The Leader’s Cut with Preston Morrison

What would it look like to be so close to God that your own kids notice before anyone else does?

Most of us treat intimacy with God like a discipline to maintain, something we fit in before the real work starts. Theo Koulianos flips that order. Before God ever gave Adam a job, He asked him to walk with Him. Everything else, the calling, the ministry, the family, is a byproduct of that walk, not a substitute for it.

In this episode, Preston Morrison sits down with Theo Koulianos, husband, father, and co-leader with his wife Rachel of a ministry to marriages and families.

Theo shares how a Greek Orthodox upbringing and a Holy Spirit who discipled him when no one else could built a foundation of first love, and how a knock on a dinner table changed his definition of success.

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Intimacy with God isn’t a step toward your purpose, it is the purpose. The breakthrough you’re looking for is relational before it is ever occupational.

Have you ever lost something you never let yourself grieve?

Most of us think grief belongs at a funeral. But some of the deepest losses we carry are over a place we had to leave, a season that ended, or something we thought we’d have by now. And when grief has nowhere to go, it doesn’t disappear. It gets stored up, and it comes out somewhere else down the line.

In this episode, Preston sits down with his best friend Tim Ross for a tender, honest conversation about what it looks like to grieve in a Godly way. Tim opens up about the four years he begged God to let him move back to California, and about losing his dad just days before his book tour began. Preston names the lie so many of us live under, “I have to be strong for my family,” and what it quietly teaches the people watching us.

In this episode:

Grief isn’t weakness, and maturity doesn’t mean moving on as fast as you can. The God who is near to the brokenhearted isn’t asking you to fix it today. He’s asking you to bring Him your broken heart.

You don’t have to be a hero. Pretending it didn’t hurt always creates more hurt. Give it to Him today.

What's your part when God starts moving?

Most of us think the answer is a plan. Lonnell Williams has the plan: he's the Executive Pastor of 2819 Church, the strategist in the room and sharpened in corporate America. And he'll tell you the plan isn't what's doing it.

In this conversation, Preston sits down with Lonnell to talk about what it looks like to steward something only God can build, what it costs the people closest to it, and why consecration doesn't earn what God is doing; it just keeps you from getting in the way.

In this episode:

Jesus is building. We're stewarding. And the only way to stay in step with Him, pray.

Isolation isn't an assignment God gives. It's a choice we make, and it's costing you more than you think. You were never meant to carry the call of God by yourself. So why are you still trying?

If you're carrying something heavy right now — a calling, a family, a business, a season you can't see the end of — and you've convinced yourself it's just supposed to be you and the Lord, this episode is for you

Preston walks through what going it alone really reveals about us, what it quietly costs, and how to start leaning on the people God has already put around you. He speaks from experience, including the 40 days he shut everyone out and the two years it took to recover.

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If you've been white-knuckling the call by yourself, this one's for you.

You weren't designed to carry this alone. So stop trying.

What would you give up to keep God close?

Preston has walked with Cody Carnes and Kari Jobe Carnes for more than 25 years, going back to the early youth ministry days. In this conversation, the three of them sit down to talk about Psalm 24, what it means to have clean hands and a pure heart, and what it has costs to protect that.

Cody and Kari describe purity of heart as something closer to a garden, tended every day, one small weed at a time, because once you've felt God in the room, you never want to feel Him leave it. They're also honest that it costs you. The higher He takes you, the more it's going to cost.

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Purity of heart is not a rulebook, and it isn't something you settle once. It's a daily yes to keeping Him close, even when that means being hidden, misunderstood, or walking the other way while everyone else heads toward the lights. Cody and Kari have been paying that price for decades, and they'd tell you the same thing Preston does: blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

So keep climbing the hill.

You've got more to celebrate than you think. So why does it feel like nothing counts?

In this episode, Preston sits down with Tim Ross to talk about something they've both struggled with for years: celebrating. Not the birthday-party kind. The kind Scripture calls rejoicing — choosing joy again over what God has already done, no matter what He does next.

Tim looks back on the moments in his life he should have celebrated and didn't, and how he's learned to be intentional about it now. Preston gets called out in real time about the celebration he's been holding back with his own son — and names the lie underneath it: "you're not enough."

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If you've convinced yourself you'll celebrate when the next thing pops off — this one's for you. He's already done enough. Throw the party.

Is it strict… or is it romantic?

