The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.