When I left my rural Midwest community as an all-wise-eighteen-year-old and was plopped into the heart of inner-city Chicago to go to school, I began…
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Author: Wendy McCready
Wendy lives in Northwest Ohio with her pastor husband Mark and two daughters. Together, she and Mark have served for over 25 years in rural and small-town pastoral ministry in both Canada and the US. Wendy works as a Behavior Specialist in a special needs charter school where she loves teaching life and social skills to help her students reach their full potential. She enjoys participating in music ministry in their church and hosting people in their home as well as walks in the park and woods behind her house. When she’s not juggling her young adult and teenage daughters’ schedules with the family’s schedule, you can find her curling up with a good book and a cup of tea.
Glory in a Small Package
How could the full glory of God be contained in one human cell–the very DNA of God shrunk down into the smallest microcosm of His…
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Secure in Being a Sinner
A preacher I heard once said that the older he gets the more he realizes how much of a sinner he is. I can relate…
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Servant or Doormat?
We have a doormat on our front porch. It’s one of those things you don’t think about too much because it’s just there all the…
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The Last Word
Okay, it’s an overused pun, but what better title for the closing article for our Living Word theme than this? Have you ever met anyone…
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My Sabbath Sin
I find it ironic that the week that I was scheduled to write an article on rest, I was a week overdue in writing it…
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The Word Everywhere You Go
I have worn corrective lenses, otherwise known as eyeglasses, since second grade. As nearsighted as I became as the years went by, my glasses became…
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Feeding Faith in the PKs
From the time my husband and I were engaged we worried about having children. What if they reject Christ? Maybe we should not have any…
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Keep the Word
I’m sure most of you reading this have had to move before. When I think about my moves over the years as pastor’s wife (and…
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The Word & the Suffering Saint
Some moments are printed on your memory never to be erased. The memory of the conversation with my friend I had in the elevator ride…
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