What if one small daily habit could reshape your future?

In this episode of our One Practice series, we introduce a simple but powerful discipline that can dramatically increase clarity, confidence, and freedom in your financial life:

Track Every Dollar.

For the next 6–8 weeks, write down every dollar that leaves your hands. No judgment. No complicated budgeting system. Just accurate data.

Why? Because wise decisions require clear information.

When you begin to see where your money is actually going, you gain the ability to align your financial habits with your values, your goals, and your faith. This practice helps you move from feeling reactive or uncertain… to becoming intentional and confident.

We also explore the four things you can do with money: Give. Save. Spend. Borrow.

Understanding these categories helps you evaluate whether your financial patterns are leading toward freedom or creating unnecessary pressure for your future.

Jesus spoke often about stewardship because money shapes our priorities, influences our decisions, and reveals what we trust. Tracking every dollar isn’t about restriction — it’s about clarity. And clarity leads to better decisions.

Data → Assessment → Better Decisions.

This simple 5-minute daily habit can become the doorway to greater peace, generosity, margin, and purpose.

Will you take the challenge?

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In this special episode of the Encounter Grace Podcast, Jason sits down with NC Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby for a thoughtful and deeply personal conversation about faith, public service, leadership, and the spiritual foundations of freedom.

Chief Justice Newby reflects on:

• The spiritual roots of the American founding

• George Whitefield and the Great Awakening

• Why freedom requires responsibility and virtue

• How prayer and community sustain him under pressure

• Serving as a Christian in public office

• His visit to Ukraine during wartime

• The importance of Scripture, prayer, and Christian community

• Daniel, Romans 12, and living faithfully in a divided culture

• Why younger generations may be spiritually hungry again

This conversation is both encouraging and challenging as we explore what it means to pursue wisdom, integrity, courage, and faithfulness in every sphere of life.

If this episode encouraged you, make sure to subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review to help more people encounter grace.

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Why do we keep going back to things that don’t actually satisfy?

Whether it’s scrolling late at night, staying constantly busy, chasing approval, or numbing out with food, entertainment, or substances—we all have ways of coping when life feels overwhelming.

But what if those patterns aren’t just bad habits… What if they’re pointing to something deeper?

In this episode, we unpack the idea of BEEPS—Behaviors, Experiences, Events, People, and Substances—and how they become false sources of comfort when we’re dealing with unresolved emotional and relational pain.

Drawing from Scripture and insights on attachment and emotional maturity, we explore: • Why we self-soothe the way we do • How attachment pain drives unhealthy patterns • Why quick relief never leads to lasting transformation • God’s better alternative: relational healing and true comfort

This isn’t about behavior management. It’s about learning how to bring your pain to the only place it can actually be healed.

Because healing doesn’t come from escaping pain…

It comes from meeting God in it.

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