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 ComeAuthor: Wendy McCready
Hope 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…
View More Hope for Eternity: He Will Come AgainHope When People Disappoint You
In Jane Austen’s well-known classic novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth’s sister Jane is shocked when the antagonist Wickham’s true character is revealed. “What a stroke…
View More Hope When People Disappoint YouHope That Does Not Disappoint
“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been…
View More Hope That Does Not DisappointAre We Merely Playing Church?
In Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel The Story Girl is a scene in the orchard where the children play church, complete with a sermon preached to…
View More Are We Merely Playing Church?Faithfulness Amidst Social Pressures
“We missed you at the ladies meeting last night.” “I noticed you weren’t at church on Sunday. Is everything okay?” Over the years as a…
View More Faithfulness Amidst Social PressuresSurviving and Thriving in Church Politics
“Beware the people who meet you at the airport.” I’m not sure where we first heard this phrase in our ministry lives, but that advice…
View More Surviving and Thriving in Church PoliticsDon’t Devour One Another
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch…
View More Don’t Devour One AnotherLove One Another
“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. But if you bite and devour one another, watch…
View More Love One AnotherA FaithFULL Ministry Marriage
I will never forget my introduction to one of the ladies from the first church in which we served as a young married couple. I…
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