It’s one of the most counter-intuitive truths of our faith – Your own limitations are the gateway to a limitless God. My own energy, my…
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Category: For Pastor’s Wives
The Unknown Servant
2 Kings 5:1-5 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by…
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Stand By Your Man
“It’s so admirable how you’ve stood by your husband through all this.” As I was still reeling from the shifting opinions toward my husband, I…
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Serving Challenging People
You know when you first get to a church, and everyone is excited about the new Pastor and how he will lead? For us, that…
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Serving the Not-So-Humble Lay Leader
When I left my rural Midwest community as an all-wise-eighteen-year-old and was plopped into the heart of inner-city Chicago to go to school, I began…
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Do What Is Necessary
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat…
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Before the Next 365
As we close one year and step into the next, I invite you to pause for a moment of reflection. What has unfolded for you…
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Embracing the Pain of Facing My Pride
Do you feel the pain of your pride? The insidious, creeping thoughts, “Did they notice that I was cleaning the church bathrooms?” “Why don’t people…
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In Training
I grew up in the 60s in a small town in the Midwest. As I recall, we had no organized sports for girls and only…
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Serving with Thanksgiving
“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…
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