Inside this episode: The Secret to Leading a Growing Family Ministry: Build learning into your existing schedule. Get around other leaders. Ask a lot of questions. Action Step: Look at your schedule. Determine a weekly learning time slot. Tell someone to keep you accountable. SUBSCRIBE | SHARE | RATE | COMMENT To make sure you never miss a post, subscribe to the blog! Keep your friends and co-workers up-to-date as well by sharing this post with them via email or social media.

Elizabeth Elliot writes: “Discipline, for a Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. If we didn’t have this, we wouldn’t have anything. We are meant to present it, offer it up, give it unconditionally to God for His purposes. This we are told is a “spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1) About 10 years ago I started a personal weight loss journey. After the birth of my 3rd child, I realized

A few weeks ago as I was spending some time with God and read: 1 Thessalonians 4:7b – God hasn’t invited us into a disorderly, unkempt life but into something holy and beautiful—as beautiful on the inside as the outside. Something about that verse struck me and I’ve been mulling it ever since. It’s as if it is saying that a “disorderly, unkempt life” – or, a disorganized undisciplined life – is not holy and pleasing to God. Ouch! I couldn’t help but sit and examine my own li

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a woman in ministry. I've been thinking about what this...thing...is. I grew up always wanting to be in the ministry. But in my formative years I never saw a woman in a full-time ministry position. Plenty of pastor's wives. Lots of Sunday School teachers who were ladies. But not a single woman in vocational ministry. In fact, I don't believe I met one before I was in my 30's. I did have a couple of female college profe

The last few weeks have been hard. Yesterday was especially hard. I hate to say it but women can be snarky. VERY snarky. And our Christianity doesn't exempt us from this tendency. When it hits, it hurts. Makes this hard-as-nails city girl feel a little like crying. Friendship in ministry can be a double-edged sword. In my nearly 20 years of ministry, I have learned that I need friends. But, as with many other pastor's wives, one of my biggest struggles with this ministry-life

I remember my first speaking engagement. I was asked to speak for a women's tea for a sweet little church in the mountains. My primary contact didn't give me a lot of instruction as to what she was hoping for. I didn't ask very many clarifying questions - just planned a bible study that I thought was really good and would work well. When I arrived, I found out not only was I woefully overdressed (I wore heels. WHY would ANYONE wear heels to a cabin in the mountains??), but I