In a culture that demands formal teaching – from college degrees to seminar certificates – we often lose sight of the opportunities for informal teaching.…
View More On Being a Church LadyDiscipleship Over the Long Haul
I don’t know much about long haul truckers, but over the years people in our congregations have had this occupation, so I can imagine a…
View More Discipleship Over the Long HaulBut God…
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26 Sometimes I feel like…
View More But God…Baptismals & Baked Potatoes
We came to Mitchell Berean when I was seven years old. The parsonage was one block south in the same limestone brick style as the…
View More Baptismals & Baked PotatoesCrooked Sticks and Straight Lines
God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines. My childhood pastor used this phrase often. I find great comfort in the thought that God will…
View More Crooked Sticks and Straight LinesPruning the Dead Branches
At a plant sale many years ago, I bought a stick for $2.00. The little tag on it said that it was a redbud tree.…
View More Pruning the Dead BranchesGrowing up P.K.
“Now, don’t go telling this at school!” I used to get annoyed when I heard this reminder growing up as a preacher’s kid. Occasionally I…
View More Growing up P.K.Wait Training: Nothing Chocolate Nothing Gained
“Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known,” Jeremiah 33:3. I’ve walked…
View More Wait Training: Nothing Chocolate Nothing GainedPatience: It’s All About Timing
I’m not a patient person. I try to be, but more often than not I find myself becoming impatient. I have never liked waiting, especially…
View More Patience: It’s All About TimingMeant for Good
My “career” as one of those stereotypical troublemaker PKs started early. I was only 1 or 2 when my mom and I went to visit…
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