In Jane Austen’s well-known classic novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth’s sister Jane is shocked when the antagonist Wickham’s true character is revealed. “What a stroke…
View More Hope When People Disappoint YouAuthor: 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.
Hope That Does Not Disappoint
“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been…
View More Hope That Does Not DisappointAre We Merely Playing Church?
In Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel The Story Girl is a scene in the orchard where the children play church, complete with a sermon preached to…
View More Are We Merely Playing Church?Faithfulness Amidst Social Pressures
“We missed you at the ladies meeting last night.” “I noticed you weren’t at church on Sunday. Is everything okay?” Over the years as a…
View More Faithfulness Amidst Social PressuresSurviving and Thriving in Church Politics
“Beware the people who meet you at the airport.” I’m not sure where we first heard this phrase in our ministry lives, but that advice…
View More Surviving and Thriving in Church PoliticsDon’t Devour One Another
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch…
View More Don’t Devour One AnotherLove One Another
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. But if you bite and devour one another, watch…
View More Love One AnotherA FaithFULL Ministry Marriage
I will never forget my introduction to one of the ladies from the first church in which we served as a young married couple. I…
View More A FaithFULL Ministry MarriageGod’s Faithfulness through Miscarriage
It was New Year’s 2009. I don’t remember how we rang in the new year that year, but I do remember the significant new thing…
View More God’s Faithfulness through MiscarriageHe Will Come–Advent Devotional
If you’re anything like me, you sometimes enter the Christmas season bracing yourself for the hectic schedules, feeling weary before it’s begun. Here at Flowers…
View More He Will Come–Advent Devotional