Most people hear the word "consecration" and think legalism—a list of rules for pastors and the overly serious. Maybe it’s something else entirely: an invitation. Because the God who is searching the whole earth for a fully devoted heart isn't sitting back on His throne deciding whether to move. He's on the edge of His seat, saying, give me one.

In this conversation, Preston sits down with Luke LeFevre, a pastor & revivalist, to talk about the price of the set-apart life, why the Western church stopped teaching it, and what God does when someone finally pays it.

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Consecration was never about earning something from God. It's about making room for Him—and refusing to compromise the intimacy that comes when He draws close. It's costly, it isn't getting cheaper, and Luke and Preston both say the same thing about it: no matter what it costs, it is always worth it.

Have you ever had God ask something of you without telling you how it's going to end? No roadmap, no snapshot of the finish line — just "go." Walking with God can feel like being handed a boarding pass with no destination printed on it, and if you aren't careful, the not knowing will convince you something is wrong.

In this episode, Preston Morrison shares what God is teaching him in a real season of unknowns and unpacks five reasons why the God who knows the end from the beginning loves to withhold the details. If you want to stop being frustrated by the silence and start seeing it as an invitation, you have to understand what God is actually doing in the land of "I don't know."

In this conversation, we're unpacking:

Flying Blind: What Preston's pilot's license taught him about walking by faith — and why "visual flight rules" faith is entry-level living. 

The Credit Trap: Why you can't take credit and bring glory at the same time. 

What the Wait Reveals: What you talk about, pray about, and gripe about in a season of unknown points straight at what you actually trust the most. 

Outcome Idolatry: Why God refuses to show you the ending — Partial obedience is still an ultimatum.

The Stops You Sprint Past: There's something on the path more important than the eventual outcome. 

If God has asked something of you and gone quiet on the details, this conversation is your reminder: His silence isn't rejection — it's an invitation to draw near.

What if the easiest thing in the world to do is grieve the Holy Spirit — and the hardest thing in the world is to keep from it?

Most of us treat the Spirit's presence like a given. Dr. R.T. Kendall has spent 70 years learning the opposite: that the third person of the Godhead is a very, very sensitive person — and He won't bend the rules for anyone. Not even a man who's been walking with Him for eight decades.

At 91 years old, Dr. Kendall is one of the most respected theologians alive — 25 years at Westminster Chapel in London, author of multiple books, including Total Forgiveness. He's also been canceled, publicly rebuked, and thrown under the bus by both sides of the church for one message he refuses to let go of — the power of word & Spirit. In this conversation, Preston sits down with him to talk about the vision that started it all, the burden he's carried for over 30 years, and the teaching that changed Preston's marriage in real time.

In this episode:

* The Silent Divorce — why the church split into "word churches" and "spirit churches," and what happens when the two remarry

* Ishmael and Isaac — the message that cost Dr. Kendall his reputation with Baptists, Reformed, and charismatics all at once

* October 31, 1955 — the vision on old US-41 that was "more real than you are right now"

* Adjusting to the Dove — a couple's discovery that reframes everything about the Spirit's presence

* Closing the Gap — Dr. Kendall's one-sentence definition of spirituality (and why mid-sentence repentance is the goal)

Do you know what grieves Him? Dr. Kendall says finding that out will change everything.

Why won't God trust you with more? What if the answer has nothing to do with your effort — and everything to do with your direction?

Most of us are chasing an upgrade: a better house, a better title, a better version of our lives. But for Korey Miller, blessing has never come from chasing it. It's come from a lifetime of making his life about others — and watching how God responds.

In this episode, Preston sits down with good friend Korey Miller to unpack a supernaturally selfless story, from keeping every employee on payroll when COVID shut down his industry because God said "wait for me," to becoming a father to a village when life didn't hand him the family he pictured. What emerges is a roadmap — the connection between how you care for others and how much God is willing to trust you with.

In this episode:

* The Roadmap to Blessing: Why supernatural care for others is the path to God's favor.

* "Wait for Me": The decision that made no business sense — and became the biggest season in Korey's company history.

* Bitterness as Fuel: Why winning out of bitterness means staying bitter to win, and what Korey burned instead.

* Direct vs. Harsh: The mentors who never sugarcoated it, and why real growth requires people who tell you the truth.

* Raised by a Village: How the boy a village poured into became a man who raises one — and what that means for everyone.

God wants to trust you with more. But if it's all about you, you're always going to be stuck with less. This conversation is about what happens when you finally make it about them.