My husband and I taught a marriage conference this weekend and we prepared some good lessons outlining basic relationship skills: be nice, respond to your…
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Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and Forgetting
The house we lived in outside of our first small-town ministry was “backwards.” The back wall of our chalet style house was patterned with many…
View More Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and ForgettingHe is Not Slow
One of the joys of ministry is seeing people come to know Christ: to see the light of Christ shining in their lives for the…
View More He is Not SlowIf it is true, as the saying goes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then I suggest that the way to…
View MoreLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church Family
A new job in pastoral ministry often means moving to a new town—a community to learn to know, love, and call home. A change in…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church FamilyLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part One
Unpack Your Boxes When we moved to a small-town we had never heard of before, for our first calling into ministry, it did not immediately…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part OneMy Pastor’s Wife
The first pastor’s wife that I remember was my very best friend’s mother. We were in Kindergarten and I thought she was such a lovely…
View More My Pastor’s WifeLet Go and Hold Fast
“For the love of Christ controls us.” (II Corinthians 5:14 NASB) How do you catch a monkey? Put a treat in a hole…
View More Let Go and Hold FastPray for Your Pastor’s Wife
Praying. How can one little word bring comfort? Peace? Encouragement? I’ve gone through some major health battles the past couple years and I believe that…
View More Pray for Your Pastor’s WifeLoving God’s Prophet, Your Preacher-Husband: Before and After the Sermon, Part Two
“Does this dress make me look fat?” Much has been made about the fact that there is no right answer for a husband whose wife…
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