Fruit Requires Fertilizer

Fruit Requires Fertilizer

Fruit Requires Fertilizer Having a 💩 week? Here’s hope. Jesus told a parable in Luke 13 about a fruit tree with no fruit. The owner told  his gardener to cut it down, it’s wasting space, but the gardener asked to give it one more chance. “Let me dig around it and put...
Why Thoughts Aren’t Prayers

Why Thoughts Aren’t Prayers

Why Thoughts Aren’t Prayers According to my car, the outside temperature was 103 degrees. But inside the car, where a glitch caused the air conditioning to intermittently stop working, it felt like the surface of the sun. My GPS showed a solid red line of...
Kind Words from Ministry Leaders

Kind Words from Ministry Leaders

Kind Words from Ministry Leaders How we met… It’s pure gold when words of endorsement come from women doing the real work of ministry, with boots on the ground and arms around their women. They know what it’s like when someone opens their brand new...
A New Excuse Not to Love My Neighbor

A New Excuse Not to Love My Neighbor

A New Excuse Not to Love My Neighbor In my continual quest to find an exception clause or asterisk to Christ’s Second Greatest Command, I have a new excuse I’m sure the Lord has never heard before: “My neighborhood is a ghost town.” Literally. I live on a guest ranch...
Autumn Outreach

Autumn Outreach

Autumn Outreach My daughter used to get on my last nerve by the last day of summer. I think this phenomena is actually God’s kindness to mothers, easing the pain of separation with the joy of independence (hers and mine!). We both looked forward to going back to...

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