One of my favorite pastimes is visiting and laughing with friends over food. Once the whirlwind of cleaning, coordinating, preparing, and cooking subsides I notice…
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Counseling in the Small Places
My husband and I both graduated from Bible college. We knew why we needed to counsel from God’s Word. We agreed wholeheartedly with the theories…
View More Counseling in the Small PlacesCounseling in the Small Places: You Have a Role to Play
Small-towns and rural communities are in crisis. They are rarely the wholesome communities portrayed to us on old television shows or travel magazines. Divorce, drug-addiction,…
View More Counseling in the Small Places: You Have a Role to PlayEvery Mom needs Mom Friends
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of…
View More Every Mom needs Mom FriendsFish 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 ForgettingLoving 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 OneIntentional Discipleship: Obeying the Command
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of…
View More Intentional Discipleship: Obeying the CommandDiscipleship Preparations: Inward Focus
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God…
View More Discipleship Preparations: Inward FocusIntroduction to Discipleship
In today’s Christian culture, discipleship is a popular word. It sounds hip or modern in our discussions of ecclesiological views and practices. Yet in observing…
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