, like your calendar is full but your heart is asleep? We zoom in on the quiet drift that Scripture calls slothfulness—not just laziness, but misdirected energy that keeps you busy and still far from the work God actually gave you. From Haggai’s warning about misplaced priorities to Proverbs and Hebrews on spiritual sluggishness, we unpack how comfort and overactivity can become holy-sounding avoidance.

We get practical about discernment: is it disobedience, oppression, or depression? That distinction changes your next faithful step—repentance and discipline, spiritual warfare through prayer and worship, or counseling and care for trauma. Then we bring in the brain science. The limbic system wants comfort now; the prefrontal cortex was built for vision and follow-through. Translation: purpose beats preference when you train it with small, repeated acts of obedience. You can’t pray away a lazy habit; you practice your way out of it.

To help you move, we walk through layers of calling—universal, vocational, and personal—and share tools to clarify your lane: StrengthsFinder, spiritual gifts assessments, and resources like Shape, Purpose Driven Life, Atomic Habits, Sacred Rhythms, and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. You’ll hear honest stories of delayed obedience, the danger of “not yet,” and why your yes often unlocks someone else’s breakthrough. Courage grows like muscle; with each obedient step, resistance shrinks and your fire returns.

If you’re ready to exchange frantic hustle for fruitful obedience, this conversation will help you name your assignment, fight what’s fighting you, and rebuild rhythms that keep you hot after God. Listen, reflect, and choose one uncomfortable action aligned with your calling today. If this served you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review to help more people wake up their purpose.

The storm never sends a warning. One day life hums along, the next you’re hit by a wave you didn’t see coming. We lean into a simple, sticky image—cows run from storms and suffer longer; buffalo run through storms and reach clear skies faster—and use it to reframe how we face pain. Together we unpack why avoidance feels safer, how fight, flight, freeze, and especially fawn keep us stuck, and why the familiar can become a padded prison that masquerades as peace.

From there, we move into the deeper work. We talk about the “sharper but shorter” pain of healing: pulling back the bandage, cleaning the wound, and letting God rebuild what trauma and disappointment tried to break. We explore secondary gain—the hidden payoffs that keep us wounded—and how pain can slip into identity if we’re not careful. Scripture anchors us: James 1 on perseverance, Romans 5 on character and hope, Romans 8 on redemption, and Isaiah 61 on beauty for ashes. Spurgeon’s insight on affliction shaping God’s best soldiers meets real-life stories—Mandela, Viktor Frankl, Bethany Hamilton, Ruth, Hannah, David and Saul—to show how surrender transforms suffering into strength.

We don’t leave this at theory. You’ll hear a practical mindset shift from excuse to fuel: pain as disqualifier vs pain as the place God qualifies you. We offer clear next steps—naming the wound, confessing the payoffs, forgiving those who never apologized, seeking wise counsel or therapy, journaling, and taking one small step each day. The question Jesus asked the man by the pool still stands: Do you want to be healed? Run into the storm. Meet God in the middle. Let your pain become a bridge to purpose.

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Headlines shout. Our hearts want to shout back. We chose something harder—and braver—a holy pause to ask what God is saying in the middle of grief, confusion, and the swirl of opinions. We honor Charlie’s life by refusing cheap noise and by picking up the work he modeled: live the gospel out loud with courage, love, and action that outlasts outrage.

We walk through the shock of loss and then track the unexpected signs of hope: surging searches for Christianity, communities returning to church, and people asking better questions. Along the way, we trace a pattern of “full circle” moments—how God brings us back to the beginning to complete healing, shift our perspective, and launch us into purpose. We unpack personal stories, dates that suddenly align, and a vivid sense that this is a tipping point for a turning point. And we push past the tired left-vs-right script to name the real battle: light versus darkness, truth versus deception. Reclaiming the airwaves isn’t about being louder; it’s about stewarding words that are anchored in Scripture and aimed at hearts, not scoreboards.

Grounded in the story of Joseph—what was meant for harm, God used for good—we explore how pain becomes assignment. We also connect faith and neuroscience, drawing on experts like Dr. Caroline Leaf and Dr. Daniel Amen to show how renewing the mind changes the brain. Thought loops can be rewired. Gratitude calms, prayer clarifies, and journaling helps us hear and obey. You are not stuck with the brain—or the story—you have. With practical steps and a clear call to live like light, we invite you to plant, pray, preach, and trust God for the increase. If a full circle moment is tugging at you right now, ask Him what needs to be completed and where He’s sending you next.

