Edwin Friedman, in his incredible leadership book, Failure of Nerve talks about how when humans are grouped into an unhealthy emotional system, we tend to develop this herd mentality where we get swept up and away in the general consensus of the population without critically thinking and discerning whether what we’re thinking, or acting on is inherently positive, productive, true or good.

No matter if you feel like you’ve been given 1, 2, or 5 bags of talent, be faithful through and through to the calling that God has placed on your life. The returns you will see will be beyond anything you could ever comprehend…

As followers of Jesus, the question that we have to continually ask is, “what kind of human being am I going to be?”

Those moments where your heart is pumping, your veins coursing, your temperature rising. In your heart you know it’s wrong but in your head, you think it could be right just this…one…time.

Have you ever seen something that you thought was too bad to be true? I know the cliché saying is, “it’s too good to be true.” But, what I want to know is if you’ve ever seen something that was too bad to be true?

If we go back to the very beginning of time, we can see that at its core, at its foundation, humanity is not inherently evil. In fact, there is nothing in heaven or here on earth that was created with the intention to become evil.

“Do you see this woman?” I love this question.

What are you doing right now—in this moment, today, this week—that’s preparing you to step into what you were born to do?

I know, pretty straightforward, but it’s true. This is fascinating; the latin root for compassion is pati, which means to suffer. The prefix, com, means with. So compassion can be literally translated as one who suffers with.

David—a shepherd boy—once went before the current King of Israel, Saul, and told him that he’d be willing to fight a giant on behalf of the nation of Israel because no one else would.

As I’ve reflected on some of my favorite movies over the years, I realized this common thread woven into many of my favorite movies and it was the idea of unlikely friends forming intimate relationships.

In Luke chapter 10, Jesus encounters, “an expert in the Law.” In other words, this guy knows his scriptures.

How do you talk about a topic as broad as anxiety? I’ve been thinking about that lately and was curious where I should start.

Have you ever noticed a plot twist of God unfolding in your life? When I think about a plot twist, I immediately think about the life of Joseph. Joseph’s story is shared in the book of Genesis and it’s a wild ride.

From the time of his youth, he was deemed a “man after God’s own heart.” He was stubborn and snarky, but he was GOOD. The goodness—in Hebrew, it’s this word TOV—the TOV circulating within him, propelled David from shepherd, to warrior, to commander, to King.

Advertisers spend billions every year attempting to convince us that perfection is attainable. Models are paid millions to persuade us that perfection is possible. All that money and all that pressure is driven through avenues of attention that attempt to monopolize our thoughts, actions, and behaviors.

How do you talk about a topic as broad as anxiety? In some form or fashion, every person reading this has most likely encountered or wrestled with some form of anxiety.

I’ve been watching a show on Netflix recently called, Manifest. In it, one of the main characters wrestles through an intense season of grief after she accidentally killed her best friend driving under the influence. For years, she has lived with the pain and regret of her choice to drive drunk and it haunts her at almost every turn. The intensity of her grief is felt.