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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Category: Equipping the Pastor’s Wife
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 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…
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Before 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…
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Embracing 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…
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In 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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Serving with Thanksgiving
“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…
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Secure in Being a Sinner
A preacher I heard once said that the older he gets the more he realizes how much of a sinner he is. I can relate…
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Shepherds Need Therapy
I was folding laundry on my bed, tears slowly rolling down my cheeks as I listened to a podcast. The women I was listening to…
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