Category: Equipping the Pastor’s Wife

I love looking at spring plants for sale this time of year! The dreamer side of me envisions brightly colored flowers planted in happy little…

View More A Planting of the Lord: Serving Strongly Supported in His Strength

A few years ago, Janet Newberry, founder of John 15 Academy, posted something on social media that ended with the simple, yet profound, statement: “Living…

View More Living Loved Changes Our Service

Our lives are a series of seasons. Sometimes they follow, one after the other, just as we expect them to, but at other times they…

View More When You Can’t Serve

Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do…

View More The Obedient Servant

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…

View More Before the Next 365

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…

View More Embracing the Pain of Facing My Pride

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…

View More In Training

“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 Serving with Thanksgiving

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…

View More Secure in Being a Sinner