Living from the Source means the center of gravity has shifted. The primary question is no longer “How much am I getting back?” The deeper question becomes “What is God giving me to carry and to offer, and how do I steward it wisely?”
Tag Archives: self-awareness
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Why I Left the Field
I did not leave the field of psychology because I stopped believing it had value. I left because I could no longer pretend the map was complete. A framework that begins and ends with the human person will eventually struggle to make room for a Source beyond the person.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — What Healthy Love Actually Is
Most of the confusion around boundaries, self-awareness, and “too much” love does not start with those topics themselves. It starts with the fact that many people no longer have a clear understanding of what love actually is – psychologically, philosophically, or biblically.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Self-Awareness as Refined Selfishness
What often passes for self-awareness today is less about honest examination before God and more about the skilled protection of the emotional self. The language sounds wise. The fruit is often a quieter, more sophisticated form of selfishness.
Verse & Vision | July 29, 2026
Romans 12:1 calls us to give our bodies to God as a living and holy sacrifice because of all He has done for us. In light of the gospel, our ordinary physical lives become an ongoing act of worship.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Incomplete Map
Psychology has given us a clear map for pouring from an empty self. What it cannot chart is the possibility that the pouring might not be coming from the self at all.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Self is not the Source
Psychology has a clear map for pouring from an empty self. But what if the pouring is not coming from the self at all? What if it is coming from Him – and He always replenishes?
Science and Spirituality | Body and Mind: Let the Tide Come In
Most of us were only ever taught to manage things. To perform okay. To say “I’m fine” on autopilot until we actually believed it, or at least stopped questioning it. But the body keeps an honest record of everything our mouths agreed to leave behind…
The psychological and the spiritual aren’t competing systems. Together they create a full circuit, either feeding or starving us. The longest-process things on the list of human emotions aren’t longer because they’re more powerful. They’re longer because someone kept interrupting the process.
Eventually, we have to allow the tide to come in.
Presence, Not Passage: The Hours We Don’t See | Daily Bread
Everyone I know has said it at least once this year: “Where is the time going?” But I’ve been sitting with a different question lately. Not “where is the time going,” but “when did we stop paying attention to it?” Because I don’t think time is actually disappearing. I think we are.
Dear Christians | It’s Not About A Building.
It is not about what you do in a building. It is holiness in secret, not performance in public. It’s about who you are when no one is watching.
The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds
It’s been quite a while since I’ve shared a psychology-related write-up. Recently, I saw a clip of liberal commentary that prompted a realization: even many otherwise balanced, reasonable people don’t fully understand what’s happening in the psyches of those on the radical ends of the political spectrum. And this phenomenon is not confined to oneContinueContinue reading “The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds”
Diagnostic Fatigue and Upstream Witness: Living Inside the Diagnosis
For months, I’ve continued sitting in what I can only describe as diagnostic fatigue. Not the fatigue of uncertainty, but the fatigue that comes from clarity that never seems to land. The exhaustion of repeatedly recognizing the same patterns, naming the same distortions, and watching people respond not with reflection, but with reflex. My lastContinueContinue reading “Diagnostic Fatigue and Upstream Witness: Living Inside the Diagnosis”
This Is What Bold, Unashamed Faith Looks Like
This is a transcript of a message by Bryce Crawford, only 22 years old, mixed with my own commentary. Bryce is known for his street evangelism on YouTube, but here he is standing on a massive stage, saying the kinds of things most churches are afraid to say. No fluff. No performance. No crowd-pleasing Christianity.ContinueContinue reading “This Is What Bold, Unashamed Faith Looks Like”
The Line Is Always Open
A while ago, God asked me to step away from the noise. The purpose was not just to “rest,” but to enter true solitude. It wasn’t the kind of solitude… The Line Is Always Open It’s been a while since I’ve written here. In that time, I’ve walked through a season of deliberate quiet —ContinueContinue reading “The Line Is Always Open”
The Shape of Escape: A Testimony of Climbing Out of What Almost Kept Me
There’s a term from developmental biology that stuck with me the first time I heard it: chreode. It describes a kind of groove—a well-worn path of least resistance that cells tend to follow during development. Once they start down that track, the path becomes harder to exit. It shapes them. Defines them. Holds them inContinueContinue reading “The Shape of Escape: A Testimony of Climbing Out of What Almost Kept Me”
Authenticity Unveiled | Clarity ≠ Bitterness: A reflection on spiritual boundaries, peace, and divine wisdom.
There’s a strange thing that happens when you truly wake up—not performatively, not for appearances, and certainly not to win religious approval. I mean spiritually, from the soul outward. When your eyes open to truth and your ears finally hear what the Spirit’s been whispering all along, something shifts so completely that it changes howContinueContinue reading “Authenticity Unveiled | Clarity ≠ Bitterness: A reflection on spiritual boundaries, peace, and divine wisdom.”