Colors placeholder Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 517: “Nice” Isn’t a Fruit of the Spirit. Ryan Miller on Biblical Meekness, Losing Ownership of Your Life, Why the Wilderness Is a Grace, and the Distraction Keeping Us From Intimacy with Jesus 516: The Mask Became the Only Self You Know. Chuck DeGroat on The Hidden Faces of Narcissism, Performative Vulnerability, Why Self-Awareness Isn’t Transformation, Narcissistic Traits vs. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Healing From a Narcissist 515: Philip Anthony Mitchell on Why The Greatest Threat to the American Church Is the American Pulpit, False Teaching, Exegesis vs. Eisegesis, Biblical Illiteracy and Discernment, the Crisis of Encounter, a Pastor’s Battle With Depression, and Contending for the Faith 514: Pain Isn’t Trauma, and Enabling Isn’t Love. Dr. Les Parrott on What Trauma Actually Is, How to Stop Overthinking, Helping vs. Enabling, Empathy vs. Sympathy, and Why You Need Stronger Shoulders, Not a Lighter Load 513: The Image You Curate Is the Reason You’re So Lonely. Ian Simkins on the Difference Between Being Seen and Being Known, Performative vs. Righteous Vulnerability, Why Our Platforms May Be Discipling Us Into Loneliness, and How Every Table Becomes an Altar 512: What People Call Peace is Just Avoidance and Immaturity. Jonathan Eckert on the Happiness Crisis, Why Comfort Quietly Deforms Us, Joy as the Fuel for Struggling Well, the Cost of Frictionless Living, and the One Hard Thing to Run Toward Today 511: Elevation Worship’s LJ Mitchell on Releasing What You’re Known For, the Hidden Work of Formation, Ministering From Identity Instead of For It, and the Fear Disguised as Faithfulness That Keeps Your Hands Closed 510: How Healing Has Quietly Become an Idol. Toni Collier on Why Healing Is Always Unto Holiness, the Therapy Words We’ve Turned Into Idols, Boundaries That Have Doors, and How to Care for People Without Carrying Them 509: Life Coach Jesus Has Slipped Into the Pulpit. Jacob Coyne on the Commercialization of Christianity, Performative Faith, the Secret Place, and the Wilderness Where God Actually Builds You 508: Christian “Witchcraft”?! Christa Black Singh on Manifestation, the New Age Counterfeit in the Church, Psychedelics, the Self-Help Gospel, and Wanting God’s Power Without the Fear of Him 507: You Made a God Out of Safety and Control. Dr. Alison Cook on Secure Attachment to God, Why Control Is Fear in Disguise, the Wilderness That Strips Our Scaffolding, and the Codependency We Call Sacrificial Love 506: You Act Like You Are Your Own God. You Just Haven’t Admitted It Yet. Dr. Chris Palmer on Practical Polytheism, the Nihilism Nobody Names, Self-Centered Spirituality, and What a World Without God Actually Feels Like. 505: We’d Rather Trick Ourselves Than Train Ourselves. Geoffrey Cain on Steve Jobs’s 12-Year Wilderness, the Death of Ego, How Failure Became the Foundation for the iPhone, and What It Takes to Go from Volatile to Disciplined 504: You’ve Turned Jesus Into a Good Luck Charm. Bethany Wohrle on What Grief Feels Like in the Body, A Sacrifice of Praise, What to Do With Foreboding Fear, Releasing Outcomes While Still Holding Your Faith, and Why Ignorance Is Not Bliss 503: Are You Maturing or Just Aging? Father Ronald Rolheiser on the Three Critical Phases of Life, Why the Wilderness Happens, Why Bitterness is an Occupational Hazard, and the Grief That Carries You Through the Second Half of Life. 502: Your Faith Has Become a Job, and Jesus Never Hired You. Tim Timmons on Performance Christianity, Deconstructing Flimsy Christian Platitudes, the Difference Between Surrender and Contentment, and Wrestling with God Well. 501: You’re Still