Many Christians quietly wonder if they are doing something wrong in their spiritual life.

Maybe you’ve tried to follow the same devotional routines others recommend… but instead of feeling closer to God, you feel distracted, discouraged, or disconnected.

In this episode, we explore Gary Thomas’s Sacred Pathways — a framework that helps us understand how God uniquely designed each person to experience relationship with Him in the context of His Word and His Church. Some people connect most deeply through nature, others through study, others through serving, silence, creativity, or celebration.

The problem is not that you don’t love God — it may simply be that you’re trying to relate to Him in ways that don’t match how He wired you.

We’ll walk through the 9 Sacred Pathways and talk about how discovering your natural connection points can remove unnecessary guilt, increase joy in your spiritual life, and help you grow in authentic relationship with God.

God is personal. It makes sense that our connection with Him would be personal too.

If you’ve ever felt like your quiet time isn’t working, this conversation may help you discover a more life-giving way forward.

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Did the early church invent the story of Easter… or did Easter give birth to the church?

That question matters more than most people realize. Because if the Resurrection accounts were written decades later as theological storytelling, then Christianity rests on inspirational myth. But if the stories recorded in Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20–21 reflect eyewitness testimony of real events… then the Resurrection isn’t just symbolic — it’s history that changed the world.

In this episode, we explore four surprising features of the resurrection narratives that scholars like N.T. Wright point to as evidence of authenticity:

• The surprising silence about Old Testament fulfillment

• The unexpected absence of teaching about our future resurrection

• The unusual portrayal of the risen Jesus

• The striking prominence of women as primary witnesses

If these stories were invented later, they likely would have looked very different.

Instead, they read like something else entirely — honest reports of an event so unexpected, so disruptive, that it reshaped everything.

And if Easter really did happen… then Christianity isn’t primarily about adopting a philosophy or moral code — it’s about responding to a reality.

Because this is how the gospel always spreads: People encounter the risen Jesus… and everything changes.

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Have you ever said something in an argument and immediately thought, “That didn’t even feel like me”?

Most relational damage doesn’t begin with bad theology or evil intent. It begins when something in our brain quietly shuts off.

In this episode of our One Habit series, we unpack relational circuits — the brain’s God-designed capacity to stay connected under stress.

You’ll learn:

• What relational circuits are and why they matter

• The early warning signs they’ve gone offline

• Why conflict escalates when connection capacity drops

• A simple three-step reset to bring them back online

• How this affects your marriage, parenting, leadership, and even your experience of God

When relational circuits are off, winning matters more than love. When they’re on, connection matters more than control.

If you want to speak truth in love, be slow to anger, and lead from steadiness rather than reactivity — this habit can quietly change everything.

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