My husband pastors two small churches that are each around 150 years old. Often, as I sit in the pews I can feel the weight…
View More A Hope-filled Pastor’s Wife’s Legacy: Guarding the TrustLessons 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 BarnHope When You’re Tired
Investing in the lives of people is work – the gritty, dirty, sweaty kind. The kind that requires stretchy pants and a pony tail and…
View More Hope When You’re TiredPraying 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 HopeHope for the New Year and Every Year to Come
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 ComeHope 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 AgainWhat 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?Tension and Twinkle Lights
The tension in my neck and shoulders has been so constant the past several months that my body seems to have grown accustomed to it.…
View More Tension and Twinkle LightsHope 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 SupperHope-Filled Words: Learning to Speak Words of Hope to Ourselves (Part 2)
In October I wrote an article looking at the living hope we have in Jesus from 1 Peter 1. As we encounter and engage with…
View More Hope-Filled Words: Learning to Speak Words of Hope to Ourselves (Part 2)