Are you trying to navigate your life on your own because you've forgotten how to trust people?We live in a culture where it is incredibly hard to trust leaders, pastors, teachers, doctors, professionals, companies.... But when we refuse to seek guidance, we end up suffering and exhausted.In this session, we look at the book of Judges to see the danger of an entire generation that lacked leadership.Even if your natural instinct is to distrust people, you cannot survive without guidance. You need a mentor to pour into you, and a biblical obligation to start pouring into someone else.

Are you making major decisions based solely on what's efficient, logical, or profitable?When things get tough, it is incredibly easy to look around at what is working for everyone else and try to copy it. In Judges 2, the Israelites got into trouble because they stopped trusting God and started copying the religious practices of the surrounding culture. Today, creators do the exact same thing: we follow the algorithms, the hustle culture, and the financial advice of the secular world without ever stopping to ask God for wisdom.Life and content creation become exponentially harder when we rely purely on secular thinking. If you only look at your problems through a physical, biological, or financial lens, you are missing out on the spiritual reality of how God operates. The secular mindset thrives on fear, telling you to panic, go into debt, and work yourself into burnout. But the biblical approach often looks like taking a Sabbath, waiting patiently, and making small, faithful steps of obedience—even if it means making less money.

It is so easy to fall into a scarcity mindset: the toxic belief that there just isn't enough success, money, or audience to go around. When we believe the system is broken and everything is unfair, we stop seeing other people as allies and start seeing them as competition.In this session, we talk about how a scarcity mindset pressures us to compromise our integrity. It tempts us to cheat, to sell things we don't believe in, and worst of all, to turn the real people in our community into "content fodder" just to make ourselves look good.The biblical way to fight the scarcity mindset isn't to hustle harder or hoard your resources—it's to be radically generous. Instead of panicking and rushing into debt the next time you face a massive hurdle or an unexpected bill, try stopping and asking: "I wonder how God is going to solve this problem?"

Have you ever felt like you're constantly under attack?The second reason life is so hard is because we are living in a battleground. Whenever you step up to do something positive, serve other people, and glorify God with your gifts, you are stepping onto an active spiritual battlefield full of trolls, misery, temptation, and an unseen reality that secular advice often completely ignores.

Lonliness brings chaos into your life.We’re starting a new six-week series talking about why life gets hard, whether in content creation or just life in general. The first thing that makes life more difficult is when we are isolated. Looking at the Book of Judges, there was no authority and accountability in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes. When you are by yourself, that is where things go completely crazy. This is the "chaos of isolation."People tend to think that if they are left alone, or if they are given more freedom, they will be able to guide themselves into happiness. But the truth is, we need walls, fences, and an edge to the sandbox so we know where we're playing. Being left alone doesn't lead to flourishing; it leads to burnout.- Left to yourself, you will go crazy. Having zero rules is actually pretty dangerous.- Retreating into a bubble because of past hurt often leads to falling into temptation, heresy, and folly because there is no one to bring correction.- Trying to create without support sucks.- You have to make the choice to find a healthy church, Discord, or friend.- You don't need a million friends.

Are you trying to be an excellent content creator, but terrified that everyone just thinks you're cringe incarnate?Insecurity is usually the wall we hit right when we’re supposed to be moving forward. When we feel that pull to create or build a community, it's so easy to throw up a million excuses. We convince ourselves our equipment isn't good enough, we're too old, or we just don't have the right personality. We end up feeling like, "I don't talk so good—please just send someone else"But here is the truth I had to learn the hard way: there is no such thing as a "lone wolf" creator. You don't have to be the visionary, the editor, the community leader, and the tech wizard all by yourself.Having gaps in your skills isn't a reason to quit. Those gaps are exactly where someone else is meant to step in and partner with you. Your insecurities might govern your speed, but they don't have to stop the work. Your vision is valuable. If you've been using your limitations as an excuse to stay obscure, it's time to connect with others and let her rip.

We’re continuing our series on common creator fears. Every content creator goes through some kind of hesitation, fear, or frustration that blocks them from being who God created them to be. For me, I’ve realized I have a sense of insecurity about abandonment. When the viewer count goes down, it’s not just a "bummer"—it’s a feeling that I’ve messed something up and people don’t like me anymore.Psychologists call this the "spotlight effect"—the tendency to overestimate how much others are noticing your flaws. But our job isn’t to come up with the perfect words or try to look powerful. Our job is to be who God created us to be and create what we believe He wants us to create.

Impostor syndrome is essentially a persistent inability to believe that your success is actually deserved. The underlying feeling is: "If they really knew...". If they knew how bad I am with time, how divided my heart is, or how little I know what I’m doing, they’d never listen.Regardless of your level of success, you still get hit with this feeling that you’re just not enough. I’ve lived this. When I was a young pastor newly out of seminary, I didn’t think I knew what I was doing, so I tried to pattern myself after others—trying to sound like Mark Driscoll or Chuck Swindoll. Even now as a streamer, I struggle with view counts because there is "no good number". If the number is high, I feel like I've fooled everybody; if it's low, I feel like it's what I deserve.But I want you to consider this: Is it possible that your fear of inadequacy will actually make you dependent on God? When God called Moses, Moses didn't list his education or power; he asked, "Who am I?". God’s response wasn't about Moses' skills—it was simply, "I will be with you".Your feeling of calling is more important than your credentials. That feeling of "I don't know what I'm doing" actually becomes a qualifier. It keeps you praying, preparing, and making sure what you say has value. I’m here to serve you, not to feed my own ego.

One of the biggest things we need to understand is that people care about *why we do what we do*. Your motives behind your content are just as factored in as your talent.Whether it's through "thin-slicing" or involuntary micro-expressions, your true intent "leaks" out through the screen. If you're in it for the clout, the money, or the ego, your audience is going to clock that "vibe" in a heartbeat.I'm not here to judge; I'm here to challenge. We need to check our hearts because if our motives are purely for display and self-success, we are going to be in real trouble when we try to serve a community. Join me as we walk through seven hard questions to audit our motives and ensure we’re creating out of genuine love and service.

Every creator dreams of going viral, having a huge charity stream, or partnering with big brands. That instinct to serve more people is a good thing! But God doesn't usually start you there. He starts you with the obscure, the mundane, and the unglamorous grind to serve a few.Before you try to grow on YouTube or Twitch, I'm walking through 5 hard questions you need to ask yourself about getting the small stuff right:- Are you actually engaging with the few people you have, or just waiting for a bigger audience? - Are you consistently putting in the prep work, or just creating when you feel like it? - Are you looking for ways to serve other creators, or only focused on your own content?- Are you paying attention to the complex, boring numbers, or completely ignoring them? If you want to be trusted with more, you have to be trustworthy with less.