Deep within is the need to compete. God designed us with a drive to accomplish. Before God created the heavens and the earth, Satan displayed his competitive spirit to a fault. Satan’s beauty, splendor and position as the archangel became his focus, which soon led to his demise. He burned with a desire to take […]
3 Reasons You Should Consider Coffee Shop Bible Study
I wonder what people think as we hold hands and pray. Tears drop onto the small table, coffee steaming nearby, a half-eaten cinnamon roll on a plate. I don’t even like coffee, but I love what I find in this simple half-hour “coffee shop study” with friends. Life is busy. That’s almost cliché, except it’s […]
Can Our Strengths Be Damaging?
God didn’t create women to be doormats, weak-willed airheads and pathetic losers. God created women to be iron-sharpening friends, creative life-givers and inspiring influencers. He created us to bring Him glory with our strengths. But, if we’re not careful, we can be destructively fierce instead of life-giving and inspiring — especially in our closest relationships. […]
What to Do When They Ask You to Speak
Hey Wendy, you lead our women’s ministry. You lead Bible study. You are a perfect fit! “For what?,” I asked. We need a speaker to share a short message for our next women’s event. Can you put together a quick twenty-minute message for next Thursday?” Gulp! Yes, I can lead. I can pray. I can […]
Do You Have Confidence to Obey God’s Call?
What traits do you look for in a leader? For many, leadership means having a certain strength, gravitas or personal charisma — a leader energizes a room by just walking into it. But how often do we think of humility as essential to leadership? In its most basic definition, humility is recognizing who we are […]
3 Creative Ideas to Host Impactful Events
Event planning can be fun for some and cumbersome for others. Either way, it takes a whole lot of work. There’s a reason people hire event planners who do this sort of thing for a living, right? Have you ever thought about looking at planning an event as an opportunity? Sometimes that shift in perspective […]
How You Can Make a Difference Wherever You Are
Do you ever feel like you can’t make a difference from where you are? That a plane ride of at least 12+ hours to some poverty stricken country is necessary to truly make an impact in the world? If you live in a booming metropolis or in a one red-light kind of town, God has […]
Don’t Quit Before the Miracle
It was hot and I was tired – and the mountain trail in front of me seemed to go on forever. As my delight in this beautiful journey quickly faded, I whimpered to my husband, “How much longer?” Sometimes our hikes are longer than I want, and more than I think I can handle. I’m […]
How to Defeat Loneliness in Ministry
My insides still feel anxious just thinking back to that time. It was my husband’s first ministry position and we had moved to a new area where I knew no one. I was getting ready to have my first baby, my family lived hours away and time with my husband seemed sparse because the church […]
Can You Fight Fair in Ministry?
If you’re in ministry, then you know conflict is part of the job. In college, one of my professors used to say, “Ministry would be easy if it wasn’t for the people.” Our class would always giggle because of the absurdity of that statement, but the truth is that ministry is hard work. From disagreements […]
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