painful family moment became the catalyst for clarity and healing. When God allowed the “perfect storm” to surface old wounds, He also asked me one question that changed everything: “What would you have done differently?”

Isaiah 53:3 reveals a freedom most of us never learned to walk in. The commentary on this verse in The Passion Translation footnote reads: “ Jesus was the most emotionally whole and healed man to ever walk the earth. He did not absorb the insults and rejections of even his own neighbors.” That statement went straight to my heart. And what I heard the Holy Spirit whisper in response was this: “You are not damaged goods.” If Jesus—fully human, fully feeling—could walk through r

A Deceptive Trade: Platform Over Purpose One of Satan’s clever deceptions was to elevate ministry on a platform over ministry in the trenches of the world. I remember how discouraging and “less than” I felt working in the marketplace. I also remember how those with visible gifts—especially in music—were elevated, while the rest of us were relegated to audience status. Spectators instead of participants. It was a lie of limitation that produced either lazy complacency or lust—

Just what is a “roller coaster relationship”? Quite simply, it is a relationship defined by constant emotional highs and lows. It is a...