Let's Grow | the blog

Just ahead, launching December 4th, our blog will feature a new series featuring the "confessions of a burned out pastor's wife". Have...

The fact that he simply entered our home was not the frightening factor. It was the fact that he chose to enter unexpectedly, during the nig

...we often know what we SHOULD be doing in our lives and WHY we should do it,...(but that) does not make it easy.

I don’t know how people who don’t communicate with the Lord make it. I really don’t. This life is so complicated and confusing and heartbrea

What do you do when you are supposed to be on the same team and you both feel as if you have been wronged?

...recently God has been showing me that "for such a time as this" isn’t as fairytale-like as we can view Esther’s story.

Being a woman in ministry is a great privilege, but it is not without challenge. One of the most common questions we are asked by other wo

It seems to be socially acceptable to worry about our kids or family members. I hear people say all the time, "I only worry because I c

In order to better prepare for our upcoming fall series, we are taking a brief blogging break for the next 30 days. Please take some time ov

Do you find that when you're talking to some people these days that you're on a meter of time? We are too busy.

We are constantly being strong, handling it, working it, doing it – ALL. Doing is necessary, but sometimes it's easy to get lost in the

We flourish in friendship during our teen years and our senior years. But there is a gap in the middle years of our lives where the majority

These are just a few of the statements spoken every day by a ministry wife somewhere. All too often ministers get together, give one another

The cost of ministry will not seem worth it if we are looking to the church to pay that bill.

Being Spirit-led to minister to others is a whole different ball game than being Spirit-led in my emotions, my thought life, raising my kids

Every family has their stories. You know the ones – the one about Great Aunt Edna hitting a stranger’s house with her car, the one about you

Life gets really full and really busy, and sometimes it feels like you can’t add one more thing. But today, I challenge you to add more thin

My husband, Chresten, and I celebrated 19 years of marriage in January of this year. What that means is that it's been well over 20 year

As I sat in a room of 7,000 women, I felt the Holy Spirit so gently undoing my heart as I listened to Christine Caine give a message about p

Join us this Summer at Sanctuary as we sit back around our virtual pool, kick off our flip flops, and just connect with one another.