The Experience Conference: A Pastor’s Wife’s Honest Opinion If your pastor husband is anything like my pastor husband, he doesn’t actually like to be out of the pulpit on Sundays. As a person who was always quick to use up ALL of my vacation and sick days, this concept was really weird to me. But now, after doing ministry together…
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The Experience Conference: A Pastor’s Wife’s Honest Opinion
How to Not be Bitter in Bi-Vocational Ministry
How to Not Be Bitter in Bi-Vocational Ministry When my husband, Chip, graduated from seminary, we had been living in Tennessee for four years. We are from the same small town in Northeast Texas, and I desperately wanted to go home. In the time that we’d been living out of state, we’d had two babies, earned two Master’s degrees,…
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When Frugality is Bad for Your Heart
When Frugality is Bad for Your Heart Is frugality always good? My immediate answer was, “YES!!” said with a super annoyed tone so that it sounded like it needed the word, “duh.” at the end. But what about when frugality isn’t good? What about when frugality is actually BAD?!?! That can happen!?!? Read on friend. Read on. Jesus talked about…
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5 Resources to Grow Your Child’s Relationship With God
Five Resources to Grow Your Child’s Relationship With God The tagline for this blog should really be “parenting is hard” because I say it so often. But if you’ve been a parent for more than five minutes, you know that I’m right. Parenting is hard. There are a million different ways to do things and there’s no guarantee that the…
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Six Ways to Help Your Husband Be a Better Pastor
Six Ways to Help Your Husband Be a Better Pastor When your husband surrendered to ministry, he surrendered his whole life. And when you joined your life with his, your whole life was surrendered too. It’s a calling that’s incredibly heavy, even unbearable sometimes, but God gave him a helpmate when he gave him you. So are you helping him?…
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Best Modest Swimsuits for Summer 2019
Best Modest Swimsuits for Summer 2019 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – summer is my favorite season. I live in Southeast Texas where summers are oppressively hot, humid, and sticky, and I love it. And for those of you that know me in real life, you may think I’m being sarcastic. I’m not. I seriously love…
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What To Do When Your Child Misbehaves at Church
What to Do When Your Child Misbehaves at Church There was a time when the threat of being sent to the pastor’s office was a big deal. My husband tells a story about being sent to his pastor’s office when he was a boy. He and his friend Matt had been cutting up in Sunday School, and their frustrated teacher…
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To the Pastor’s Wife Striving for Perfection
To the Pastor’s Wife Striving for Perfection I once had a coworker throwing some serious shade at me. She took a “helpful” tone and proceeded to correct everything about me. I told her “Weight Watcher’s isn’t working for you.” After a talk with my supervisor and then another talk with my husband when I got home and explained the whole…
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How to Talk to Your Pastor About His Child
How to Talk to Your Pastor About His Child I am the mother of four extroverts. This is amazing to me because I am not an extrovert. I’m so introverted that I don’t like calling to order pizza or placing orders at the drive-thru or making small talk with cashiers. (I’m not sure why all my examples revolve around food…)…
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How to Minister to the Woman at Church Without Her Husband
How to Minister to the Woman at Church Without Her Husband There is a growing trend within churches today that we’ve got to deal with. It affects all churches without bias – big and small, rural and urban, black and white. It crosses denominational lines. The trend I’m talking about is the married woman at church without her husband. More…
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Ten Great Gift Ideas for Your Pastor’s Wife
Ten Gifts for Pastor’s Wife It’s March here in Texas and that means that the mornings are freezing and the afternoons are sweltering. Dressing my kids in weather appropriate clothing is an impossibility, so I now just ask them if they want to be cold in the morning or hot in the afternoon. Based on their answer, I grab pants…
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