Performing for the Applause You Claim Not to Need. Pentatonix’s Kevin Olusola and Donovan Dee Donnell on Giving Up the Ghost, Why Fear Is a Weapon of Separation, and Purifying Your Motivations to Get Into Alignment 500: OCD Is Worse Than You Realize. Patrick Lencioni on the Intrusive Thoughts Nobody Talks About in Church, Scrupulosity, the Dark Night of the Soul, and Why Your High-Functioning Life Might Be Running on Fear 499: You’re Trading Your Soul for Approval. Tyler Staton on Approval Addiction, the Illusion of Control, Embracing Human Limits, Moving at the Pace of the Soul, and Absorbing the Wrongs of Another 498: You’ve Been Blaming the Wrong Person. Ryan Maher on Blaming God for What Human Freedom Produced, the Difference Between Sovereign and Controlling, Anchors for Trust When Circumstances Collapse, and What It Actually Takes to Trust Him Again 497: The More You Know, the More Cynical You Become. Carey Nieuwhof on Why Knowledge Breeds Cynicism, Ministry as a Series of Ungrieved Losses, Pattern Recognition, and Finishing Well in Life 496: Christian Self-Help Is Lying to You. Dr. Henry Cloud on Embracing Weakness as the Path to Growth, What Christian Self-Help Gets Wrong About Change, Why Triangulation Destroys Your Relationships, and How “Being Triggered” Has Been Weaponized 495: Jamie Winship: “You Don’t Know What Water You’re Swimming In.” A Conversation on the Separation Worldview, the Scarcity Wound, Why Every Conflict Starts Inside You, and How the Connection Worldview Changes Everything. 494: Some People Like You Better Broken. Tim Ross on Living Misaligned, Emotional Dysregulation, Curating the Narratives That Keep You Stuck, and Why the Peace Jesus Left You Is the Only Thing That Can Actually Hold You Together 493: You Don’t Just Have a Communication Problem. You Have a Wound Problem. Jason VanRuler on the Carbon Monoxide of Relationships, Why You Should Apologize First and Explain Later, Escaping Survival Mode, and the 5 PATHS to Deeper Connection 492: Your Jesus Is Too Small. Kyle Idleman on the Domestication of Jesus, Christian Culture vs. Kingdom Culture, DIY Spirituality, and the Consequences of Making Jesus Too Comfortable to Follow 491: You Are Being Deceived, and It Looks Completely Spiritual. Dr. Joel Muddamalle on Spiritual Warfare, Our Crisis of Discernment, Why Spirituality Is on the Rise, the Tactics of the Enemy, Why Christ Consciousness Is Demonic Deception, and How Deliverance Happens Practically 490: Every Day You Delay, You’re Stealing From the Person You’re Becoming. Jon Acuff on Procrastination as Identity Protection, Why Fear Keeps You Shopping for Quick Fixes, the Lie That Nothing Changes Everything, the Future Self You’re Betraying, and the Permission to Finally Start 489: You Don’t Want Freedom as Much as You Think You Do. Alex Seeley on The Work of Sanctification, The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Confronting Mindsets, Why We Like to Stay Stuck in Error, and Taking Responsibility for Our Wholeness 488: MercyMe’s Bart Millard on How Suffering and Adversity Can Be a Gift, Unlocking the Process of Healing in Life, Giving Up vs. Surrender, and Re-Learning Trust in God After Disappointment 487: Your Soul Is Fragmented. Now What? Heath Hardesty on Why You Don’t Know How to Receive God’s Love, the Lie of Self-Improvement Christianity, and the Path Back to Wholeness 486: You Can’t Bubble Bath Your Way to Wellness. Jennifer Breheny Wallace on Absorbing the Lies of Useless and Worthless, Why Self-Esteem Has a Short Fuse, Mattering vs. Validation, Toxic Success, and Why Hyper-Visibility is Fake Connection 485: Are You Prepared for Chaos? Paige Collins on the Necessary Posture in Shaking, The Cost