31 Pro Tips for Pastors’ Wives When my husband and I got engaged, he was a youth minister. In an effort to prepare myself to marry a minister, I asked the senior pastor’s wife what I needed to know to be a good pastor’s wife. She told me to “learn to play the piano and stop dressing so young.” I…
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31 Pro Tips for Pastors’ Wives
The Pastor’s Wife and Vulnerability as a Ministry
The Pastor’s Wife and Vulnerability as a Ministry A few months ago, a sweet church member kept all four of our kids for the whole day. They swam, baked cookies, watched movies, and had a fantastic day. I reveled in the silence and had lunch with my husband at a restaurant and wasn’t embarrassed by my children. I picked them…
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How to Help Older Kids Sit Through Church Without Electronics
How to Help Older Kids Sit Through Church We’ve talked about transitioning kids from the nursery/children’s church to big church. It’s really tough, but doable. To read more about how to transition young kids to big church, check out our post, Four Easy Ways to Help Your Kid Sit Through Big Church. The primary ways we help younger kids learn…
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Christmas Traditions for Pastor’s Family
Christmas Traditions for Pastor’s Family A few days ago I realized while talking to someone about Christmas, that I am basically a real-life Grinch. I don’t like dragging out Christmas decorations and putting it all up knowing I’m going to have to take it all down. It feels like I’m deliberately orchestrating a really cute mess for myself. For the…
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5 Great After Church Options for Pastor’s Kids
5 Great After Church Options for Pastor’s Kids The moment church ends, I am surrounded by people. You see, I’m the pastor’s wife. People have questions and they think I have answers. Sometimes I do, and a lot of times I don’t. And for many years, I dreaded the social onslaught that occurred every Sunday morning as soon as church…
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Why Your Diet Matters as a Christian
Why Your Diet Matters as a Christian Today I had a conversation with my preteen daughter about 1 Corinthians 16:19-20. You know the verses about how your body is a temple? “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were…
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What Every Pastor’s Wife Needs to Know About Pastor Suicide
What Every Pastor’s Wife Needs to Know About Pastor Suicide To say that a pastor dying by suicide is shocking is too understated. It is heartbreaking, bowel shaking, and reality augmenting. It takes the truths you’ve known forever and somehow recasts them as lies. If you’re married to a pastor, chances are you feel the shock greater than anybody. You…
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To the Pastor’s Wife Who’s Ready to Quit
To the Pastor’s Wife Who’s Ready to Quit Hey friend. I see you. I see all the things you do that no one seems to appreciate. Related Post: What To Do When You Feel Unappreciated as a Pastor’s Wife I see how you bear up under the burdens of ministry life and help to hold up your husband when things…
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Should Pastors Tithe on Housing Allowance?
Should Pastors Tithe on Housing Allowance? One of the benefits of being in vocational ministry is that pastors can choose to designate part of their salary into a housing/parsonage/rental allowance. According to Investopedia, “Parsonage allowance is an allowance designated by the governing board of a church to its clergy or ministers for the expenses of providing and maintaining a home….
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Best Books to Teach Kids Apologetics
Best Books to Teach Kids Apologetics I was about to start this post by reminding you all how hard parenting is. Because it is. Keeping young humans alive is work, and I’m sure there are days that you’re just glad to have survived. But I’m not going to do that to you. Instead, I’ll start this post by confessing that…
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The Magic Phrase to Get Your Husband Talking
The Magic Phrase to Get Your Husband Talking I am currently a homeschooling mom to four awesome kids. Which is exactly what I wanted for seven years and is totally great most days. But there are some days that I am desperate for adult interaction and a break from my kids’ hypothetical space/body function/talking animal questions. Related Post: Why I…
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