Spiritual growth comes as a result of our growing in relationship with God. As we get to know Him, we become more like Him. Spiritual growth isn’t a process that ever ends for the believer. We continue to grow as long as we are on planet earth.
A comment on my 5th-grade report card still strikes me when I think of it today: "Lea does not take correction well." Ouch! Those comments written more than 40 years…
“What am I doing here?” It’s a question all of us have, at one time or another, asked ourselves. As I wrote in my now-famous Bollywood entry (no, not so…
I said in a recent post that my husband and I are not good fundraisers. Fundraising should be a necessary skill for missionaries, if you think about it logically. Logic…
There are times when life catches us by surprise. When things happen that we feel unprepared for, it's during those moments that we realize that no one prepares us for…
I'll do anything! Go anywhere for You God!Many of us have said those words at one time or another. In moments of great blessing, when we've seen God come through…
I spent yesterday working on home projects. We moved into our house last month and I’ve struggled to find the energy and time needed to do the fine tuning of…
We are church planters. I must have told you by now (ha, I know I have). The job description for church planters has often required us to move once we…
Some years ago when we were living in Burundi, we were having visitors over for dinner. I fussed and fussed. I felt a bit insecure in my cooking abilities and…
It’s no secret, I love to read and study. It’s a discipline that my parents instilled in me many years ago. My books of choice were Peanuts comics back then.…
I remember one of my favorite things to say to my three older kids when they were growing up was, "Be nice." Sometimes it felt nearly impossible to get through…
