“Right now, today, I can say, ‘God you are good. I have moved into a place with You that I have not been before, and I know it’s through these weaknesses and struggles in my life.’” – Gillian Marchenko Author Gillian Marchenko joins me for episode 038 as we talk about her depression, my…
From Blogs: From Christine Hoover, “How Do I Respond When People Leave Our Church?” This is such a hard part of being a pastor’s wife (and pastor too). Her advice is important: “hold people and the church lightly. Neither belong to us; all belong to God.” I love almost everything Penelope Trunk writes on homeschooling. If…
I’m bringing back “Click Here” to share what I’m reading from blogs, books, and the Bible. (Amazon affiliate links included). From Blogs: Learning to Read without Books: Supporting Your Dyslexic Homeschooler from Simple Homeschool. We used some of these methods last year and this year David is reading at grade level! If you have a struggling…
Lee became a pastor of his first church less than a year after we got married. We moved from what I thought was the perfect starter home just minutes away from the seminary we were attending, to a parsonage in a town so small it didn’t have a stop light. No grocery store. No where…
A few months ago we were hanging out with our friends Joey and Annette in their backyard around their fire pit. They brought out all the ingredients for s’mores and we got to work, melting marshmellows and trying to get the perfect amount of chocolate. My husband Lee had never made s’mores before, which the…
Lee has had conversations with different people in the last week, talking about their former pastors at our church and other churches. In two of the conversations, about two different former pastors, both people told Lee the pastors couldn’t preach well, but they sure did love their people well. Because of those conversations, Lee and…