My daughter, as a student and as a teacher, has always loved the start of a new school year. New, clean pages in notebooks. A…
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The Secret About Pastors’ Kids
My son was jumping up and down, waving his hand in front of the camera and giggling. I tried to shoo him away and nearly…
View More The Secret About Pastors’ KidsGod’s Plan for our New Year
We all want to begin the new year with a fresh start, a clean slate, a new planner with blank pages. We clean the house,…
View More God’s Plan for our New YearGod’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 MiscarriageAtmosphere and Immanuel
Christmas is about atmosphere. We all have the atmosphere ingredients that stir us. Cinnamon scented pinecones, or the smell of a fresh tree. Christmas music,…
View More Atmosphere and ImmanuelWhen You’re Just Not Feeling It
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…
View More When You’re Just Not Feeling ItWaiting 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…
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