Is this thing serving you? Or are you serving it? That was the question I felt God asking me as I struggled with the decision…
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Limitations are your Gateway to a Limitless God
It’s one of the most counter-intuitive truths of our faith – Your own limitations are the gateway to a limitless God. My own energy, my…
View More Limitations are your Gateway to a Limitless GodThe Unknown Servant
2 Kings 5:1-5 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by…
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“It’s so admirable how you’ve stood by your husband through all this.” As I was still reeling from the shifting opinions toward my husband, I…
View More Stand By Your ManServing Challenging People
You know when you first get to a church, and everyone is excited about the new Pastor and how he will lead? For us, that…
View More Serving Challenging PeopleServing the Not-So-Humble Lay Leader
When I left my rural Midwest community as an all-wise-eighteen-year-old and was plopped into the heart of inner-city Chicago to go to school, I began…
View More Serving the Not-So-Humble Lay LeaderDo What Is Necessary
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat…
View More Do What Is NecessaryBefore the Next 365
As we close one year and step into the next, I invite you to pause for a moment of reflection. What has unfolded for you…
View More Before the Next 365Embracing the Pain of Facing My Pride
Do you feel the pain of your pride? The insidious, creeping thoughts, “Did they notice that I was cleaning the church bathrooms?” “Why don’t people…
View More Embracing the Pain of Facing My PrideIn Training
I grew up in the 60s in a small town in the Midwest. As I recall, we had no organized sports for girls and only…
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