Ha, it seems that I got to vent a little in this letter to the pastors from June 2021. I’m pretty sure that this was the year when a local pastor taught a Father’s Day sermon saying that women weren’t expected to pray directly to God, but their husbands were. Yes, that’s paraphrased but not by much. In fact, the pastor’s sentiment on the subject made me want to barf.

I think you’ll hear it in my hard words (that the Lord let me use!). At times God has me put my own heart out there in the written draft version and then He goes back through it with me to filter the words … sometimes softer and sometimes harder. I think He and I were on the same page from the start with this letter! We watched that nasty sermon online together so He felt my whole heart real time!

One note that I would like to remind here is that there are two types of spiritual gifts: 1) service gifts, and 2) miraculous gifts. The miraculous gifts of the Spirit require the “now” presence of the Spirit.