Mistakes are how you learn. A teacher I once worked with repeated this phrase often to our students. Most of the time, she shared it…
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Wounds Won’t Be Wasted
“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave…
View More Wounds Won’t Be WastedWhose Kingdom Are We Building?
“You’re trying to build your own kingdom.” The accusation stung as my husband and I sat in yet another meeting trying to work out conflict…
View More Whose Kingdom Are We Building?A Light in the Darkness
We’ve all stumbled in the dark. Maybe it was down a stairway, or through the kitchen at midnight, or on an unlit outdoor path. Being…
View More A Light in the DarknessThe Word and Our Negative Emotions
I don’t remember a time when I have been more angry, and I felt my anger was justified. I was in the midst of circumstances…
View More The Word and Our Negative EmotionsNever Graduating from God’s School of Wisdom
This weekend we will bring my oldest to her first year of Bible college. We will go through registration with her and help her set…
View More Never Graduating from God’s School of WisdomDouble-Decker, Chocolate-Frosted Cake
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15 It was my 12th birthday and my mom’s 50th. (Yes, we share a…
View More Double-Decker, Chocolate-Frosted CakeInterview with Pastor’s Wife Amber Fox
Amber is a dear friend whom I met through Flowers, and our families have seen each other several times during travels. She was the website…
View More Interview with Pastor’s Wife Amber FoxPrerequisite for Prayer
In college it didn’t take me too long to learn what the term “prerequisite” meant. When I looked through the academic catalogue—yes, that was in…
View More Prerequisite for PrayerFruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual Gifts
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart…
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