After a late spring rain when the sun finally peeks out and I step out my front door, the word “fresh” always comes to mind.…
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Category: For Pastor’s Wives
A Planting of the Lord: Serving Strongly Supported in His Strength
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…
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Living Loved Changes Our Service
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…
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When You Can’t Serve
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…
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The Obedient Servant
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…
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Serving in View of the Finish Line
Whatever in ministry is sucking you dry, know this, your trouble has an expiration date. You are on the long road, and perhaps it feels…
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Serving in Big Ways or Small Ways
“He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers.…
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Serving is Freedom of Self
“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.…
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The ‘I Know Better’ Servant
In 2 Kings 4, we are introduced to Gehazi, the servant of Elisha. The same word used here for servant is used to describe Elisha…
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I Have Called You Friends
My husband and I were relaxing in the living room of one of the elders and wife from the first church we pastored. The camaraderie…
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