Jul 6, 2016 | Inspiration, Perspectives
Many of us in pastoral care prefer getting to know people in groups, on Sundays, or at meals. While group settings are helpful in building a team and a community of believers who support one another, I have found one on one relationships are truly the key to the most...
May 23, 2016 | Inspiration
Has there begun a slight indentation on the top of your desk from where you bang your head each week trying to plan yet another worship service? Have you already run out of fresh ideas for Sunday worship this year . . . and it’s February? Are you not one of the lucky...
Nov 30, 2015 | Family, Inspiration
Who do you worship with on Sunday morning? Your answer to that question might be a variety of options. You worship with your church family. Your pastoral staff. The choir or praise team. Certainly you probably worship alone, just you and God. But did you actually...
Oct 26, 2015 | Perspectives
My husband felt a call on his life as a teenager, but it was not time for the call to be acted upon. At the age of thirty-four, after attending a Promise Keepers conference, my husband announced to me that he felt called to go into ministry, and we needed to move...
Oct 15, 2015 | Inspiration
You’ve prepared an amazing, life-giving sermon for the week. In fact, this may be the most powerful message you’ve brought them all year! As you step into the sanctuary to the sound of praise and worship, you know you have 10-15 minutes before you begin your message....