Join Miguel Mendez and Joey Oh for the lesson study this week.

Most people aren't chasing the wrong goal. They're chasing a blurry one — or one that was never theirs to begin with.

In Part 3 of the BRAVE goals series, Seth tackles the two letters that determine whether your goal actually has gravity in your life — or just sits on a list collecting dust: Aligned and Vivid.

You can hit a goal that's big enough, risky enough, and detailed enough — and still feel nothing on the other side. Because size and stakes only matter if the goal is actually yours, and clear enough for your brain to chase. Most ambitious people aren't pursuing their dream. They're pursuing a composite dream — a Frankenstein assembled from their industry's expectations, their parents' unspoken hopes, their LinkedIn feed, and the version of themselves they were ten years ago.

Using the story of Michael Jordan walking away from the NBA at the peak of his career to play minor league baseball — a goal that was big, risky, and crystal clear, but never actually his — Seth shows why even the greatest competitor of his generation ran out of fuel in eighteen months chasing a dream that belonged to his father.

The most expensive mistake high-performing people make is succeeding at the wrong thing for a decade.

You'll walk away with three concrete moves:

• The Private Goal Test that exposes which of your goals are borrowed from someone else
• The Tuesday Test that reveals whether your goal is actually a goal or just a category
• The Subtraction Move — the hardest and most important — for clearing out the dreams that were never yours to chase

By the end of the episode, you'll be able to see your real goal sharply enough to chase it. Not the polished version. Not the version that looks good on a slide. The one that's actually yours.

You don't need more motivation. You need a clearer picture of a goal that's actually yours.

Part 3 of 4. Next up: E — Eternal. The final letter in the BRAVE framework, and the filter that separates building a career from building a life.

If this conversation would serve someone you lead or love, share it forward. And if you'd like to bring this message to your team or organization, reach out at sethyelorda.com/contact-us.

Lengwe is a doctor from Zambia. She wrote "Life Takes Time" during the pressure of her final year of medical school. She kept it to herself for three years before she finally recorded it, often heading straight to the studio after 24-hour hospital shifts.

In this episode, she shares the story behind the song, and why she believes music is one of the most underrated healing tools we have, backed by science and scripture.

Stick around until the end, where Lengwe shares what musicians can practically do to bring music therapy into their communities, no big stage required.

We'd love to hear from you! Have you ever experienced healing through music?

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How do we reach people in cities, where life moves quickly and many seem indifferent to spirituality? In this episode, we speak with Gary Krause, Director of Adventist Mission, about why cities are a key focus for mission, the challenges of sharing faith in urban environments, and whether mission strategies can be adapted across different regions of the South Pacific. 

Sermon at Newmarket Seventh-day Adventist Group in Newmarket, Canada

Newmarket Seventh-day Adventists is the official church group of the Ontario Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. In collaboration with Paradise Health Clinic, Newmarket Adventists shares life-changing Adventist health principles and the gospel in the context of the Three Angels’ Messages to prepare people for the soon coming of Christ.

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Newmarket Seventh-day Adventists

Paradise Health Clinic

Paradise Fields

One Week In Paradise

Ontario Conference of SDA

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What stops our progress, pulls us backward, paralyzing us with shame?

The past—our past—the foolish, broken history that trails each of us. None can escape its power: all feel its painful weight. Even those the world calls saints are men and women who know their brokenness most fully. The great apostle Paul famously moaned, “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Rom 7:24).

When there’s no one left to dazzle or impress, we cringe in the half-light of our memories. We’re stalked by all the things we’ve done, and increasingly, by the good we’ve left undone. What could we have been thinking?

But the grace of God shines as bright as the Son: “We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 Jn 2:2). In kindness the Father offered us in Jesus the living, breathing, open-hearted embodiment of grace. Because He willingly embraced the weight of our mistakes while making none Himself, our lives can rise above the shadows and despair. He made His mission unmistakably clear: “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (Jn 10:10).

Embrace that rich, abundant life.

And stay in grace. -Bill Knott

What stops our progress, pulls us backward, paralyzing us with shame?

The past—our past—the foolish, broken history that trails each of us. None can escape its power: all feel its painful weight. Even those the world calls saints are men and women who know their brokenness most fully. The great apostle Paul famously moaned, “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Rom 7:24).

When there’s no one left to dazzle or impress, we cringe in the half-light of our memories. We’re stalked by all the things we’ve done, and increasingly, by the good we’ve left undone. What could we have been thinking?

But the grace of God shines as bright as the Son: “We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 Jn 2:2). In kindness the Father offered us in Jesus the living, breathing, open-hearted embodiment of grace. Because He willingly embraced the weight of our mistakes while making none Himself, our lives can rise above the shadows and despair. He made His mission unmistakably clear: “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (Jn 10:10).

Embrace that rich, abundant life.

And stay in grace. -Bill Knott

Growing in a Relationship with God — Repentance and Forgiveness — The Most Expensive Robe

Join us as we study the Bible Study Guide for the second quarter of 2026 called Growing in a Relationship with God. We are studying the lesson for week 10 called Repentance and Forgiveness.    

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