I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.