On today's episode: "Your job is not to police bad behavior. Your job is not to school people on what they should and shouldn’t do. How they should act and yes, I’ll say it, when they decide to decorate for the holidays.  Your job is not to correct the wrongs of the world and go all vigilante world justice changer. Your job is simply to love people."

On today's episode: "And here’s the thing. I am a weirdo. I’m odd. Awkward. Intense. But, everyone else is too, in their own way. It’s part of what makes us so endearing. When God created man, He didn’t place some caveat on His creation that He’d make us all uniformly perfect and incapable of doing any of the weird stuff we do. He made us all unique little snowflakes on purpose. The thing that we get twisted is believing this lie that our uniqueness is somehow bad. What’s more, that it makes us an exception to the gift of salvation. He did that for everyone."

On today's episode: "You know that little nugget of something within you that you sometimes feel like you’ll absolutely spin into orbit if you don’t share? The world needs you to share it. Because somewhere, someone is waiting on you to take that first step to pave the way for them. The same God who created an incredibly diverse and creative universe is the same God who created you."

On today's episode: "As humans, despite our greatest attempts, our creativity is still limited. We take a situation and if you’re at all like me, I believe that if only step 1 and 2 will happen, the natural consequence will be step 3. My prayers mirror that logic and I plead with God that the outcome will be such and such. When step 2 doesn’t at all look like the one I begged for, my knee jerk reaction is to consider the prayer failed. How could it possibly work out otherwise?"

On today's episode: "Walking through the front door, it all came charging back as he reached for me with panic in his stance. Suddenly, it was as if I was peering into the eyes of that same helpless 2-year-old that wanted answers as much as we did."

On today's episode: Today, there are a lot of opportunities for us to do the things that line up with what it “means to be a Christian.” But none of those outward things will ever do the incredible work of what happens when we really spend time with Jesus. The really intimate, soul-changing stuff is usually what’s happening in the dark and lonely hours when you don’t have to pretend. Don’t get me wrong, church is worth your time because you grow as a Believer. Tending to mission work is absolutely something worthy of our time. But even through the big gestures, it’s still possible to completely check out and never once check in with Jesus. It’s a matter of your heart’s posture.

On today's episode: When you find yourself in this place, you have to see it for what it is and fight tooth and nail to see that satan comes like a lion to kill, steal, and destroy. But he’s only like a lion. He tries his best to puff his chest and scare you. But, guess who is standing in front, beside, and behind you? That’s right. The real deal. The Real Lion! The One who fights our battles and even satan must bow to.

On today's episode: I felt a whisper. “It was then that I thought of you.” There was nothing, and He created everything. On this journey, sometimes walking, sometimes sprinting, sometimes (or a whole lot of the time) falling flat on my face and rolling, violently, down a hill, I’ve seen one truth come into focus more sharply than anything. God’s love for His children is unbreakable. In the dark void before anything, He thought of us.

On today's episode: Right now, there’s too much that we don’t know. There are labels we can throw around, to be sure, but at the end of the day, none of us know. This hope that sits in my heart and has become so much louder than the roar of fear or sadness, tells me that I can trust in God’s goodness in my life. And not goodness in a sense that I’ll get every prayer answered, but His goodness.