Once, as I was just learning how to bake bread, I looked into the glass bowl of my stand mixer at a cream colored goo. What was supposed to be a supple and cohesive dough, looked more like cake batter. I had to decide—would I throw it all out and start again? or would I try to salvage the seemingly unsalvageable? The first time I spoke to a room full of teenagers as a new youth pastor, my whole body shook. My knees, my hands, my voice. I read the message directly from my notes and willed myself to [...]