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The Hidden Work of Becoming | The Mid-Week Memo | March 25, 2026
There’s a story often told about Chinese bamboo that feels almost too good to be true—yet it’s grounded in how growth actually works. For the first five years, Chinese bamboo shows virtually no visible progress above the soil. You water it. You tend it. You wait. And nothing seems to happen. But beneath the surface, an extensive root system is forming—strong, interconnected, and capable of supporting rapid growth when the time comes. Then, in a…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, The Mid-Week Memo, Restored in Him, Knowing & Being Known, Our Purpose | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 03/25/2026
🎙️EP164. Reclamation Part 2: The Road Back | When God Redeems the Worst Chapters of Our Story
In Part 2 of our Reclamation series, Steve and Colleen explore what it looks like to reclaim the parts of our story that were shaped by failure, shame, and consequences. In this deeply personal episode, Steve shares the part of his story he rarely tells publicly — the collapse of a successful real estate business in the 1980s, federal fraud charges, and the prison sentence that followed. For years, the weight of that chapter lingered quietly in the background of his.…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 03/23/2026
We Will Shine | The Mid-Week Memo | March 18, 2026
Jesus says something almost too beautiful to absorb if we’re not careful. “Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.” (Matthew 13:43) We spend a lot of time imagining heaven—and rightly so. Streets of gold. A throne blazing with uncreated light. A universe flooded with the glory of God, radiating from His presence like the sun on its brightest day. Scripture invites that imagination.…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, The Mid-Week Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 03/18/2026
From Striving to Abiding: Why Intimacy With God Grows in Everyday Rhythms | The Mid-Week Memo | March 11, 2026
Most of us don’t struggle with intimacy with Jesus because we don’t care.We struggle because we approach relationship the way we approach performance. “I should pray more.”“I need to be more disciplined.”“I just have to try harder.” Those statements sound spiritual—but they often carry more pressure than peace. Psychologists use the phrase habit stacking to describe what actually helps people change: attaching a new…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, The Mid-Week Memo, Practicing His Presence, Prayer | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 03/11/2026
🎙️EP163. Reclamation, Part 1: When Jesus Reclaims What Was Lost
In this first episode of our two-part series on Reclamation, Steve and Colleen explore what it means for Jesus to restore the parts of us that were wounded, hidden, or abandoned along the way. Framed by both current events and the deeper reality of spiritual warfare, this conversation moves from the global to the deeply personal. Steve introduces reclamation as the reclaiming of what was lost through trauma, pain, distortion, and brokenness. Colleen shares vulnerably from…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 03/09/2026
Why Fear-Based Faith Can’t Rewire the Soul | The Mid-Week Memo | March 4, 2026
Fear can make us behave.But it cannot make us whole. That’s one of the hardest truths for many of us to face—especially those of us who grew up believing that fear was a legitimate tool in God’s hands. Fear of failure. Fear of judgment. Fear of “getting it wrong.” And yet, both Scripture and science are telling us the same thing: fear is a poor architect of transformation. In the brain, sustained fear elevates stress hormones. Those hormones…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, The Mid-Week Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 03/04/2026
🎙️EP162. A New Name on a White Stone
What if the deepest battle of your life isn’t behavior… but identity? In this episode, Steve and Colleen Adams unpack Revelation 2:17—Jesus’ promise of hidden manna, a white stone, and a new name known only by the one who receives it. Together, they explore what it means to “conquer” (remain faithful when competing voices are loud), how brokenness often becomes the doorway to true identity, and why God’s naming is less about a…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/23/2026
No Little Time | The Mid-Week Memo | February 18, 2026
“And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. And they remained no little time with the disciples.” —Acts 14:27–28 (ESV) There’s a quiet holiness in that final line. After the journeys. After the risks, the opposition, the miracles, the open doors. After the stories had been told and God had been glorified… They stayed. Luke…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Mid-Week Memo, Practicing His Presence, Safe People & Safe Community, Knowing & Being Known, Our Purpose | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/18/2026
A Mirror Is Not a Companion | The Mid-Week Memo | February 11, 2026
A reflection on God’s economy of relationship Psychology experts are offering a sober reminder as AI companions gain traction: these tools function more like mirrors than actual companions. They reflect back our words, our emotions, our preferences. They can sound affirming, attentive, even caring. But they do not share life with us. They do not bring themselves to the relationship—because there is no “self” to bring. And that distinction matters…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Mid-Week Memo, Identity Security, The Hope of Healing, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/11/2026
🎙️EP161. Consecrating the Year in Light of Eternity
In this annual studio conversation, Steve sits down with Colleen and Michael Kurtz to explore a different way of beginning the year—not with pressure, resolutions, or performance, but with consecration. Instead of asking God to bless our plans, this episode invites listeners to offer the year back to Him as an act of surrender and union with Christ. Together, they discuss listening for a word or phrase for the year—not as a slogan, but as an invitation into who…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/09/2026