of Surrender, and the Exploration of How God Speaks to People in Dreams 484: Selective Obedience is KILLING Your Faith. Hosanna Wong on Confusing the Practices of Jesus with Jesus Himself, Selective Obedience, How We Make Legalism Cool, The Role of Hiddenness and Crushing, Why It’s Time to Repent, and the 6 Roadblocks to Connecting with God 483: Let’s Talk About Sex (Addiction). Jay Stringer Unpacks the Anatomy of Sexual Addiction, Predicting Destructive Lifestyle Choices, Why Healing Addiction Requires Curiosity, and Why Grief Has the Power to Change What You Desire 482: God Won’t Force You to Heal. Debra Fileta on The Reason Most People Aren’t Emotionally Healthy, How “Trauma-Informed” Has Been Taken Too Far, and Why You Can’t Be Spiritually Mature if Your Mental Health is in the Trash 481: The Christian Addiction No One Talks About. Stephen McWhirter on Numbing with Ministry, The Bitterness We Carry in Our Bodies, and Becoming a Resting Place for Chaos 480: Undoing the Deception of Self-Creation and Gender Ideology. Abdu Murray Exposes How We’ve Taken Empathy Too Far, The Syrupy “Slogan-eering” of the Church, The Liabilities of Our Post-Truth Culture, and Why Identity is a Paper-Thin Idea 479: [SELF-BRAIN SURGERY] Not Everything Hard is Trauma. Dr. Lee Warren on What it Means to Take a Thought Captive, What to Do When You Can’t Stop the Anxiety Spiral, Challenging Automatic Thinking, and What Scientists Botch on a Regular Basis 478: Hustle Culture Creates Burnout. Brad Stulberg on The Biology of Excellence and the Art of Becoming, Rugged Flexibility, How to Curate Your Content Better, and the Two Kinds of Burnout 477: [SELF-BRAIN SURGERY] Therapy Culture is BLOCKING Your Ability to Heal. Dr. Lee Warren on The “Problem” with Our Brains, Addressing the Resistance that Shows Up When We Try to Heal, Getting Out of Survival Mode, and Compulsive Rumination 476: [Formed.] Lisa Bevere on Being Spiritual But Not Religious, What an Exorcist Said About Tarot and Oracle Cards, How the Progressive Movement is Connected to Self-Deification, and Why The Church is Too Comfortable Preaching Catchy Phrases Instead of the Word 475: [Formed.] Are You Suffering? Dr. Craig Keener on The Necessary Theology of Suffering, How to Develop a New Mindset About Affliction, Hurdling Unresolved Disappointment, Why God is Not in a Hurry to Mature Us, and the Pressure That Shapes Us 474: [Formed.] Spiritual Drift is Quiet. Ian Simkins on The Fingerprints of a Disordered Life, Developing Discernment as You Train for Godliness, Why the Crucible of Formation is in the Monotony of Everyday Life, and Restoring the Fire of Discipleship to Jesus 473: [Formed.] Comfort Won’t Mature You. Dr. Joel Tudman on How We Cheat Ourselves in the Wilderness, Why “Finding Yourself” is a Waste of Time, The Beauty of Being Pulled Apart by the Lord, and Fighting to Stay Agile in a Disruptive Life 472: [Formed.] Will You Kill Entitlement and Self-Pity? Kristene DiMarco Unpacks Rekindling Spiritual Hunger, The Danger in Numbing Boredom, Training Your Soul for Godliness, and Laying Down Your “Right” to Be Offended by Life 471: [Formed.] Take Responsibility for YOUR Spiritual Growth. Dr. Eric Mason on The Greatest Problem with Bad Teaching (That Few Recognize), Why You Can’t Give God Ultimatums, and Why You Can’t Make Your Assignment Your Purpose 470: I Didn’t See THAT Coming. What Happens When We Hit the Wall, Why God’s Silence Isn’t His Absence, and the 4 CRITICAL Words You Must Embody in 2026 469: Your Body Is Telling the Truth. Jordan Rubin on The Food That Kills Your Sex Drive in Minutes, Whether EMFs are Dangerous, How to Get Sick Quickly, and Why Physical Health is Spiritual Health Home Page – Header