Question: How can you tell it is fall? Answer: Pumpkins! I’m not necessarily referring to pumpkins in the garden. No, it’s about much more than that. It’s pumpkins on every store shelf in every form you can think of—some you’d prefer not ever imagine. Pumpkins cascade across every front porch and are arranged on tables and displayed…
No, I will not abandon you as orphans – I will come to you. John 14:18 I was sitting in a crowded sanctuary surrounded by people and had this thought, “I could never come here again…I could disappear…die…or just never come, and no one would even know I was missing.” You might have had a…
I have just returned from nineteen days on the road. We have hosted 4 back to back Refresh Retreats and I have taught at a You Lead for Life Way. It has been a blessing! God has met with us at each retreat and has refreshed and renewed each woman who attended. I connected with…
Don’t you just love the outdoors! I have, and always will be a country girl at heart. It was nothing for me to be trail riding on horseback at age 3, hunting with my very own rifle at age 8, and tending cattle throughout my childhood. I spent many a Thanksgiving on a dusty, west…
I wish to squelch the rumor circulating the St. Louis area that if my husband wants to hide something from me, he puts it in the oven. Untrue–but only because my husband would never hide anything from me. Maybe I mentioned before that a friend once told me I should stop the pretense and get…
It’s Ministry! 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…
Suffering for Our Good This month marks four years of my husband serving our church as senior pastor. Four years since I stepped into my mother’s shoes as a pastor’s wife. Four years of getting to know a new group of believers, filling in the gaps of service, cooking for church dinners and funeral meals,…
Shepherding our flocks can bring great blessing, and we understand defending them against wolves is part of our job description. Unfortunately, we tend to be woefully unprepared when the sheep of our fold turn and bite! Have you ever felt when you entered the ministry someone painted a bulls-eye on your back? It seems the…
How about we all just do this thing together. Let’s simultaneously go to the pantry for something to snack on and stare at a box of instant potatoes for about three minutes. It’s true, decisions can be tough. We make a lot of difficult choices every day. That’s why I try not to judge people,…
I have a confession to make. I’ve lied to many of you, my friends and family. I didn’t mean to; I didn’t even realize I was doing it. It was several weeks, even months after it happened that I discovered I had done it. Looking back, I see now that it was pride that got…
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