Vulnerability is the only avenue to feel deeply loved.

Your relationship with God is more than your productivity at work and more than your productivity in your quiet times.

Do not grow weary in doing acts of love in obscurity.

Those suffering and those helping those who suffer need sherpas who have walked the terrain of grief, these books are those sherpas.

What you need more than another sermon, another how-to book, or a self-help article is to get alone with God.

The key to fighting anxiety.

Tiredness is a symptom of a deeper reality; so it is with our spiritual fatigue. There is a distinction to be made between being tired from time to time and staying tired. That is when you need to take a more serious look, what are the symptoms revealing?

You can learn from anyone if you are willing to listen (or read).

I’ve known many pastors who have taught from a place of love. I’ve know very few pastors who I could say, loved me so deeply they gave me their self too. But for those who have loved me like that— I would follow them into any battle.

Your faithfulness in this season of waiting is just as powerful, meaningful, and precious to the Lord as what you do with the dreams, gifts, and platforms He gives you later. So prepare well.

People need pastors with informed minds and hearts that have been tendered by life.

Visiting people in the hospital is a necessary act of love for any pastor. It is also one of the most dreaded responsibilities due to its awkwardness, its gravity, and the unknown. Hospitals can be scary and intimidating places; how do we become better at hospital visits?

About six months into my seminary career; however, the excitement started to fade. God became less real to me. The God who bled and died for me became the God whom I merely read and wrote about. I eventually began to question God entirely. I went  through seasons in which I questioned my salvation, questioned the goodness of God, and even questioned the very existence of God.