“Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity,” 1…
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On Being a Church Lady
In a culture that demands formal teaching – from college degrees to seminar certificates – we often lose sight of the opportunities for informal teaching.…
View More On Being a Church LadyDiscipleship Over the Long Haul
I don’t know much about long haul truckers, but over the years people in our congregations have had this occupation, so I can imagine a…
View More Discipleship Over the Long HaulBut God…
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26 Sometimes I feel like…
View More But God…Baptismals & Baked Potatoes
We came to Mitchell Berean when I was seven years old. The parsonage was one block south in the same limestone brick style as the…
View More Baptismals & Baked PotatoesCrooked Sticks and Straight Lines
God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines. My childhood pastor used this phrase often. I find great comfort in the thought that God will…
View More Crooked Sticks and Straight LinesPruning the Dead Branches
At a plant sale many years ago, I bought a stick for $2.00. The little tag on it said that it was a redbud tree.…
View More Pruning the Dead BranchesGrowing up P.K.
“Now, don’t go telling this at school!” I used to get annoyed when I heard this reminder growing up as a preacher’s kid. Occasionally I…
View More Growing up P.K.Patience: It’s All About Timing
I’m not a patient person. I try to be, but more often than not I find myself becoming impatient. I have never liked waiting, especially…
View More Patience: It’s All About TimingMatthew 18: Forbearance and Forgiveness
Peter was a gutsy disciple who came out and said what we all silently wonder. In Matthew 18 the question of forgiveness surfaces following Jesus’…
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