AJ Enslin

I’ve spent a large part of my life around Christians. I’ve preached in churches, led ministries, built businesses with people of faith and sat with people through some very difficult seasons. So I know the language pretty well. “We’re trusting God.” “It’s in His hands.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “God has a plan.” There’s nothing wrong with those words. I’ve used most of them myself. What I’ve learned, though, is that saying something about God and actually trusting Him can be two...

I’ve probably said the words “trust God” more times than I can count. I’ve preached them. I’ve prayed them. I’ve said them to people sitting across from me while their lives were falling apart. I’ve also said them to myself in seasons when I had no idea what was going to happen next. They’re good words. I just think they can become too easy to say. Trust sounds simple when nothing important is on the line. It becomes a different conversation when the business is under pressure, someone you...

I've always had a fairly high capacity for work. Give me a problem and I'll usually want to solve it. Put something in front of me that needs building and I can get pretty absorbed in it. There have been plenty of seasons in my life where working harder genuinely helped. The danger is that you can start believing you can live that way forever. You can't. I've watched leaders produce incredible results while running at a pace that was slowly wearing them down. I've done versions of it myself....