There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash