On today's episode: "You know them well enough that when you hit bumps in the road with your relationship and misunderstandings come up, they’ve shown you enough of who they really are so that you can more easily see their intentions behind it all. You’ve hopefully learned enough about their history that you understand why they do the things they do. If you base your assumptions on what you learned by coming into their lives intermittently and don’t stick around to fill in the middle, you’ll misunderstand."

On today's episode: "You lead with love and grace. That’s the stuff that makes people curious enough about Jesus that they want to learn more. When people get around Him, He’ll do the heavy lifting to bring correction. That’s why we enter into a personal relationship with Him. He is the only one that can bring true transformation. And it’s funny, when you’re more concerned about the log in your eye, you can’t even see the splinters in another’s."

On today's episode: "Which is, you were never intended to carry around all of that burden. Those very feelings causing you to pause are a reminder that absent His authority in your life, you’ll never be enough. We were not created to live in isolation with a do it all attitude."

On today's episode: "What I’ve learned is that the more authentic I’ve been in who He created me to be, the less I feel like I’m struggling. Awkward and too much for people, sure, and that’s a hard feeling to combat at times, but it’s certainly less tiresome to just feel that way, instead of feeling that way and still pretending to be someone I’m not."

On today's episode: "So then, if you have accepted salvation, are the words you are about to speak or write teeing you up to speak life? To disciple? To guide the lost and lonely? The tongue has the capacity to speak the sweetest words of life and encouragement to the lost and suffering."

On today's episode: "Just as my children have no reason to doubt that I am their mother, we should have no reason to doubt that God is our Father. If we want what is best for our children, how much more does He want what’s best for us? Instead of doubting and questioning and being angry at God, why not simply choose to believe that He knows better than you?"

On today's episode: "If those things are true, it steals the beautiful and insane nature of the gift of salvation. It makes zero sense to us, but it’s not supposed to. This is a case where love truly wins."

On today's episode: "If I had been more concerned with making sure he knew how right I was and how wrong he was in his opinions, would that have opened up the moment in time for discipleship? Would it have put me in a character stance to present a life and eternity changing faith that was in line with who I am in Jesus?"

On today's episode: "I’ll just come right out and say it. We are arrogant. We really believe that we can navigate this life and do a sufficient enough job by simply believing in the name of Jesus and not actually pursuing Jesus in the ways that Romans 12:2 suggests."