I was at a ladies’ luncheon at church getting to know my new church family when one of the ladies innocently asked, “So how did…
View More My Husband (Who Happens to Be a Pastor)Intimacy or Isolation?
My husband and I taught a marriage conference this weekend and we prepared some good lessons outlining basic relationship skills: be nice, respond to your…
View More Intimacy or Isolation?Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and Forgetting
The house we lived in outside of our first small-town ministry was “backwards.” The back wall of our chalet style house was patterned with many…
View More Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and ForgettingHe is Not Slow
One of the joys of ministry is seeing people come to know Christ: to see the light of Christ shining in their lives for the…
View More He is Not SlowIf it is true, as the saying goes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then I suggest that the way to…
View MoreLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church Family
A new job in pastoral ministry often means moving to a new town—a community to learn to know, love, and call home. A change in…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church FamilyThe Lasting Legacy of a Ministry Couple: Aquila and Priscilla, AD 49-to Present
Aquila and Priscilla show us a fascinating example of serving well together. Join rural church-planting wives, Denna Busenitz (Sandhills of NE) and Madelyn Fox (Allakaket,…
View More The Lasting Legacy of a Ministry Couple: Aquila and Priscilla, AD 49-to PresentLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part One
Unpack Your Boxes When we moved to a small-town we had never heard of before, for our first calling into ministry, it did not immediately…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part OneMy Pastor’s Wife
The first pastor’s wife that I remember was my very best friend’s mother. We were in Kindergarten and I thought she was such a lovely…
View More My Pastor’s WifeIntentional Discipleship: Obeying the Command
“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…
View More Intentional Discipleship: Obeying the Command