Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.