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Have you ever wondered why it's so difficult to believe you're truly loved, no matter what? That struggle is at the heart of our spiritual journey.

"Love like Jesus" sounds simple, but requires something profound first—allowing ourselves to be fully loved by Him. In this soul-stirring conversation, we unpack the vast difference between human love (conditional, performance-based) and God's agape love (unconditional, steadfast, relentless).

The Bible uses multiple words for "love" that our English language compresses into one. We explore eros (romantic passion), philia (deep friendship), storge (family connection), and most importantly, agape—God's sacrificial love that cannot be earned and will never be withdrawn. In the Hebrew, "chesed" appears 245 times in the Old Testament, emphasizing God's covenant faithfulness even when we fail.

Many of us intellectually understand God loves us, but something blocks us from experiencing this love fully. We examine how confirmation bias leads us to interpret life events in ways that reinforce our feelings of unworthiness. We share personal stories of encountering God's love through unexpected signs, helping strangers, and finding healing from past relationship wounds.

The transformation happens when we move from head knowledge to heart experience—from reading about honey to actually tasting its sweetness. When we begin experiencing God's love rather than just thinking about it, everything changes. Our capacity to love ourselves and others expands dramatically.

Ready to break through the barriers keeping you from receiving God's complete love? Join us for practical steps to increase your capacity for divine connection. Remember, staying broken is harder than healing—and God's arms are always open, no matter where you've been or what you've done.

Have you ever wondered why you keep facing the same challenges over and over? That irritating coworker, family conflict, or professional disappointment might actually be a divine test revealing what's in your heart.

In this transformative episode, we unpack the crucial difference between God's testing and Satan's temptation. Testing from God proves our trustworthiness and readiness for greater purpose, while temptation lures us away from our divine calling. Understanding this distinction completely changes how we respond to life's difficulties.

We share vulnerable personal stories about facing tests of patience, overcoming self-righteousness, finding courage for public speaking, and healing from childhood wounds. These real-world examples illuminate how God often tests us in the very areas where we've prayed for growth. As one of us discovered in New York City and the other in Washington DC, God frequently arranges real-time testing opportunities that align perfectly with what He's teaching us.

The practical tools we provide help you discern whether you're being tested or tempted. Learn to examine the source (does it draw you closer to Jesus or pull you away?), the method (does it invite trust or offer shortcuts?), and the fruit (does it produce freedom or shame?). We also explore how unforgiveness can become a dangerous temptation that keeps us trapped in the past instead of moving toward God's best future.

As C.S. Lewis noted, hardships produce extraordinary things in ordinary people. Or as Steve Harvey wisely observed, true success comes not from taking the elevator but by climbing the stairs—each step preparing you for what's ahead. Take this journey with us and discover how testing, though challenging, transforms your heart and deepens your relationship with God.

The line between life and death isn't always as definitive as we think. Sometimes, it blurs in ways that defy medical explanation – ways that force even the most skeptical minds to consider something beyond science.

Angelic shares the breathtaking journey of her son Austin, born with complex congenital heart defects that doctors believed would be fatal. What follows is an extraordinary 30-year testament to resurrection power that has left medical professionals shaking their heads in disbelief. From Austin's first open-heart surgeries as an infant to a dramatic airport collapse in 2018 where he was without oxygen for over twenty minutes, this story reveals how the impossible becomes possible when faith refuses to surrender.

The raw emotional details bring you into hospital rooms where life-and-death decisions hang in the balance. You'll witness Austin's astonishing out-of-body experiences, including a four-year-old's encounter with Jesus and a teenager watching his own resuscitation from above. These aren't merely close calls – they're moments where medical science reached its limits and something else took over.

Perhaps most remarkable is Austin's current reality. With an ejection fraction that improved from 22% to the mid-30s (medically improbable for degenerative heart disease), he lives a quality of life that baffles specialists. "Austin is not a one-time miracle," Angelic explains. "He is a walking miracle and a carrier of glory."

Whether you're facing your own impossible situation or simply curious about the intersection of faith and medicine, this testimony challenges us to reconsider what's possible. After all, in a world fixated on quick fixes, Austin's story reminds us that sometimes God's greatest work isn't in immediate healing but in sustained glory that unfolds over decades.