Motivation is an incredibly popular word these days. We talk about needing motivation and losing motivation. We have motivation boards on Pinterest and find our…
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Waiting Leads to a Birth
Sometimes I wonder what was in Mary’s mind as she traveled the dusty road toward Bethlehem. For me, those last days before my children’s births…
View More Waiting Leads to a BirthHe 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 DevotionalFaithful God
This spring my husband and I celebrated fifteen years of marriage, and with that nearly fifteen years of ministry. There are many who have walked…
View More Faithful GodMinistry Quagmires and the Faithful Example of Aquila and Priscilla
As I study the life of Priscilla, I imagine her life as it might have been. Here are some of my wonderings. She was Italian…
View More Ministry Quagmires and the Faithful Example of Aquila and PriscillaAbba-love
I sat in our window-lined school room where the late summer sunlight slanted across my desk. My phone blinked the length of the phone call…
View More Abba-loveFaithfulness to your Family—Keeping Them Your Primary Ministry
It was a particularly crazy time in our ministry lives (what time isn’t?!) when my husband and I were trying to juggle life with one…
View More Faithfulness to your Family—Keeping Them Your Primary MinistryFor Crying Out Loud
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a…
View More For Crying Out LoudFaithfulness in Motherhood, Marriage & Ministry: Balancing it Well
Heading into Bible college as a 19 year old, I was ready to serve the Lord with or without a husband and family. I had…
View More Faithfulness in Motherhood, Marriage & Ministry: Balancing it WellFaithfulness in Suffering
My husband and I finished reading a book from The Lamplighter Collection called The Basket of Flowers (1768) by Christoph von Schmid. The story tells…
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