We all have things in our lives we've never stopped to question — they just became part of the routine without us ever deciding they would. But then there are the other things. The things we know about. The things we took with us on purpose and buried where nobody can find them. In Genesis 31, one verse stopped Chad cold. Rachel stole her father's household idols, hid them under her camel saddle, and lied about having them. She left Laban's house — but she didn't leave empty handed. The question is: what are you carrying out of your last season? And are you brave enough to look at it?

• How things enter your life through a side door.
• Laban's household idols, sitting out in the open, familiar, unquestioned, and what that looks like in your life today
• Rachel's moment, stealing, hiding, lying, and the difference between what we don't notice and what we refuse to admit
• The phone as both: the thing that's always around AND the camel bag we reach for when we're avoiding something deeper
• Chad's honest confession about choosing the scroll over the Word and what it means to force time with God instead of choose it
• The question that won't let go: are you choosing God or forcing God?
• Why hiding something from the people around you is one thing but you were never hiding it from God

"Are you choosing God or are you forcing God? And do you even know the difference anymore?"

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