Leaders of Leaders

02/19/2026

This powerful conversation challenges the modern pursuit of wealth, influence, and achievement at any cost. We're reminded that true fulfillment comes from prioritizing God first, family second, and letting our professional lives serve those higher callings—not replace them.

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The truth is simple but profound: we can't gain the whole world and keep our souls. Every day presents a choice—will we chase empty dopamine hits or earn lasting satisfaction through resistance and discipline? Will we sacrifice our marriages and families on the altar of business success, or will we build kingdoms that honor God?

Your time isn't renewable. Tomorrow isn't promised. The best time to get your priorities right was years ago. The next best time? Right now. Stop waiting for "someday" to pursue what matters most.

Matthew Chenard

02/18/2026

What if the hard things you’re avoiding are the exact things that will set you free?
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We chase dopamine hits—scrolling, consuming, pursuing success—but still feel empty. The truth? Real fulfillment comes from doing the hard thing: stepping into the cold plunge, prioritizing God first, investing in your marriage, building your business without sacrificing your soul.
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It’s about priorities, not balance. God. Family. Then everything else. When we get this order right, we stop justifying the sacrifice of what matters most. We stop thinking tomorrow will be our savior. The best time to start was yesterday. The next best time? Right now.
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“Give us this day our daily bread”—it’s a daily surrender, a daily choice to put first things first. Don’t gain the whole world and lose your soul in the process.
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Check out on the Leaders of Leaders Podcast (link in bio)

02/14/2026

What happens when suffering crashes into your life and steals everything you hold dear? When Lyme disease ravaged David Libby's family—his daughters, his wife, himself—the intellectual answers he'd studied weren't enough. He needed something deeper.

In this powerful conversation, David shares how philosophical arguments prove God's existence, but personal suffering proves His faithfulness. When his youngest daughter endured horrific seizures and pain, when she challenged God's goodness in the early morning hours, David discovered the ultimate answer: "You are a clam." We know nothing of God's secret counsel, yet we know He is good, righteous, and loves His people.

The refining fire is real. Suffering draws us closer to God, strengthens our faith, and stores up "an immeasurable weight of glory" for eternity (2 Corinthians 4). Even in the darkest valley, He is God and we are not—and that's exactly where we find our peace.

Check out "Glory in the Suffering by David Libby on the Leaders of Leaders podcast here: https://discipledinchrist.snappages.site/podcasts

02/09/2026

Too often we dwell on the dark moments of our lives. We are told this is just an autonomic response that takes place for our survival.
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In accordance with the naturalism model, it seems odd that we have re-categorized threats that will not take our life, as threats worthy of the freeze, flight, and fight threats. Rapid heart rate, paralyzing moments, and reactionary fighting, driven by fear, fill many of our lives so much that we look to pharma and psychotherapy for the answers. Given that most of us are hardly ever in a true freeze, flight, and fight state of being, because we have our basic needs met, it is mind-boggling that we are saying we have actual threats to our existence, when they are merely stressful and challenging obstacles in our lives.
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It seems we ought to be thankful to God for our lives, even if we are confronted daily with death through starvation, plagues, predators, and exposure, this was a reality for the early church, our frontier cousins of the 19th century, and even most people on the planet today.
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A life of thanksgiving should pour from our existence, especially if we have food, clothes, a roof over our head, and indoor plumbing, and we merely encounter friction on our way to and from work and home, and in the relationships in both places.
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Read the rest at “Thanksgiving is Greater than Blackpilling” (link in bio)

02/07/2026

After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. 3 And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples.
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4 Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. 5 Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” 6 But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
7 Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little.”
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8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, 9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?”
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10 Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11 And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” 13 Therefore they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
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John 6:1–14

02/05/2026

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
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10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
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11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
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13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
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John 4:9–14

02/04/2026

1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
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3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
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4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
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5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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John 3:1–8

02/03/2026

4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”
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5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
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6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it. 9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 10 And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
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John 2:4–10

02/02/2026

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life;
and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it not.
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John 1:1–5

01/31/2026

Are you building and fighting?

The Story of the Four men Gifted the Rigger’s Hatchet – Build and Fight, To God Be The Glory The first man was given a rigger’s hatchet, and he built and built with it. Monuments, ships, houses, churches, and hospitals. His name was known far and wide for his building. But he never fought the ...

12/27/2025

Love: The Mark of True Discipleship
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All disciplines find their goal here. “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John 13:34). Love is not sentiment; it is costly, cross-shaped action (1 John 3:16). A disciple learns to forgive as Christ forgave (Colossians 3:13), serve without recognition (Mark 10:45), speak truth in kindness (Ephesians 4:15), and lay down preferences for the sake of others. Every other spiritual discipline either fuels this love or is hollow.

11/30/2025

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