by Elaine Olsen | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Focused on You, may my thoughts ever be Entangled with yours, clear my eyes, help me see … Glimpses of grace, fragments of home Reminders to me that I’m not alone, In fighting this fight, in conquering sin So present, so real, so embedded within … This world where I...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 1, 2016 | conviction, discipleship, fellowship with God, God's voice, God's Word, kingdom, living God's truth, ministry life, obedience, truth, words
My students and I have just finished reading Song of the Brook by Matlida Nordtvedt. As literary prose goes, it doesn’t measure up to the classics, but it does serve a purpose in our classroom. It’s one book in a continuing series of books presented annually to...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 2, 2016 | calling, faith, Lessons from the Lunchroom, obedience, out of the mouths of babes
“What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe – as the Lord has designed to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only...
by Elaine Olsen | Jul 23, 2016 | calling, knowing God, living God's truth, ministry life
“Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.” –Psalm 84:10 There was a defining moment in my ministry life several years ago. It happened unexpectedly but not...
by Elaine Olsen | Jul 5, 2016 | book review, contests, family fun, marriage, Uncategorized
*This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Cindy G. who will receive a copy of the book via Amazon. I love a good book, especially during these summer months when I have both the time and the energy to absorb a new story. And while I always have a compelling, fiction...
