Rachelle Rea Cobb 4 Minute Read Maybe you moved. Or you married. Maybe you are looking for more community, a different mode of worship, or a more Bible-aligned structure. Whatever the reason, you’re in the market for a church. So you set out Sunday morning. In the family van. In the passenger seat with your husband by the wheel. Or, as…
Katie 5 Minute Read I sat down at the table across from my pastor and his wife and took a deep breath. I was about to tell them I was going to be less involved with our young adults group at church*. Two hours later with peace and their blessing, I embarked on a new adventure – creating community…
Mandy J. Hoffman 4 Minute Read Abby’s eyes were as big as saucers as she rushed up to me and exclaimed, “Mom! Uncle John said he would buy me a pony!” I smiled and winked as I explained that he was just teasing her. He also teased the kids that if they came over to their house that he and “Aunt…
Mandy J. Hoffman 5 Minute Read As wives, each of us have unique joys and challenges which God has lovingly allowed into our lives for our good (James 1:2-4) and His glory as we live life with our husbands. Some issues are the same across the board and others vary depending on our husband’s profession. If several of us got together,…
Kristy Howard 4 Minute Read Dear Young Pastor’s Wife, I started out young, too. Twenty-three. I remember the cold winter day when our brand new congregation helped my husband unload our U-Haul and move all of our worldly possessions (we didn’t even own a couch) into the parsonage of our first church. I guess I was too silly to feel…
Shannon Coe 3 Minute Read I’ve wasted a lot of time waiting for “perfect moments” that never come. A perfect worship scenario to me would be my family in the pew, together. My husband, then me and the children lined up like stair steps, perhaps the baby in my arms. No one would drop a hymn book or fall or…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Rachel Zupke I got kicked out of church at age 17. Our new youth pastor wanted to talk to me about what was coming up for the fall after I’d spent the summer traveling around the country playing basketball for college scouts. I had missed most Sundays and Wednesdays due to tournaments and practices,…
Danielle Carey 6 Minute Read My parents became Christians when I was four years old, so I can’t remember a time when church was not a part of my life vocabulary. The first church was a tiny Assemblies of God congregation which originally met at the showground of our small coal mining town. Optional Sunday extras included a sparrow or…
Callie Mitchell 5 Minute Read There was a valley, parched and dry. Even more unusual, this valley was filled with bones. Dry dead bones. A man named Ezekiel spoke to them. They attached first with sinews, formed with flesh, and then covered with skin. The man Ezekiel spoke again, and the breath of God filled them with life. They arose,…
Elisabeth Allen 3 Minute Read Beloved Friends, give yourselves, first, to God and afterwards to His Church … cheerfully and promptly, without pressure or excitement. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) At one time, I was one of those twenty-somethings who “loved Jesus, but not His church”. I was raised to go to church on Sunday as a matter of course.When I was…
Emily C. Gardner 3 Minute Read When I heard we were focusing on the church this month, my mind immediately started compiling a list of all the ways the church wasn’t meeting my needs. I thought those might make an interesting post, coming from a pastor’s wife, in an “everyone has issues with the church” kind of way. With a little one around, I’m…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 4 Minute Read When I stood at the end of the church service that morning, I didn’t expect to find her waiting for me, but there she was. We had shared a class the semester before and knew each other from around campus, and I had seen her up front playing the piano with the worship team, but I didn’t realize…
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