Kurt and hope are two of my favorite four-letter words! I used to smile, nod, and put my hope into what my farmer-pastor-husband would say,…
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A Challenge for You in the Journey of Sanctification
Note: Numerous quotes are from another blog on the Flowers for the Pastor’s Wife website. The link to the full blog by Chelsea Hall will…
View More A Challenge for You in the Journey of SanctificationMentoring and Discipling – A Titus 2 Model
You may not think you need other women, but you do. Gender-based mentoring relationships are essential for your journey of sanctification. This is one of…
View More Mentoring and Discipling – A Titus 2 ModelLiving in Genuine Community: Initiating mentor relationships
Since I was in college, the idea of having a mentor and being discipled was really emphasized at my Christian college. The idea of “pouring…
View More Living in Genuine Community: Initiating mentor relationshipsA Hope-filled Pastor’s Wife’s Legacy: Guarding the Trust
My husband pastors two small churches that are each around 150 years old. Often, as I sit in the pews I can feel the weight…
View More A Hope-filled Pastor’s Wife’s Legacy: Guarding the TrustLessons from an Old Barn
Driving into Iowa from Illinois on Interstate 80, you enter an area designated as Smokestacks and Silos National Heritage. Despite all the commercial buildings along…
View More Lessons from an Old BarnHope When You’re Tired
Investing in the lives of people is work – the gritty, dirty, sweaty kind. The kind that requires stretchy pants and a pony tail and…
View More Hope When You’re TiredPraying through a Psalm of Hope
I’m not sure when I began doing this, but I often find myself in town with a few minutes between appointments or before needing to…
View More Praying through a Psalm of HopeHope for the New Year and Every Year to Come
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…
View More Hope for the New Year and Every Year to ComeHope for Eternity: He Will Come Again
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…
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