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What does it mean to qualify for spiritual leadership?

...if you are a MINISTRY MAMA and you feel that your husband has upfront leadership and a divine calling, but you are left sitting on the cu

This is easy for ANY driven person to fall into. It didn’t feel like sin; it actually felt like being a good steward of all God had blessed

I’ve been in ministry alongside my husband for 10 years now and I’ve learned a thing or two about hurt. Today, I specifically want to share

I can visualize just where I was sitting in the dimly lit bedroom of our rent house, 16 years ago, where we housed our ministry's home...

With 21 years of itinerant ministry under my skinny snakeskin belt, I have sat across the table from many a ministry wife who either unloads

Loneliness Island can bring a girl down, if she lets it. And yes, we should throw out that life preserver for authentic friendship, even if

Once loneliness has a choke hold on an individual, it seems all the more difficult to break out of it. Often ministry wives begin to take in

Marriage is both wonderful and challenging. But when you add it to life in ministry, it is often lived out in what feels like a 'fish ta

“If you don’t want us to be in the ministry anymore, just say the word. Right now, you make the decision. What’s it gonna be?”

You are fine. Things in your life are okay. You are not going through a tragedy that’s rocking your world yet you don’t feel like there is a

At Sanctuary we are convinced that the number one tool in the enemy's toolbox targeting the Church is merely isolation. If Satan can iso

The pastor’s wife of the church I grew up in was a memorable lady. She was such a wonderful pastor’s wife, and yet, now that I think back as

Did you know that you have a backstory or an origin story? Your backstory has helped shape who you are today. Your backstory makes you compa

Here's the reality:  I can't go back and undo what I did or erase what I said, but I can decide if I am going to allow it to haunt m

Truly, one the hardest things for me early in ministry was to fully believe--for myself—what I was teaching others.

It's lonely at the top. You may have heard that statement before--most likely before you found yourself "at the top" where you

We become powerful and will bring much change into our worlds when we stop looking at each other with petty jealousies and competition and s

“It doesn’t seem like you need any help.” I was a perfectionist disguised as a collaborator, which is a fancy way of saying that I was a con

Sometimes we allow ourselves to go down the path of thinking about the worst possible outcome because, somehow, we think it helps to prepare