On today's episode: "But it’s an important conversation because if we never address the elephant in the room, we might get so comfortable with sin’s presence that we desensitize ourselves to how destructive it is or how detestable it is to God. If we spend all of our time proclaiming the goodness of God without ever also addressing sin so that we can all repent and rid ourselves of it, it’s possible that the same desensitization to sin will occur for the unbelievable extension of grace we are extended.

On today's episode: "Then, other times, which if I’m being honest is most of the time, He shows up in quiet moments like on a school field trip where the sun is breaking through the trees in a blinding way, as if to say “Peek-a-Boo! I see you!” It’s these moments when I have to catch my breath in gratitude that, as a Believer, His Holy Spirit lives within us so we can talk to Him as often as we like! He is with us always! Everywhere we go."

On today's episode: "We absolutely must get to work as Christians, showing the world what we’re for and not so much what we’re against. Because eventually, when people get acquainted with the measureless love that comes from Jesus, they will want to know more and Jesus will work out those details and convictions. But how can we be successful in inspiring a curiosity for Jesus when what they associate with His believers is condemnation and judgment, as if believers are perfect people without need of the crucifixion and resurrection every single day."

On today's episode: "He isn’t going to wait to address you as that when you mature or take certain steps. He’s calling you by that today, right now, exactly as you are. Because He sees the true you and your potential."

On today's episode: "If we conducted a poll for how we expected our closest friends and family act, we might give a textbook answer. We expect kindness and loyalty and other common things. In reality, however, our expectations are actually much higher for those same people. If we flipped the script, often we don’t hold ourselves to those same impossible standards for how we demand others treat us."

On today's episode: "Those smaller chutes will never grow to their full capacity, if the older, almost dead parts aren’t cut off from the root of the plant. You literally have to get in there with scissors and cut them off, so they can no longer rob the inner parts of a chance at full life. Even though those older and outer leaves are dead, they’ll still pull important, life giving things away from the center. There are other parts that seem to still have life in the stem, but the outer part

On today's episode: "It felt like a slap in the face. How could her life be cut so short? But then, The Holy Spirit reminded me that every single one of us is terminal. Each day is borrowed and no matter how soon any of us is called Home, we’re never guaranteed another. We all have a finite number of days on this Earth. Sure, putting a label on it makes the clock tick a bit louder, but each of us is walking around in early death. We are all terminal."

On today's episode: "Could anyone take a small peak at your life and walk away knowing you must be associated with Jesus? Could anyone take your conversations, your habits, your entertainment, what you’re pursuing, and walk away in confidence that you’re the one they can bring their questions about faith if they don’t yet know Jesus?"

On today's episode: "Wherever you are on the spectrum of struggle, let me encourage you that the outcome that will soon be revealed already exists in some way. Your knowing about it doesn’t somehow quicken your ability to control it. You have no control. One of the healthiest attitudes we can adopt is a surrender of our control and full recognition of who does hold the wheel."

On today's episode: "We can’t seem to just exist for all the striving to become something more. Apart from this message that society feeds us, on our own, we have always had a deep longing for more. We ate the fruit of the tree, despite being told not to, and we built towers to get us closer to Heaven. Somewhere in our broken humanity, we have forgotten that we don’t need to become God. God is the Master, everything else is just a cheap copy."