32 Questions Pastors Should Ask in the Job Interview My husband loves to preach. It is probably his favorite thing about ministry. Because of that, he’s always wanted to be a senior pastor. He was a youth pastor for several years after he graduated from college, and he worked as an associate pastor while in seminary. But he always planned…
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32 Questions Pastors Should Ask in the Job Interview
8 Free Ways Churches Can Show Appreciation to Their Pastor
8 Almost Free Ways Churches Can Show Appreciation to Their Pastor I love to read novels. It gives you a chance to live another life. You get to experience the life of the character. You can slip into their skin. You can be a spy or a lawyer or anything else people have thought to write about. When you finish…
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4 Reasons Every Pastor’s Wife Needs Church Friends
4 Reasons Every Pastor’s Wife Needs Church Friends We were invited to a surprise party for one of our church members a couple of weeks ago. So we went. We drove an hour and a half with our four kids to a lake house in the middle of nowhere to celebrate one of our church friends. We spent gas money…
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3 Ways Church Leaders Can Help Make Church Attendance a Habit
3 Ways Leaders Can Help to Make Church Attendance a Habit If you’re a pastor’s wife, then you know that Sundays are hard. And if you’re a pastor’s wife and Sundays aren’t hard, please send me an email at hello@fishbowlfamily.com and tell me your secret. Because Sundays are rough at my house. There’s no amount of preparation I can do…
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Amazon Prime Day Deals for Christians
Amazon Prime Day Deals for Christians If you are anything like me, shopping on Amazon is just part of life. They have great deals and free shipping, so it often makes more sense to order what my family needs and wait two days rather than go to Walmart to hunt for what we need. But it makes even more sense…
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To the Introverted Pastor’s Wife: How to Rock Your Role
To the Introverted Pastor’s Wife: How to Rock Your Role I recently learned that I am an extroverted introvert. Which really explains so much about me. I consider myself an introvert because I find social interaction kind of exhausting, BUT I’m pretty good at it. I’ve especially gotten good at being social at church which is important since I’m the…
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7 Books to Foster Ingenuity in Kids
7 Books to Foster Ingenuity in Kids I have ingenious kids. Last week, my oldest son (8) tried to make his own candle using the wax from a Babybell cheese snack. He peeled the wax off his cheese, ate the cheese, and then molded the wax wrapper into a little mountain shaped blob with a tiny twig in the middle…
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What to Do When You Feel Unappreciated as a Pastor’s Wife
What to Do When You Feel Unappreciated as a Pastor’s Wife If you’ve been a pastor’s wife for very long, chances are you’ve experienced some degree of feeling unappreciated in your role. Being a pastor’s wife is tricky because there are no actual specific qualifications for being a pastor’s wife in the Bible. So the majority of what is expected…
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5 Personal Money Rules for Pastors
Five Personal Money Rules for Pastors My husband, who works as a senior pastor, drove a Land Rover for years. He only stopped driving it because it was totaled in a wreck, and not a week goes by that he doesn’t say, “Man, I miss my Land Rover.” Now, this Land Rover was 12 years old and not a Range…
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The Experience Conference: A Pastor’s Wife’s Honest Opinion
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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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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