For many people, mentoring is not a rigid or scheduled process. However, it is intentional. My pastor’s wife, Cara, shared with me about her relationship…
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A Challenge for You in the Journey of Sanctification
Note: Numerous quotes are from another blog on the Flowers for the Pastor’s Wife website. The link to the full blog by Chelsea Hall will…
View More A Challenge for You in the Journey of SanctificationLiving in Genuine Community: Initiating mentor relationships
Since I was in college, the idea of having a mentor and being discipled was really emphasized at my Christian college. The idea of “pouring…
View More Living in Genuine Community: Initiating mentor relationshipsLessons from an Old Barn
Driving into Iowa from Illinois on Interstate 80, you enter an area designated as Smokestacks and Silos National Heritage. Despite all the commercial buildings along…
View More Lessons from an Old BarnPraying through a Psalm of Hope
I’m not sure when I began doing this, but I often find myself in town with a few minutes between appointments or before needing to…
View More Praying through a Psalm of HopeWhat Did You Expect?
Life rarely turns out the way we expect it to turn out. How often do we say, “It wasn’t supposed to be this way?” We…
View More What Did You Expect?Hope Celebrated at the Lord’s Supper
“For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” 1 Corinthians 11:26 It had…
View More Hope Celebrated at the Lord’s SupperWaves of Hope
If the heartache of 2020 was confined to a pandemic and civil unrest, things might be a little more manageable. But the craziness out there…
View More Waves of HopeBalance in the Christian Life
Ecclesiastics 1:9, “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” People…
View More Balance in the Christian LifeSharing the Hope I Have
We worship a holy God. He is perfect in every way and greater than anyone and everything else on the earth. He has no comparison.…
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