3 Ways to love your spouse well on the church planting journey
What’s at stake if we plant a successful church, but fail in our marriage?
Resources on Marriage and Family
Ways to reach your community: Intro
Reaching your community with the gospel of Jesus Christ requires what I call “church-community intersections.” In …
How to Deal with Being Far From Family
“Come over to Macedonia to help us.” Macedonia? Let me translate that for you: “Far from …
How to plant your church without losing your spouse: Pay attention
If we are discussing “How to plant your church without losing your spouse,” the most significant …
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9 characteristics of a church planter: Family dynamics
We plant gospel-centered churches because it is the prescribed Great Commission strategy found in the Scripture. …
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The Emotionally Healthy Planter: Family
Where’d that come from? We’ve probably all asked this question from time to time. Something happens …
Why adoption is supposed to be hard: Part 3
What we are finding is that there is a special joy that comes from sharing in …
Why adoption is supposed to be hard: Part 2
As hard as this process has been so far—here is what we are learning, slowly and …
Why adoption is supposed to be hard: Part 1
This series of posts was originally written in November 2016. We have been home from China …
Friendship and the pastor’s wife: In friendship, resist the discomfort of receiving
On my first Sunday as a pastor’s wife, a college girl approached me with a question …
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How to keep a healthy perspective as a pastor’s wife
I was standing at the door after church, talking with folks, when a woman who’d been …
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The difference between church relationships and friendships
My husband and I have been in full-time vocational ministry since the day we were married. …
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