My husband and I both graduated from Bible college. We knew why we needed to counsel from God’s Word. We agreed wholeheartedly with the theories…
View More Counseling in the Small PlacesAuthor: Sarah Chadbourn
Sarah and her husband, Jonathan, are from third-generational ministry families. Their ministry experiences began in France as church planters. They then moved to a small Illinois town to help strengthen and experience the God-guided growth of a struggling church. Sarah’s husband is the Pastor of Education at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Groveland, Illinois, where she enjoys the busy life of a pastor’s wife. Sarah earned a degree in Nutritional Counseling from Calvary Bible College where she and Jonathan met. She enjoys writing, counseling, and speaking God’s truth to women of all ages. In her free time she enjoys playing piano, jogging, reading out-loud to her five children (ages 5-12), and decorating her house.
Counseling in the Small Places: You Have a Role to Play
Small-towns and rural communities are in crisis. They are rarely the wholesome communities portrayed to us on old television shows or travel magazines. Divorce, drug-addiction,…
View More Counseling in the Small Places: You Have a Role to PlayIdolatry: The Thief of Joy
I struggle with idolatry, the ultimate thief of joy. It is a daily reality that pulls my heart away from the worship of my Lord…
View More Idolatry: The Thief of JoyIntentional Discipleship: Obeying the Command
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of…
View More Intentional Discipleship: Obeying the CommandDiscipleship Preparations: Inward Focus
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God…
View More Discipleship Preparations: Inward FocusIntroduction to Discipleship
In today’s Christian culture, discipleship is a popular word. It sounds hip or modern in our discussions of ecclesiological views and practices. Yet in observing…
View More Introduction to DiscipleshipTransparency {Part 2}
It was a day that started out as any other weekday. The kids had eaten breakfast, done chores, and were sitting at the table working…
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Within the small-town church culture, transparency is both very simple and very hard. You live life closely with your people, often seeing them several times…
View More Transparency {Part 1}Time Management Foundations {Part 2}
A full planner and a busy, ministry schedule are not true measures of your spirituality or your importance as a pastor’s wife. Have you allowed yourself to fall headlong into the 21st century’s Christian ideal of busiest equals best? How easy it is for our threads to tangle or skip a loop because of a schedule that is busting at the seams.
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Fresh off the overseas mission field, I remember clearly the first Sunday we stepped into our small-town church. On the mission field, we’d learned another…
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