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John Wesley was consistent in how he understood salvation. In The Scripture Way of Salvation, he asks, “What is salvation. He answers, “The salvation which is spoken of is not what is frequently understood by that word, the going to heaven,…
Dec/05/2018
We live in a curriculum driven world. Just as we can download as many individual apps to our phones and tablets that gigs of memory will allow, we can sign up for as many different programs and studies in our seminaries and church congregat…
Dec/03/2018
I was asked to write about the state of the science and faith conversation within the evangelical community – broadly defined. I write not as an outsider who sits some safe distance away and tries to observe and understand a foreign tribe, …
Nov/28/2018
The United Methodist Church (UMC) stands on the brink of formal division. Different groups within the church are at loggerheads over how we can best live together – if indeed we can live together – in light of our disagreements over what th…
Nov/21/2018
I’ve been in evangelical churches and circles for over forty years. I’ve taught theology for over twenty years in evangelical institutions. My experience and those of the majority of my students is that the gospel message preached in many e…
Nov/19/2018
If pastoral scandals publicized in popular media do not convince us, if research informing us that young people avoid church because they think Christian leaders are not behaving like Christ does not convince us, at least we can appreciate …
Nov/14/2018
The confusion among Christians regarding core doctrines of the faith, recently highlighted in a survey published in Christianity Today, is not simply the result of a lack of teaching. The problem, rather, is that most Christians do not unde…
Nov/12/2018
It is fair to say that more commentaries are published on the letters of Paul from Romans through Ephesians than most other biblical books. This is a blessing but also presents a challenge as students and pastors strive to discern what are …
Nov/07/2018
A few weeks ago I got to speak at a prayer retreat in West Virginia. A Church of God (Anderson, IN) women’s organization runs this annual retreat, and as I walked into the cafeteria for dinner on Friday night, I realized just how out of pla…
Nov/05/2018
It’s not a task many of us relish, but gathering the required documentation to secure a valid, government-approved photo identity card or driver’s license is an inevitable chore of contemporary life. As a new transplant to the Midwest, I wa…
Oct/29/2018
One of the most common reasons that people refuse to be a part of Christianity, or decide to leave it, is the reality of tragedy. Specifically, what dispirits them is the thought that whatever happens must be “God’s will.” “If God wanted th…
Oct/22/2018
In his Covenant Prayer, John Wesley writes, “Let me be employed by thee or laid aside by thee.” What does it mean to be “laid aside” by God? I have an elderly friend who has become too frail to attend her church, and she laments her inabili…
Oct/15/2018
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