For sixteen years, my husband and I had a great marriage. We loved the Lord, were active in church, tithed, and taught our children about Jesus. When Rob shared he felt called to leave his field and be a pastor full time it was not a surprise; I saw it coming. Taking that leap of…
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. I Peter 5:8 (ESV) An adversary is defined as one who contends with, opposes or resists. You and I are contending with a great adversary. Whether we acknowledge him or not. He is alive and very active. …
Those are the most accurate words I could use to describe my predecessor in Women’s Ministry. From almost anyone’s account, she could (and did) do it all. She was a gifted teacher, a loving friend, and could cast a vision for dreams bigger than anyone would reasonably consider taking on. She had a heart for…
An older minister’s wife had come to me right before I was to marry my husband. Trying to be helpful, she gave me a book on how to be a minister’s wife. I was eager to learn! My fiancé and I had been in ministry together for several years, but I knew getting married would…
…leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God. Matt. 5: 24 Truth….church people get angry at one another. Sadly, it seems that sometimes the meanest people on God’s planet are His children. Have mercy! We can be angry, critical, faultfinding,…
“Jesus shouted to the crowds, “If you trust me, you are trusting not only me, but also God who sent me.” John 12:44 “But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me.” Psalms 13:5 “For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does.”…
Then Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him. (I Samuel 20:34) My husband coined a phrase in the midst of a very difficult time in ministry. “Words spoken…
“Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.” Psalms 55:22 When you’re having a bad day, what do you do? Do you complain? Do you worry? Do you get upset? We probably tend to do all three of those things. For some…
“Don’t take this so personal, she said. “This doesn’t have anything to do with our friendship. It’s just that our family doesn’t feel that we are getting everything that we need from the church(the same church where my husband was the Senior Pastor) and we believe that God is calling us to “so and so”…
He told them: “Take nothing for the journey-no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt.” (Luke 9:3) Last spring our family took a little trip together during our daughter’s school break. We drove nine hours one way to spend two days in a hotel in a snowstorm. Then we drove another nine…
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