WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, This week was my dad's birthday. And honestly? It was much harder than I imagined. I know it's been a few months. I know grief doesn't have a timeline. I know there are going to be good days and hard days and days that surprise me. But this week was just... hard. There are some weeks when I feel like I'm doing pretty well. I'm working. I'm preaching. I'm hanging out with...
11 days ago • 4 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, Last week, we packed up and headed to Disney World. Sara, our two boys, my mom, and me, all in for the "Most Magical Place on Earth" in the middle of August. It was AWESOME! But it also was August... In Florida heat... With toddlers running on limited sleep. If you know, you know. But somewhere between the meltdowns and the popcorn, something else showed up that I wasn't...
18 days ago • 3 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, It feels like we live in a world that has forgotten how to disagree without becoming enemies. Scroll through social media for five minutes and you'll see it. Political divisions.Cultural divisions.Religious divisions.Generational divisions. Everybody has an opinion.Everybody has a side.And everybody seems to be looking for someone to blame. We're becoming really good at...
25 days ago • 3 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, You may have noticed this week's Weekly Pursuit showed up a little later than normal...Or maybe you didn't. 😂 I briefly considered pretending this was all part of a brilliant illustration about delays... but if I'm honest, it was mostly just life happening. Still... The timing made me think. So much of life doesn't happen according to our schedule. There are delays we...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, Loving people is risky. Not because love is weak.Because people are. Sometimes you pour into someone for years... and they walk away.Sometimes you believe in someone before they believe in themselves... and they forget the people who helped them stand.Sometimes you forgive. You encourage. You sacrifice. You show up. You pray. You carry burdens that aren't yours to carry....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, Your heart will beat about 100,000 times today. You won't think about a single one of them. That's the quietest miracle happening in your body right now. And most of us never even notice it. I spent some time this week at a Christian family camp, standing in front of a room full of people, trying to get them to notice it. Because here's what I told them, and it's the same...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, I wanted to let you in on something before I share it more broadly. Almost two years ago, I released Rooted Influence. Since then, I've had the opportunity to speak with churches, athletic teams, businesses, schools, and leaders across the country about what it looks like to lead with character, serve people well, and build a lasting legacy. The coolest part hasn't been...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, I've been thinking a lot this week about what great leaders actually build. Our culture tells us to build bigger platforms.Bigger businesses.Bigger ministries.Bigger bank accounts.Bigger influence. And while none of those things are inherently bad... I don't think they're the greatest measure of success. The greatest leaders don't simply build organizations...They build...
2 months ago • 1 min read
WEEKLY PURSUIT with Ryan Helping you pursue God, people, and purpose - one step at a time. ryanspencerlutz.com Hey friend, Have you ever worked really hard on something... only to realize that no matter how much effort you put into it, you simply couldn't produce the outcome you were hoping for? I've been reminded this week that there are some things only God can do. In the Old Testament, one of the words used for the Spirit of God is ruah. It's a beautiful word that means breath or wind....
2 months ago • 2 min read