Faith & Creativity

Storytelling

Jul 14, 2026

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3 min read

Nobody asked the neighborhood

Flock put AI cameras on thousands of street corners. Now towns are ripping them out.

Creativity & Process

How busy Christians write more with the ✨platinum window✨ method

Jun 27, 2025

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8 min read

How busy Christians write more with the ✨platinum window✨ method

PLUS: a writing hack you can do on the Notes app

Payton Minzenmayer

Faith & Creativity

5 ways I keep my integrity while launching and running a business

May 16, 2025

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6 min read

5 ways I keep my integrity while launching and running a business

PLUS: All the links you need 10 10x your writing

Payton Minzenmayer

Storytelling

2,000 years later, Jesus’s little stories are among the most famous in history.

May 6, 2025

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7 min read

2,000 years later, Jesus’s little stories are among the most famous in history.

Here's his secret and how you can put it into practice.

Payton Minzenmayer

Storytelling

May 3, 2025

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5 min read

God doesn't make storytelling mistakes, but this story is odd.

This is a masterclass in redemptive storytelling.

Payton Minzenmayer

Storytelling

Mar 29, 2025

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7 min read

Is the Bible a Tragedy or a Comedy?

A crash course in Aristotle's Poetics and Greek Theater!

Payton Minzenmayer

Storytelling

Mar 22, 2025

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7 min read

9 Brain-Based Storytelling Secrets Every Christian Writer Should Know

Know them. Know how to use them. Use them wisely.

Payton Minzenmayer

Faith & Creativity

Relying ONLY on business strategy will destroy you as a Christian creator.

Mar 19, 2025

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5 min read

Relying ONLY on business strategy will destroy you as a Christian creator.

PLUS: the whispers of the evil one in your ear.

Payton Minzenmayer

Storytelling

The Blueprint Every Christian Writer Should Know Before They Write Their Next Story

Dec 14, 2024

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6 min read

The Blueprint Every Christian Writer Should Know Before They Write Their Next Story

It's time to Save the Cat!

Payton Minzenmayer

Storytelling

Christian stories don't have to be cheesy or preachy. Here is how you can avoid both.

Aug 23, 2024

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2 min read

Christian stories don't have to be cheesy or preachy. Here is how you can avoid both.

Subtlety is powerful.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

With God, you have a reason to be courageous. (Judges 7:20)

Apr 2, 2024

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3 min read

With God, you have a reason to be courageous. (Judges 7:20)

An odd verse of the day series

Payton Minzenmayer

Faith & Creativity

Roll For Verse (a new video series randomizing the Bible verse of the day).

Mar 26, 2024

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3 min read

Roll For Verse (a new video series randomizing the Bible verse of the day).

Ruth 3:15

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

God has a vision for good and evil that might be inconvenient for me.

Mar 11, 2024

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3 min read

God has a vision for good and evil that might be inconvenient for me.

There’s an opening line in Proverbs that says, The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Mar 4, 2024

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3 min read

Why Friends Matter.

I have moved across the country, worked as an admissions counselor for Oklahoma Christian University, and had to travel two hours a week for a master's program.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Coherence: The Missing Piece to a Meaningful Life

Feb 27, 2024

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3 min read

Coherence: The Missing Piece to a Meaningful Life

While coherence is not a word used often, it is an amazingly important quality of our lives.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Feb 22, 2024

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3 min read

Ditching the Buffet Approach to Love

We need to seriously consider how much our lives have become tailor-made to our liking.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Feb 13, 2024

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3 min read

To have an impulse and to resist it.

Our desires are infinite and can never be satisfied through more sex, more money, more power, or more influence.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Feb 6, 2024

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3 min read

Finding Rest In A Rushed World

Jesus invites us to move away from hurry and into the relaxed rhythm of his way.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Every decision has hidden corners and unnoticeable sacrifices.

Jan 30, 2024

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3 min read

Every decision has hidden corners and unnoticeable sacrifices.

The sun beat me into the asphalt as I made a two-mile run.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Heart Like A Lover, Discipline Like A Monk

Jan 23, 2024

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3 min read

Heart Like A Lover, Discipline Like A Monk

What Love Teaches Us About Faith

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

For Those Who Continually Struggle With Low Self-Esteem.

Jan 19, 2024

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3 min read

For Those Who Continually Struggle With Low Self-Esteem.

Don't feel ashamed to read these, regardless of age, where you think you should be, or how others think about you.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

We must learn to accept things we do not like.

Jan 15, 2024

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3 min read

We must learn to accept things we do not like.

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

If you are sick of being stuck, read this.

Jan 12, 2024

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3 min read

If you are sick of being stuck, read this.

Happy 3-Minute Thursday!

Payton Minzenmayer

Storytelling

Jesus' Masterclass on Character Development

Jan 9, 2024

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3 min read

Jesus' Masterclass on Character Development

Five Unexpected Paths to Stronger Character from the Sermon on the Mount

Payton Minzenmayer

Creativity & Process

Everyone benefits when Christians get better.

Jan 5, 2024

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3 min read

Everyone benefits when Christians get better.

Four ways a Christian gets better.

Payton Minzenmayer

Faith & Creativity

Nobody asked the neighborhood

How busy Christians write more with the ✨platinum window✨ method

5 ways I keep my integrity while launching and running a business

2,000 years later, Jesus’s little stories are among the most famous in history.

God doesn't make storytelling mistakes, but this story is odd.

Is the Bible a Tragedy or a Comedy?

9 Brain-Based Storytelling Secrets Every Christian Writer Should Know

Relying ONLY on business strategy will destroy you as a Christian creator.

The Blueprint Every Christian Writer Should Know Before They Write Their Next Story

Christian stories don't have to be cheesy or preachy. Here is how you can avoid both.

With God, you have a reason to be courageous. (Judges 7:20)

Roll For Verse (a new video series randomizing the Bible verse of the day).

God has a vision for good and evil that might be inconvenient for me.

Why Friends Matter.

Coherence: The Missing Piece to a Meaningful Life

Ditching the Buffet Approach to Love

To have an impulse and to resist it.

Finding Rest In A Rushed World

Every decision has hidden corners and unnoticeable sacrifices.

Heart Like A Lover, Discipline Like A Monk

For Those Who Continually Struggle With Low Self-Esteem.

We must learn to accept things we do not like.

If you are sick of being stuck, read this.

Jesus' Masterclass on Character Development

Everyone benefits when Christians get better.

Christian Story Lab

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