Spiritual

One morning in college, I woke up, got ready and drove to a church to buy myself a purity ring. My heart ached a little bit at the thought of it because I had already had sex before marriage, and because even at that time, the last word that I would have used to define myself was “pure.”

"In 10 months time, we had gone from 3 children to 6 children, assuming our family was complete. But we were wrong once again..."

"My parents were in there with us. My mom held me as I screamed my head off, crying my eyes out, and hyperventilating. Kenny was behind me and my dad was behind him holding him. We were all a complete wreck. I will never forget what I saw in that room that day."

"I got in the front and he put our baby in her seat. I have no memory of the rest of the night. Jake died that night. I lost my husband, and I became a widow at 18."

The pastor said their goal is to “encourage the church to be less churchy."

"We were thinking, 'We're good, normal people! Why are we the ones who have a sick baby? Why are we the ones whose baby died? Is this really happening?'"

“Those words just cut through the cloud, cut through the clutter and all the angst," said Giglio.

When she saw the look on her server's face, she was NOT gonna let this slide...