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Connected Not Present: Did you feel that? Another vibration from your phone. What’s that? Another notification on your smartwatch. We’re inundated with connection but less connected than ever before. We could know anything about everything and everyone if we wanted to. We just never stopped long enough to ask if we should.

Busier But Not Better: Remember when email was supposed to make life easier? Now we leave thousands of unread messages in our inboxes because we’re overwhelmed by the mountain staring us in the face. Life can feel the same way. The more we do, the harder it becomes to get through each day. Maybe the answer isn’t to do more. Maybe it’s time to adjust our rhythm.

When Life Gets More Expensive: Whether you’ve been around for 20 years or 80 years, you know one of the biggest adjustments in our lives has been in our budgets. Everything costs more money. What are we supposed to do? It’s scary and overwhelming to feel so financially insecure. Let’s try adjusting the point of it all—including the point of you.

How Do You Know If You’re Winning?: Success isn't just about what we accomplish, how much we earn, or how well we perform. It's about becoming the kind of person who brings joy, builds meaningful relationships, and makes others feel safe, valued, and encouraged. Discover what it really means to live a fulfilling life and how the way we see ourselves can shape the way we live.

Mind Your Mind: Translating a nutrition label is something most people do on a daily basis. We’re careful with what we put in our bodies but not so careful with what we put in our minds. Is there a way to be proactive about what we think about? Figuring out how to protect our minds should also be something we do on a daily basis.

Peace Out, Worry: Worry can become something we rehearse until it snowballs into anxiety, fear, and stress. But Paul gives us a different way forward. Instead of allowing our minds to spiral, we can learn to bring our worries to God in prayer—and experience a peace that doesn’t always make sense. When you think prayerfully, you live peacefully.

Reframing Your Thinking: Most people assume winning the lottery will change their life. The problem is they’ll still think how they think when they do. It’s why others interpret every circumstance in their life negatively. We have a framework always defining things for us. So maybe the only way to change our life is to reframe how we frame everything.

Train Your Brain: In the 1980s Apple had an amazing advertising campaign that consisted of just two words: think different. That’s much easier said than done though, isn’t it? Sometimes it feels like our thoughts control us instead of the other way around. So what do we do? The answer is important because every action depends on how you think.

Changing How You Think: What if the direction of your life is shaped by the direction of your thoughts? This talk explores the surprising connection between faith, neuroscience, and everyday thinking, offering practical ways to break unhealthy mental patterns, find lasting hope, and experience real life change from the inside out.

What Goes Around Comes Around: Sometimes a saying that has religious roots ends up being assumed as part of all religions. This sort of principle is one of them. The issue for someone who’s following Jesus though, is that it isn’t anywhere in the Bible. In fact, Jesus taught something more interesting, and far more difficult.

Does God Only Help Those Who Help Themselves?: Somehow we need to find just the right amount of effort to trigger God’s help. Is there a scale that measures how much helping ourselves we’ve done? If there is, we aren’t privy to it so we work extra hard, dream extra big and hope God’s feeling helpful that day. The problem with that thinking is thinking we can get God to submit to our will. In reality, we need to submit to his.

Is Money Evil?: A lot of us grew up thinking money was the root of all evil. And that had us believing that good Christians are broke Christians. But somewhere along the line, we forgot a few words in that often misquoted verse: the love of… Money itself has no moral value. How we view it and use it though, does.

Should I Trust My Heart: Oftentimes, when we’re trying to make a big decision, someone will say, “Just listen to your heart.” But instead of our heart serving us, it will frequently betray us and leave us with regret and frustration. Even though we might think that phrase comes from the Bible, it doesn’t… unless we’re talking about an entirely different heart.

Why So Much of the New Testament is Written By Paul: If you’ve ever wondered why most of the second half of the Bible is written by Paul instead of Jesus, you’re in good company. The good news is that there’s a legitimate reason. Paul spends almost every word of his letters helping us answer the question: so now what?

Is the Old Testament Meaningful: Have you ever read part of the Old Testament and wondered, "What does this have to do with me?" The answer is simpler than you think: it's a story that's going somewhere. In this talk, we'll see how Abraham, Moses, the Law, the Temple, and the Prophets all point to the same destination—Jesus.