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 2020 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 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 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.” This led to a closed-door talk with my supervisor about not making coworkers cry and then another talk with my husband…
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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 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 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 answers, I grab pants…
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How to Talk to Your Kids When Church Life Gets Ugly Y’all know what is so annoying? How churches are filled with sinners. I mean, I’m going there to try to learn more about God and be progressively more like Jesus and the place is crawling with people who don’t have their lives together and continue to make mistakes at…
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Why I’m Not Paying for College Tuition for My Kids Have you ever almost drowned? I don’t mean like you choked on a little water in the pool and thought you’d cough forever. I mean you were underwater and had given up on ever getting air in your lungs again. You were sinking and struggling to get back to the…
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How to Balance Ministry and Marriage Hey, girl. I see you. You’re at your church, and you feel a little lost. Everybody loves your husband and why shouldn’t they? He’s an awesome man of God who has surrendered his life to ministry. He’s a great pastor and preacher not to mention husband, dad, mentor, friend, etc. He is the best…
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Best Dresses for Church Can I just be honest? Sundays are rough at my house. My husband is a pastor, and so Sunday mornings are kind of a big day for him. He basically gets up, gets himself ready, and leaves. Which is totally fine, except that it leaves me with four kids to get ready and lunch to prepare…
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