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In Matthew’s Gospel, the evangelist proclaims that “…on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it” (16:18). As the church of Jesus Christ and specifically as United Methodists, are we overcoming, or are w…
Mar/01/2004
John Wesley preached approximately 40,000 sermons and traveled 250,000 miles during his ministry. As an itinerant evangelist and Bible teacher, Wesley embodied his own dictum: “You have nothing to do but save souls.” Wesley, however, was al…
Mar/01/2004
“Conversion” is a tricky word. Everyone seems to know what it means, but the meanings are widely divergent. They are often quite different from how John Wesley understood the term. Wesley himself used the word infrequently, because he belie…
Mar/01/2004
Anyone who doubts the extent to which the Left Behind phenomenon now dominates Christian publishing is encouraged to visit any Barnes & Noble or Borders bookstore, where T. LaHaye and J. Jenkins’s dark apocalyptic novels monopolize the …
Feb/01/2004
We cannot have healthy churches unless our preachers faithfully proclaim biblical truth, and there is strong biblical reason for thinking that many evangelical preachers are idolatrous heretics. If you think this statement is a bit strong, …
Feb/01/2004
Only yesterday I was told of a Christian woman who escaped a viciously cruel marriage and went to consult her pastor. The man of God, wishing to restore domestic peace and harmony, sent the fearful congregant back to her home along with his…
Feb/01/2004
For Wesley, prevenient grace is a manifestation of God’s universal love for humanity. God reaches out to everyone, restoring a measure of the freedom which sin has taken away, enabling persons to turn back to God. The uneasy conscience is i…
Feb/01/2004
John Goldingay, a charismatic evangelical, is currently the David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. Prior to Fuller, Goldingay was principal and professor of OT at St John’s Theological College, Nottin…
Nov/01/2003
Churches are often distinguished from each other in terms of their theological position or worship tradition. A further, significant distinguishing characteristic of a church, however, is the nature of its leadership. At a surface level, we…
Nov/01/2003
“For the past several months I have served as minister to children,” wrote associate pastor Dante Ottolini in the newsletter that arrived in my mail yesterday. “I never imagined I would be serving in this capacity! In seminary I had one cla…
Nov/01/2003
Wesley’s doctrine of prevenient grace was his solution to a problem inherent in two central teachings of Protestantism. The first was original sin, which in Wesley’s day was under attack by influential advocates of human free will such as J…
Nov/01/2003
There may be no greater challenge in pastoral ministry than loving others consistently while teaching others how to love as well. More than ever, people are in need of genuine loving connections; yet from one complex relational situation to…
Apr/01/2003
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