From the time they can speak, we ask them the same question. Over and over, relatives ask. Friends ask, Sunday school teachers ask, random strangers ask. And our children quite cutely respond with whatever strikes their fancy at the moment. It’s fun to hear the answers, to dream with our children. To wonder what’s going… Read More The Question Every Parent Should Be Asking Their Kids
I sat on my living room couch beside one of my mentors. A retired pastor’s wife, she and I worked closely together on ladies events and funerals and a myriad of other “pastor’s wifish” things during the past five years. In the midst of constant church transition, she and her husband were a rock of… Read More PKs Need Sabbaticals Too
Some of you may remember a few years ago when missionaries Matt and Lana Cretzman lost their little 3 year old girl in an automobile accident. I watched the live streamed funeral service and it greatly impacted me. Since then, I’ve been blessed to be able to follow their story and watch God turn something… Read More If You Have Lost A Child… {Book Review and Giveaway}
It’s prevalent in families, churches, and leadership. Men and women are addicted. Kids are being exposed at even earlier ages, and yet parents give them unlimited internet access. Pastors and church leaderships often don’t see the need for accountability. Counseling appointments with church members often end as soon as internet accountability is required. The statistics… Read More Pornography: A Dychotomy of Pain and Hope {And a Giveaway from Covenant Eyes}
They’re tired. The coats and the hats and the mittens and gloves, the boots and the leggings and windbreakers are tired. It’s the middle of winter and there’s no end in sight to the snow. So the mittens? They just give up sometimes. Small Son’s mittens gave up in a big way. Those turquoise and… Read More Stories of Grace: Even Mittens
