Plants are a hobby for me. The last time I moved I had to give away all of my houseplants, and it didn’t take long…
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Author: Wendy McCready
Wendy lives in Alma, Ontario, Canada with her husband Mark and two daughters where Mark has been the senior pastor of Alma Bible Church since the summer of 2010. Together they have served for over 15 years in rural and small-town ministry. Their previous small-town pastoral work included a church in the mountains of Colorado while Mark was in seminary, and then in northern Ontario “cottage” country upon graduation. Wendy works as an Educational Assistant in the local schools where she enjoys making community connections in order to share Christ and helping children with special challenges learn new things. She also enjoys participating in music ministry in their church and hosting people in their home.
I Have Called You Friends
My husband and I were relaxing in the living room of one of the elders and wife from the first church we pastored. The camaraderie…
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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 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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Glory in a Small Package
How could the full glory of God be contained in one human cell–the very DNA of God shrunk down into the smallest microcosm of His…
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Secure in Being a Sinner
A preacher I heard once said that the older he gets the more he realizes how much of a sinner he is. I can relate…
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Servant or Doormat?
We have a doormat on our front porch. It’s one of those things you don’t think about too much because it’s just there all the…
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The Last Word
Okay, it’s an overused pun, but what better title for the closing article for our Living Word theme than this? Have you ever met anyone…
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My Sabbath Sin
I find it ironic that the week that I was scheduled to write an article on rest, I was a week overdue in writing it…
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The Word Everywhere You Go
I have worn corrective lenses, otherwise known as eyeglasses, since second grade. As nearsighted as I became as the years went by, my glasses became…
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