I've never been the victim of sexual abuse. But I know plenty of women who have.  Women who I love.  Women who have cried beside me in the dark, gripped my hands hard sharing stories from the past, and whose souls wear scars they were never meant to wear. When I saw the headlines about the recent sexual abuse report, like you, my heart revolted and sank all at the same time.  Like you, the narrative running through my head went something like: This should not be.  Not now, not ever, especially not in the church.   Yet here we are.  In a place...

Sometimes it’s easy to be full of regret – regret for doing life a certain way for so many years, regret for just now understanding or seeing something you wished you had understood so many years ago, or regret for unhealthy relational dynamics with family or friends. But I want to encourage you today – life in Christ is not about staying stuck in regret but about repentance. In fact, while regret keeps you stuck, looking backwards, repentance moves you forward. That’s because the gaze of the repentant heart can only be in one place. The...