In the midst of “bad nights” some of the lowest moments for me have come on the heels of feedback that I received from the students that I’m trying to serve. And it never matters if it is solicited or unsolicited, when it is negative and it hits on the wrong night, it stings.

I think defending the unborn is a worthy engagement, if that is all we do to promote life, we have missed a pretty significant part of Jesus’ clear value of life as a whole. If we are going to fight for the unborn, we should fight for the born, too.

The sudden loss of death is so jolting and so altering and it is never something that you are completely prepared for. But there is this urge to say something that matters; something that will encapsulate it all. When death comes, there comes with it a deep-seated desire to have words that somehow make sense of the whole thing.

In an American culture that has turned the gathering of the people of God into the main thing, we begin to miss the wholistic approach that happened in the first days of the New Testament church. Not only did they gather together for the proclamation of God’s Word and celebrating His faithfulness, they had a number of other customs; customs that made more disciples and made them to be more like Jesus.

Today, I was reminded that sometimes the inconvenient and unexpected produces the fertile soil for diving appointments to present themselves. The question comes down to whether or not we will capitalize on those moments when we discover them or let them slip into oblivion into the basket of potential.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. - C.S. Lewis

No matter the season you find yourself in, your capacity to lead is only amplified when you have made the space to stay filled up.