But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of…
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My Faithfully Sure Calling
Sometimes I question my calling to be a pastor’s wife. I’m not your typical type of pastor’s wife. I didn’t go to Bible school. I…
View More My Faithfully Sure CallingI Didn’t Go to Africa
The church is warm, hot really, which isn’t surprising considering it’s the middle of summer in Kansas. My stomach sends nervous signals that make me…
View More I Didn’t Go to AfricaMy Husband (Who Happens to Be a Pastor)
I was at a ladies’ luncheon at church getting to know my new church family when one of the ladies innocently asked, “So how did…
View More My Husband (Who Happens to Be a Pastor)Intimacy or Isolation?
My husband and I taught a marriage conference this weekend and we prepared some good lessons outlining basic relationship skills: be nice, respond to your…
View More Intimacy or Isolation?Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and Forgetting
The house we lived in outside of our first small-town ministry was “backwards.” The back wall of our chalet style house was patterned with many…
View More Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and ForgettingLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church Family
A new job in pastoral ministry often means moving to a new town—a community to learn to know, love, and call home. A change in…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church FamilyLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part One
Unpack Your Boxes When we moved to a small-town we had never heard of before, for our first calling into ministry, it did not immediately…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part OneIntentional Discipleship: Obeying the Command
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of…
View More Intentional Discipleship: Obeying the Command6 Tips for Cultivating Your Marriage When Others Criticize
I love my husband. More than anyone else on the earth. In my eyes, he’s as close to perfect as it comes. (I know I…
View More 6 Tips for Cultivating Your Marriage When Others Criticize