The Good, the Bad, and the Way Forward

2016 was a year of redirected ministry and refining of convictions for me. It was a year of saying goodbye to friends and hello to new friends. It was a year of celebrating marriages and grieving divorces. It will be a year that I remember as one that had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. A year when I couldn’t really put things into neutral.

For many of us, 2016 was a year of sharp relief. There was very little gray and a whole lot of black and white. There were a lot of jagged ed...