Mar 24, 2011 | Challenges in Calling, Preaching
I remember the first time I heard a woman preach. I was a freshman at Georgetown College. To be quite honest, I didn’t really like her. Based on what I’d been taught growing up and the male models I had seen as preachers, I felt that she was trying to be something...
Mar 17, 2011 | Advent/Lent, Being the Church, Motherhood and Ministry
Peter and two other disciples traveled with Jesus to the top of a mountain. There on the mountain they experienced an event known to us as the Transfiguration. Jesus was transformed before their eyes, his face shone brightly, and his clothes were sparkling white....
Mar 14, 2011 | Advent/Lent, Being the Church
Near sunset two friends set up easels on the beach. They prepared paints and brushes and waited for the light and color show of the sun setting over the water. The first friend began to paint hurriedly. Grabbing the colors as they appeared and working to get them just...
Mar 10, 2011 | Being a Minister, Encouraging Words
I’ve had the remarkable privilege to serve as one of two senior pastors. Mark Grace, my husband, is my co-pastor at Bill Harrod Memorial Baptist Church—Iglesia Bill Harrod—for almost five years now. Our church is in Dallas, Texas, and we work as bivocational ministers...
