Our ‘family’ has grown! What to do when your family grows? But not just grows, but grows with the adding of others from different cultures! Hmmm… sounds like the…
Family, Perspective, PI Blog, Transitioning
Lengthen and Strengthen
In Isaiah 54 God instructs us to spread out our tent, to lengthen our cords and strengthen our tent stakes. As school begins, I see multiple Facebook posts from…
Discipleship, Family, Kingdom Kids, Parenting, PI Blog
Playing Around with PrayGround
It was much fun and an honor to write Playing Around with PrayGround. I wrote for both parents and children’s ministers. In Matthew, Jesus gets very upset with His…
Family, Parenting, Perspective, PI Blog, Transitioning
Gathering Stones: Kids All Grown – They are Solid Stones
This May marked the year that our youngest, our baby girl, graduated from the university. She graduated from Dallas Baptist University, Suma Cum Laude in a degree of Elementary…
Family, PI Blog
Get Out of the Way
GET OUT OF THE WAY. When our 3 kids were younger we took a trip to Waco to attend World Mandate, an intensely radical missions conference. Josiah was 15,…
Family, Kindgom, Perspective, PI Blog, Transitioning
Gathering Stones: It’s a Diamond
There are so many other stones that I have collected for the Alter of Remembrance. A friend told me that she saw the makings of a book in the…
Family, PI Blog
Randy, Boone, Bethany, Hannah, Josiah, Brandi and me – FAMILY!
My family!! From the minute Randy and I married I prayed that God would use our family as a battle ax in His Kingdom against the gates of hell….
Family, Missons, Perspective, PI Blog
From Empty Arms to Making God Smile
Soon after Randy and I were married, I became pregnant. Due to some wrong responses from us to some events at the church that we were on staff at…
Family, Missons, Perspective, PI Blog
Same Song (Empty Arms), Second Verse (His Kindness Leads to Repentance)
DISCLAIMER: This is ‘my’ testimony about the loss of ‘our’ baby and what God said to ‘me’. I believe that God uses what happened to me as a clear picture of…
Discipleship, Family, Kindgom, Kingdom Kids, Parenting, Perspective, PI Blog
On the Edge But Still Tying Up Loose Ends
We once had a friend who was a world champion in speedwings. He would jump off cliffs with a kite strapped to his back! Beautiful, amazing, scary! I am…
Family, Kingdom Kids, Parenting, PI Blog
Living Our Legacy – Learning to Parent from One of the Single Most Sad Verses in the Bible
King Hezekiah had just gotten a word from the Prophet that he would die soon. He ‘turned his face to the wall and cried out to God for mercy….
Discipleship, Family, Kingdom Kids, Parenting, PI Blog
Parenting FROM a Place of Identity
God says in Proverbs 20:11, that even a small child is known by his actions . . . And in Proverbs 23:7, as a man thinks, so is he. I…