{"product_id":"true-companion","title":"True Companion: Thoughts on Being a Pastor's Wife","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBeing a pastor's wife isn't the least bit about wearing fancy hats and attending church potlucks. It means helping a man who gets more complaints than any other and cleans up more messes than any other.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #6fa8dc;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/F-133.pdf?v=1610383843\" style=\"color: #6fa8dc; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #6fa8dc;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eor\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/canonpress.com\/app\"\u003eListen on Canon+\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a Pastor's wife means a lot of suffering and heartbreak, in addition to all the frustrations of normal life. You can see Nancy Wilson's thirty years of experience most clearly in how she reacts to the difficult stuff—the stuff that can make you (especially if you're married to a pastor) feel inadequate and under-qualified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrue Companion\u003c\/em\u003e offers friendly, practical, and above all Christ-centered wisdom on how to help your husband in his vocation, how to deal with the \"congregation at home\" (kids), how much (or how little) a pastor's wife needs to be involved in the church, what sins tend to spring up in a pastor's home, how to deal with adversity from enemies (or from friends), and a host of other issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book I wish I had when I first married a pastor around the same time as Nancy did. And it is a book that I will be handing out to many future pastor's wives that pass through this seminary town. I pray and joyfully expect this book to bear much fruit in many marriages, homes, and churches for the glory of the gospel and advance of His kingdom.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Carolyn Mahaney, pastor's wife, mother, speaker, co-author of \u003cem\u003eFeminine Appeal\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor-in-chief of girltalk, a blog focusing on biblical womanhood\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Nancy Wilson begins with the kitchen table, remembering how each scratch and stain in the wood chronicles \\\"hours of stories and jokes, questions and concerns (through courtships and pregnancies), prayers and discussions.\\\" She continues, each essay full of stories and encouragement—the beauty of imperfection, the comfort of Velveeta, the strengths of mothers- and daughters-in-law, the honesty that is submission, the laughter of reading aloud. As ever, while Nancy draws out our sins and weaknesses and sore spots, she comforts us with the favor of God and rouses us to a joyous faith.\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Nancy Wilson begins with the kitchen table, remembering how each scratch and stain in the wood chronicles \\\"hours of stories and jokes, questions and concerns (through courtships and pregnancies), prayers and discussions.\\\" She continues, each essay full of stories and encouragement—the beauty of imperfection, the comfort of Velveeta, the strengths of mothers- and daughters-in-law, the honesty that is submission, the laughter of reading aloud. As ever, while Nancy draws out our sins and weaknesses and sore spots, she comforts us with the favor of God and rouses us to a joyous faith.\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNancy Wilson \u003c\/strong\u003ehas been a pastor's wife and homemaker in Moscow, Idaho for more than thirty years. She is the author of a number of books including \u003cem\u003eThe Fruit of Her Hands, Building Her House, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Praise Her in the Gates\u003c\/em\u003e, and a regular contributor to feminagirls.com. She and her husband Douglas have three children and seventeen grandchildren, which makes for some crazy Sabbath dinners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/F-133.pdf?2774\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eAUTHOR: Nancy Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 166 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5x8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-10: 1591281407\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781591281405\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUB. 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