Quite a few years back, my husband and I were two recent college graduates from two different states who fell in irreversible L.O.V.E. and made a home somewhere in the middle. It was no matter to us that we had no immediate family and only a small handful of friends in this new town, because we had ...
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Podcast E16: Let’s Talk About Discipleship In The Local Church – Pastor Perspectives – with Matthew Kruse and Patti Rosell
About our guests this week:
This week, we welcomed Pastor Matthew Kruse and women's ministry leader Patti Rosell from Seven Mile Road Church near Boston, MA. They have a podcast called Kalos Conversations which is geared towards "helping churches ...
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An Everyday Offering
One of the most humbling sets of verses in the whole Bible for me is Philippians 2:14-18. Paul writes these words right on the heels of his passage about how Christ Jesus emptied Himself, laid down everything for our sake, and went to the cross:
“Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that ...
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Squeezed Out
A few nights ago I was done.
It had been a long day; my oldest son had a disagreeable attitude that caused some tension between him and me. My husband was away for the evening at worship practice for the Sunday morning service.
It had been a mostly good day, but a long one, and by bedtime my ...
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Suffering In the Name of Christ
Matthew 5:10 says “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (NASB)
We often translate this verse to mean that those are martyred, beaten, physically harmed or wronged because they are Christians are going to receive the ...
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