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In the midst of the Advent season, many church leaders are busy preparing for some extra special—Extra and Special worship services. These services generally draw people to church who have not been before or who have not been in a long time…
Dec/09/2019
Back in 2015, the Indiana State legislature passed something called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Christian businesses, it was now argued, could legally refuse goods and services to customers if their religious conscience was offen…
Dec/04/2019
A week ago, I woke up in my sleeping bag on the ground in Paria Canyon, snug between nine other people I had just met and looking up at the rising sun glowing red on the canyon walls. I was out on a 6-day hike with an organization called Re…
Dec/02/2019
In the first article for this series I highlighted the universality of grace. Keeping in mind that for Wesley grace is both the unmerited favor of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, we can now look at a second aspect of grace, namely, th…
Nov/27/2019
What can we do when we’ve lost the heart to preach?
Many of us are familiar with this experience. But many of us bury our lack of enthusiasm and feelings of exhaustion and hopelessness and ignore them out of shame and guilt. I want to br…
Nov/20/2019
Make time to study. For the seminarian, the need is obvious. Whether to read required texts, research a term paper, or prepare for a final exam, there is certain expectation that a fair amount of one’s time will be devoted to study. The wor…
Nov/18/2019
When the Argentinian mission leader René Padilla addressed the important Lausanne Assembly in 1974, he said there is “no use in taking for granted that we all agree on the Gospel that has been entrusted to us.” He believed the gospel had be…
Nov/13/2019
Bill Clinton once said that being president was a lot like running a cemetery. “You have a lot of people under you, but nobody is listening.” With the ubiquity of social media, we might think this ours is a culture of listening. But that is…
Nov/11/2019
Biblical exposition is becoming a lost craft. These days what I mostly hear from the pulpit is either meandering personal reflection or speculative historicizing in the style of academic exegesis (“you see, back then people thought …”). Exp…
Nov/06/2019
This year Randy Maddox retires from teaching Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School, where he has been on the faculty since 2005. In March, Maddox received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wesleyan Theological So…
Nov/04/2019
“Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the…
Oct/30/2019
This year in Consider Wesley we want to look at four aspects of grace in Wesley’s theology. But before we begin with the first of these aspects, we should first see how John Wesley understood grace itself.
Commenting on 2 Cor 1:12 in his…
Oct/23/2019
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