In this episode of …We Have a Spiritual Problem, Dr. Jeff Armstrong explores how our personal and collective struggles—political division, social tension, relational friction, and inner conflict—are not detours from spiritual growth but the very conditions that make it possible. Drawing from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the Omega Point, the SPIES model of holistic wellness, physiological principles of adaptation, and the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Armstrong reflects on how life’s pressure and resistance serve as catalysts for spiritual evolution. Through personal stories of marriage, family, and work, he invites listeners to consider that the friction we resist might actually be forming us into something higher—something more whole, connected, and divine.