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.

Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.