So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all abla….

God wants us to relieve suffering, pursue justice, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love, but He desires for us to do so in a way tha….

Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two ….

Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk fu….

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, conf….

Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness..

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope..

Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done..

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer..

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced..

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain..

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter..

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past..

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender..

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective..

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship..

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other..

Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes pla….

A leader - whether in the home, church, business, community, or government - has authority due to her role, but her positional power will not bring a….

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it..

[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been….