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November 21, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Our Tools Stop Working: The Holy Invitation Beyond Technique

Reflections from my conversation with Matt Lozano on the Open Doors Podcast

The Wall We Don’t Talk About

Every believer hits a wall eventually—a place where the prayers that used to work feel suddenly flat, where our most trusted tools stop bearing fruit, where our best efforts feel strangely powerless.

I’ve hit these walls. So have the people I minister to. But we rarely admit it honestly.

That’s what made my recent conversation with Matt Lozano such a gift. Instead of treating these moments as failure or regression, we named them for what they really are: holy invitations. Moments when God gently exposes the quiet superstition hiding beneath our spiritual habits—the tendency to reach for formulas instead of the Father, to grasp for control rather than trust, to rely on technique more than relationship.

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