Living Real

Has it ever occurred to you that you're a leader? Yeah, you. Don't look around at the other people there,  Y-O-U.  "I'm not a leader! I'm just a mom, married with two kids and I stay at home!" That's right! You're a leader! Those two kids see your everyday and they learn from it. You [...]

Ever have one of those days? When you wake up, your first thought is, "Ugh, do I really have to move?" That was my Tuesday morning. I had planned to join some others from the church on a day trip to Crossville, Tennessee to visit and serve at the Crossville Mission Bible Training Center, a branch [...]

I have a new husband.  Jack's always been a man of compassion and love, with that spark of silliness to boot, but he's different now. He accepted God's call to go someplace he wasn't really looking to go to. He went to Haiti.  He saw garbage-laden streets. He smelled the filth and the sewage. He [...]

When you've worked alongside someone for over ten years, especially in ministry, you get to know them. Good and bad in that. I struggle BIG TIME with low self-esteem. I will believe every stupid lie the enemy (or my own brain) throws out there about me. Fortunately, Darren knows this. UNfortunately, Darren knows this. We're [...]

Time for the new year. Wow. I'm not sure I'm ready for that! 2008 has been a tremendous year of learning for me. Finding out who I am, who God wants me to be, what He expects of me in my ministry. Is it that He just started talking? Nope, it's that Faye started listening! [...]

From a website called "Church Marketing Sucks" — lots of topics discussed there that we'd really just as soon ignore, simply because we've always done it that way…. Here's a thought or twelve about Christmas: For the Love of God Rethink Christmas We recently talked about God's bailout plan, and I brought up the point [...]

I'm thinking about "doing" Christmas differently this year. Join me?