Shaping the stories my children believe
For the past year or so Dana and I have been realizing that the stories we believe really shape us, our decisions, our values, what we place our hope in, everything about us. Because of this, we’ve been trying to be intentional about what stories we expose our children to…
Read MoreDreaming of a discipleship vision for my family
For years I worked in churches and spent an enormous amount of time strategizing and executing the ministry’s vision for discipleship. Teams of us would think hard and deep about our vision, where God wanted to take us, and how He wanted to take us there. Teams of us…
Read MoreFREE virtual conference for pastors wives starts today!
Just a heads up for you guys: LeadingAndLovingIt.com is hosting a FREE virtual conference over the next 4 weeks specifically for pastors wives and women in ministry. It’s called The JustONE Conference and is completely hosted live online. It features 20 speakers sharing from their personal…
Read MoreMy spiritual growth influences my children
This morning I posted a little rant on Life In Student Ministry about, “What’s missing from family-based ministry.” You should check it out if you want the full story, but I’m basically saying that family-ministry can’t be something we just try to get others to do at church — it has to be…
Read MoreDesperate prayer for our family
Single parenting absolutely scares me. Tim was out of town for several days, leaving me and the kids alone. I was so frightened about how things would go that I started praying about those days probably a week in advance, and then continued to pray several times a day during those…
Read MoreThe big rocks of ministry [video]
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The “big rocks” of our ministry have to come first. Otherwise, in the midst of everything else that fights for our attention, we’ll never fit them in at all. What are your big rocks in ministry? Your personal walk with the Lord? Your family? Your health? What distracts you from them?
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