Tuesday/December/2013 10:46 Filed in:
Site Update
As a new year begins, I find I am having to make changes to this web site. The site has grown, and I need to rearrange some files and switch to a new blogging system.
Read More...Tags: Apple, IWeb, RapidWeaver, Webination Station
Tuesday/December/2013 09:27 Filed in:
John Wesley
How John Wesley Spent the New Year in 1785.
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Monday/December/2013 19:14 Filed in:
John Wesley
The Prayer from John Wesley's 1780 Covenant Service; the text and some links.
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Saturday/December/2013 13:36 Filed in:
Internet Links | MinistryFriday/December/2013 14:52 Filed in:
John Wesley
John Wesley said: “"Where Christian perfection is not strongly and explicitly preached, there is seldom any remarkable blessing from God….”
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Thursday/December/2013 10:32 Filed in:
Internet Links | The Church Year
Some quotes from a post by Adam Erickson at the God’s Politics blog.
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Thursday/December/2013 07:52 Filed in:
QuotationsTuesday/December/2013 07:24 Filed in:
Theology | The Church Year
A brief quote from a sermon preached by N. T. Wright on Christmas Day, 2007.
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Saturday/December/2013 17:18 Filed in:
Internet Links
A collections of links from around the Internet: Duck Dynasty, controversy and Christmas.
Read More...Tags: Jerry Walls, Derek Ouellette, Misty Irons, Adam Lorenz, Krista Tippett, Allan R. Bevere, Brandon Ambrosino, Phil Robertson, Brandan Robertson, Duck Dynasty
Monday/December/2013 07:10 Filed in:
Prayer
The following reflections are aimed at developing a basic definition of prayer. In order to discuss prayer, we need to know what we are talking about.
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Saturday/December/2013 06:03 Filed in:
Wesleyan Theology | Methodism
“The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.”
Read More...Tags: Nelson Mandela, Church of the Nazarene, methodism
Friday/December/2013 14:12 Filed in:
Sexuality Issues | Guest Blogs
Guest blog by Misty Irons. “To be clear, this is not a case of ex-gay ministries producing both the success stories and the not-so-successful stories…”
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Friday/December/2013 08:53 Filed in:
Church History
Happy St. Nicholas Day! Here are some links to Information about the real St. Nicholas.
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Thursday/December/2013 10:50 Filed in:
Internet Links
On labels and how people (Christians particularly) label each other: is it a bad thing or a good thing — or both?
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Wednesday/December/2013 10:56 Filed in:
Internet Links | Bible
“I don’t read the Bible like a flat line.”
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Monday/December/2013 14:16 Filed in:
Bible
In the passage before us, the apostle Paul talks about his own ministry.
Read More...Tags: Colossians, Suffering, Body of Christ, Paul, Ministry, servanthood, οἰκονομία, διάκονος, God’s Word
Monday/December/2013 07:29 Filed in:
Theology | Bible
Guest blog by Ken Schenck, Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University and Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry. “What would a hermeneutic look like today that tried to recapture the "inerrancy" of the pre-modern era?”
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Saturday/November/2013 10:05 Filed in:
John Wesley
A brief quotation from John Wesley: why he did not think the Methodist revival would continue.
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Friday/November/2013 15:44 Filed in:
Bible
Thanks to the
Reformedish Derek Rishmawy for this quote from N. T. Wright’s new (and huge) book on the teachings of the apostle Paul,
Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Read More...Tags: N. T. Wright, Paul, Authorship issues, New Testament
Friday/November/2013 14:24 Filed in:
Theology
Here is another item from Asbury Theological Seminary’s
Seven Minute Seminary series.
Read More...Tags: Old Testament, John Oswalt, God, Yahweh, Old Testament