When grace moves in... guilt moves out

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

I firmly believe that the purpose of life is not this life. It is to equip us, whatever our role is going to be in the next life. And understanding God's story is really where I find the significance and purpose in my own story.

I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere.