Our family has had a particularly stressful few years. One afternoon my husband and two teenage daughters reflected on how the women in our family…
View More Casting Up PrayersInterview with Pastor’s Wife Amber Fox
Amber is a dear friend whom I met through Flowers, and our families have seen each other several times during travels. She was the website…
View More Interview with Pastor’s Wife Amber FoxPrerequisite for Prayer
In college it didn’t take me too long to learn what the term “prerequisite” meant. When I looked through the academic catalogue—yes, that was in…
View More Prerequisite for PrayerFruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual Gifts
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart…
View More Fruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual GiftsThe Results of Your Ministry are Unknown-So Pray
“This just in, friends – the results aren’t in.” To the one with an exploding church, trying to build a bigger building, trying to keep…
View More The Results of Your Ministry are Unknown-So PrayPraying for What is Lost
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost,” Luke 19:10 Have you ever used the self-checkout lanes in Walmart? I…
View More Praying for What is LostPit Prayers: Tears & Triumph in Transition
Proverbs 14:13, “Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.” “Denna, did you forget your coffee? The mug…
View More Pit Prayers: Tears & Triumph in TransitionWhat I Learned through Recent Struggles
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing,” 1 Thessalonians 5:11. During the last six months, I have been…
View More What I Learned through Recent StrugglesPrayer in Despair
TRIGGER Warning: The following article addresses issues related to church trauma that could be upsetting. I’ve never seen a cobra rise up… (more…)
View More Prayer in DespairPrayers of Simple Faith
“Why didn’t you pray for yourself, Mom?” My daughter and I were laying in bed together praying and, when we were finished, she asked me…
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