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What is your reaction when God seems to answer “No” to your requests? This week has been full of conversations with women who seem to be getting a “No” from God despite their earnest prayer. They’ve asked for: extra work to help ease financial …
After last week’s Missionary Wives Series, I’ve had several women ask me to write about our ministry life and what I’ve learned. So, today I am going to give you five things that I have learned so far in ministry life. These five thing have …
Difficult people are everywhere, and avoiding them is, well, unavoidable. Meeting someone with a reputation for moodiness can be most unpleasant. It can be something you actually dread! Nobody wants to be near someone who is all bitterness and spews her yuck out at every …
The question of finding godly friendships comes up quite a bit in my inbox. Maybe you can relate with having friends that just want to have fun and hang out but nobody who is willing to enter into an “iron sharpens iron” friendship with …
I am so excited to tell you about God’s faithfulness through an experience we had this weekend. In February, Rebekah told me that a two of her friends were having trouble raising support for their missions trip expenses. I began praying for ways to …
I have been brainstorming ideas for an upcoming ladies event in New Hampshire where I was asked to speak. A few weeks ago, I was discussing this with a friend, and asking her advice. I asked what she felt was the most pressing need …
UPDATE! THE WINNER IS JEN LAWTON! CONGRATS!! If you have read around here at all you know that I love Elizabeth George. And today I am so excited to be giving away one of her NEWEST books RAISING A DAUGHTER AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART! I …
Today I was asked to guest post over at Heather’s blog for her weekly column “Ministry Wife Monday” and I remembered!! (vs last week when I went skiing and forgot. Oops!) One of the most important issues facing women in the church today is the …
Yesterday, I was supposed to tell you that I was asked to guest post over at Kristy’s blog. She asked me to write about some aspect of raising daughters, so I wrote about our tendencies as mothers to build up marriage and motherhood as goals …
For whatever reason, Titus 2 mentoring brings a mix of emotions. Fear and insecurity, on the part of the older women, and frustration on the part of the younger women, who are wondering why all of the older women are MIA. I received a lot …