The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace...We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection

Biblically, God always gives the assignment first. Then God equips the person by the Holy Spirit to accomplish what He assigns.

Some of the most miserable people we have known were those who received God's call to full-time Christian service but spent a lifetime rejecting it.

I knew from a very young age that I was going to use my voice. I've basically sounded like this since I was 9.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

God loved me before I actually was.

We — you and I — are fearfully and wonderfully made. His works are wonderful (Psalm 139:1 — 5, 13 — 14).

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.