Ambition is complicated for Christians—the hustle-culture crowd baptizes greed with Bible verses while the surrender-everything crowd makes you feel guilty for having goals at all. In this episode, we dig into Ecclesiastes and Colossians 3 to explore the difference between ambition as stewardship and ambition as idolatry. The Teacher isn’t anti-work; he’s anti-misplaced worship—building your identity on what you produce is chasing wind. We explore the warning signs that ambition has become your master (you can’t celebrate others’ success, your worth rises and falls with your results, your definition of “enough” keeps moving) and run three experiments—the motivation audit, the sabbath test, and the generosity experiment—to help you hold your goals with open hands.

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