Family as our Primary Ministry
Dreaming 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. Our time and...
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Listen to your kids slowly
Author Charles Swindoll once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. He got nervous and tense about it. In this book, Stress Fractures: Advice and Encouragement for Handling your Fast-Paced Life, he writes: I was snapping at my wife and our children, choking...
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My kids distract me from my marriage
Over the last few weeks I have felt personally convicted by the example Tim sets for me and our family. I don’t know if it’s a mom thing, or what, but it is so easy for me to put Hannah and Zeke above Tim on my priority list. Our kids depend on us to feed them, bathe...
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Raising pastors’ kids to embrace ministry
My parents aren’t perfect. I could easily write a list of things Dana and I are doing differently than my parents did in raising me, but they still definitely did a lot of things right. Out of my three brothers and two sisters who all grew up as pastors kids along with me,...
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Why isn’t your wife serving more in ministry?
Church member: “Why isn’t your wife helping out more with the children’s ministry?” Your first thought: “Why isn’t your wife helping out with the children’s ministry?” but what actually comes out, “What do you...
Read MorePursuing what ultimately matters more than anything else:
Our Lord, our marriage, and our children, each in ministry to each other.
Download a FREE Dave Ramsey audiobook for your kids
My sister pointed this out to me and I couldn’t help but pass it along! Through this weekend only, Dave Ramsey is offering a free kids audiobook download! No need to part with personal information, sign up for email lists, or anything like that. Just a plain and simple…
Read MoreModeling a deeper prayer life for my kids
My family makes it a habit to pray together before we eat and before bedtime. We also pray together before long car rides and sometimes over other random things. Our two-year-old loves to lead us in prayer now, and it’s so cute because she goes on and on and on and on…
Read MoreMemorizing scripture with your children, but where do we start?
Last Saturday we made a 12 hour drive from our new home in Cincinnati to my in-laws place here in Texas. On long road trips like that we let the kids watch DVDs in the car, mostly because it gives me and Dana a break from constantly digging out new snacks, picking dropped toys off…
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…
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We're two pastor's kids serving in ministry, figuring out how to honor God in our marriage and family. Read more...
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