by Elaine Olsen | Jul 24, 2024 | calling, grace, pilgrimage
Sometimes you need an extra week. Sometimes two weeks is not enough for you to take hold of a new thing or for a new thing to take hold of you. Sometimes… New things need extra doses of grace and understanding … and time. Let me explain. As my children were growing...
by Elaine Olsen | Jul 5, 2024 | Asbury, calling, dad, holiness, Jadon's fight, methodism
Holiness. I’ve been chewing on this one today … gnawing away and swallowing bites of something I don’t fully understand but something, nonetheless, I deeply desire – to be like Jesus. Getting there isn’t easy. The way of holiness often includes our weaknesses – the...
by Elaine Olsen | May 26, 2021 | calling, Jadon's fight, kingdom
Jadon called me yesterday afternoon to share some good news. He’s been gone for two weeks now, off to a summer’s worth of adventure at a family campground serving as the Activities Director. This is new territory for us; Jadon’s never been away from home for very...
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 | Aug 4, 2015 | calling, faith, fellowship with God, God's Word, knowing God, pilgrimage
“As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.” –Luke 10:38 I listened to my daughter read this familiar story to me a few days ago. She was draped across my bed, dressed and ready for the...
