About Tim Winders
What I Write and Talk About
I write and host conversations at the intersection of faith, leadership, the Kingdom of God, and the first-century world of the New Testament. I created Seek Go Create, a long-form podcast with more than 300 episodes. My books include Coach: A Story of Success Redefined and The Visit: The Story Continues.
Across my career, I have built businesses, coached executives, and led organizations. Those experiences shape how I write about ambition, success, loss, rebuilding, purpose, and faithful work. Much of my writing and teaching asks what changes when we encounter the New Testament in its historical setting before applying it to modern life.
When Success Came Apart
I spent much of my life believing success was a destination.
If I built enough, earned enough, led enough, and achieved enough, I thought I would eventually reach the place where life made sense. Business, money, recognition, and influence became a scoreboard for a successful life.
In many ways, I found that kind of success. Then much of it came apart.
Glori and I lost three businesses and our home. I also lost much of the identity I had built around achievement and performance. In 2013, we started over with far less than before.
That season became more than a financial or professional rebuilding. It exposed how much of my life had been shaped by the appearance of success rather than the presence of peace.
Success without peace is not success.
From the Road to Writing
Years of life on the road helped us carry less, move more slowly, and question how much we actually needed.
The idea for Coach: A Story of Success Redefined came while Glori and I were traveling in a campervan through Tongariro National Park in New Zealand. It took seven years to finish. At its center was a man being rescued from his own ambition.
Later, The Visit: The Story Continues carried that journey forward.
The words Seek Go Create came to me during one of the hardest seasons of my life. Years later, those words became the name of the podcast. The first episode was recorded from the passenger seat of our motorcoach near Coos Bay on the Oregon Coast. What began there became a place for honest conversations about leadership, faith, reinvention, purpose, and the choices that shape a life.
Reading the New Testament Differently
Over time, my study of Scripture deepened, especially as I began reading the New Testament in the order its books were written and within its first-century setting.
That study became This Generation, a long-term project helping modern readers encounter the New Testament with its original audiences and historical world in view. It grew into the NT90 reading plan, a podcast season, articles, books in development, and eventually fiction set in the first century.
I do not approach these questions as someone interested in winning arguments. I am interested in what the text meant, what we may have inherited without examining, and how greater context can lead to greater faith rather than less.
The Work
I trained as an industrial and systems engineer at Georgia Tech. Curiosity has shaped me just as much as formal education. I do not readily accept the status quo or follow tradition simply because it is familiar. I ask questions, look for patterns, and try to understand why things work the way they do.
That approach guides how I lead, build businesses, and work through complex problems. It also shapes how I study Scripture. I want to understand what the text meant to the people who first received it before deciding what it means for us.
After years on the road, Glori and I built Shalom Home as a place for peace, creativity, hospitality, and family. We have two adult children, Dulce and Joshua, and two grandchildren.
I am still building, learning, and moving forward, but I am no longer chasing the old scoreboard.
I am doing my best to think clearly in a noisy world through story, Scripture in context, and the Kingdom of God.