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.
Passing faith to pastors’ kids [video]
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Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Doug Fields and tap into his wisdom. The first question I asked him (and most important to me as a young dad) is: “How can those of us who are serving in the church and new to parenting instill a faith into our kids that lasts as they grow up?” As much as we all hate…
Read MoreIncrease ministry income: Turn your hobby into money
In 2005 I was bored one evening. Instead of playing video games like normal, I noticed that timschmoyer.com was available, so I snagged it and and setup a blog. I had no idea what to write about really, so I just wrote about whatever was going on in my life — mostly the kind of stuff only…
Read MoreIncrease ministry income: Make your money behave!
Yesterday I introduced this topic of money on my main blog at Life In Student Ministry. I shared a bit about mine and Dana’s financial story, how stupid we were at times, and how far we’ve come over the past several years. Two weeks ago Dana shared a little bit about that story…
Read MoreHow to make your husband to wither inside
Just a little note for the laides out there: be sensitive when correcting your husband in front of other people. Your husband naturally values godly feedback from you, but if it feels condescending, critical, or like a personal attack, you’ll cause him to wither inside. Guys have two primary…
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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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