Missy Martens
Missy lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with her husband, Jon, where they own and run Copper State Brewing Company. She homeschools their four active children, oftentimes at the brewery, and they somehow keep learning in spite of her. Missy loves witty banter, adventures of all sorts, and coffee . . . lots of coffee. And Jesus . . . lots of Jesus.
Without excuse
Have you ever had a “burning bush” moment? Maybe you’re familiar with the Bible’s story of Moses and the burning bush, but if you’re…
God’s got this
Let me set the scene for you. The sky was just beginning to darken, and I was finally leaving our business for the day….
Jesus is worth it!
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God” (Acts 16:25). That’s nice, isn’t it? A neat little story about a…
Stock your arsenal
I’m not sure about you, but I don’t have too many enemies. I had that one terrible landlord once, a couple disgruntled employees, and…
Stand
Around 11 p.m. on Christmas Day in 1776, George Washington and his troops famously crossed the Delaware River (looking as gallant as all the…
All the marshmallows
Have you heard of the famous marshmallow experiment? In the 1960s, a Stanford professor tested hundreds of children ages 4-5 by sitting them down…
Refreshments
There’s a phrase in the English language that’s better than most things one can hear in life. I’m speaking, of course, of the statement:…
A proper lament
My teenage son recently joined the ranks of those who can be given the moniker “Brace Face”—the world of orthodontia. This is a painful…
Spring in our steps with God
The groundhog never saw this one coming. Longest. Winter. Ever. I live in Wisconsin; we Midwesterners are used to being stuck inside over the…
Three quarantine insights
We’ve been “stuck at home/safer at home” for over a month now, and it feels a lot longer than that. And here are a…
Spread peace
I’m out of toilet paper. This is ridiculous. I don’t even understand why people are hoarding toilet paper, but now I’m regretting that time…
Enough
“I didn’t get enough sleep last night.” “There’s not enough coffee to get me through this day.” “I didn’t study enough for that test.”…