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One of my favorite story books as a child was The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper which was based on an American folktale. The little blue engine felt she was not as important as the big engines that carried people and freight. But then the train that carried goodies and toys for the […]
When my husband and I got married we chose as our wedding theme Christ, Our Solid Rock. We knew God had called us to serve Him and His church together and we were convinced that He would be the One who had to be our firm foundation if we were going to persevere in marriage and […]
I spent a good part of my quiet times during the year 2020 studying prophecy and heaven. That, coupled with suddenly being thrown into a world pandemic, has taught me a couple of things: #1) I have learned that no enemy, whether it is as microscopic as a virus or as cataclysmic as the threat […]
When I was a girl my mom often taught missionary stories to our whole group of Sunday School children. I always remember her telling about the life of Amy Carmichael who was a missionary to India. As a very young girl she prayed one night that God would make her brown eyes blue like other […]
In Jane Austen’s well-known classic novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth’s sister Jane is shocked when the antagonist Wickham’s true character is revealed. “What a stroke this was for poor Jane! who would have willingly have gone through the world without believing that so much wickedness existed in the whole race of mankind, as was here […]
“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” (Romans 5:5) Anyone who has lived in North America is familiar with pigeons. I grew up in a farming country in Michigan, and I have memories of […]
In Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel The Story Girl is a scene in the orchard where the children play church, complete with a sermon preached to the young audience. I don’t know if they sang songs or prayed, but when we think of church, those things are included. As Christians, and especially as people in ministry, […]
“We missed you at the ladies meeting last night.” “I noticed you weren’t at church on Sunday. Is everything okay?” Over the years as a pastor’s wife I’ve been a part of many conversations that have begun similarly, and I have found that the reasons behind them can be as varied as the people giving […]
“Beware the people who meet you at the airport.” I’m not sure where we first heard this phrase in our ministry lives, but that advice from others who have walked the ministry leadership road before us has given my husband and me pause over the years. The premise of this statement is that the people […]
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.” (Galatians 5:14-15) If you attend a rural/small town church like me you’ve been to a few potlucks. They seem to be […]
