http://www.craigladams.com/index.htmlA blog about Wesleyan TheologyenCraig L. Adams2013-05-16T09:33:17-04:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:50:39 -0400Craig L. AdamsInternet LinksThe United Methodist ChurchWesleyan Theology2013-05-16T09:33:17-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/recent-posts-on-the-wesleyan-quadrilateral.html#unique-entry-id-382http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/recent-posts-on-the-wesleyan-quadrilateral.html#unique-entry-id-382Since I just linked to some posts from a United Methodist blogger already this morning, I also want to draw attention to the recent controversy in the Methoblogosphere over the Wesleyan Quadrilateral.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet LinksSexuality Issues2013-05-16T08:08:49-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/d-hixon-posts-on-sexuality-issues.html#unique-entry-id-381http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/d-hixon-posts-on-sexuality-issues.html#unique-entry-id-381United Methodist blogger Daniel McLain Hixon has recently posted on sexuality issues and the United Methodist Church.]]>Craig L. AdamsSite Update2013-05-10T13:32:45-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/this-blogs-summer-slump.html#unique-entry-id-380http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/this-blogs-summer-slump.html#unique-entry-id-380It is always hard for me to keep this blog going in the summer time. That is not a bad thing, really.]]>Craig L. AdamsPreaching2013-05-06T09:01:30-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-thoughts-on-preaching.html#unique-entry-id-379http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-thoughts-on-preaching.html#unique-entry-id-379I think most preaching is over-thought. The time and thought put into it is killing it. ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-05-02T14:40:11-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hopeful-inclusivism-quotes.html#unique-entry-id-378http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hopeful-inclusivism-quotes.html#unique-entry-id-378Various quotes from theologians — new and old — supporting the view I call Hopeful Inclusivism.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyQuotations2013-05-02T14:05:56-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-charitys-almighty-call.html#unique-entry-id-377http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-charitys-almighty-call.html#unique-entry-id-377A brief quote from John Wesley. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-05-01T16:55:26-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/meister-eckhart-being-not-doing.html#unique-entry-id-376http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/meister-eckhart-being-not-doing.html#unique-entry-id-376“Do not think to found holiness upon doing; holiness must be founded upon being.”]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet LinksTheology2013-04-30T18:47:52-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bauckham-on-christian-universalism.html#unique-entry-id-375http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bauckham-on-christian-universalism.html#unique-entry-id-375Some quotes from an article by Richard Bauckham on the history of Christian Universalism — and a link to the article itself. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayerQuotations2013-04-30T15:56:25-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-prayer-from-the-heart.html#unique-entry-id-374http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-prayer-from-the-heart.html#unique-entry-id-374Another brief quote on prayer from William Law (1686-1761).]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-04-29T15:50:43-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/grace-and-the-unevangelized.html#unique-entry-id-373http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/grace-and-the-unevangelized.html#unique-entry-id-373While Wesleyan theology does not teach or imply Universal Salvation it does teach Universal Grace. The scope of grace is seen as being wider than it might be from some other points of view.]]>Craig L. AdamsBibleColossians2013-04-26T11:49:36-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-24.html#unique-entry-id-372http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-24.html#unique-entry-id-372"I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church." ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalmsBible2013-04-25T08:36:51-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-forgiving-god.html#unique-entry-id-371http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-forgiving-god.html#unique-entry-id-371Reflections and a Prayer on Psalms 25:11, 12.]]>Craig L. AdamsGuest BlogsTheology2013-04-24T08:43:31-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ouellette-how-the-gospel-works.html#unique-entry-id-370http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ouellette-how-the-gospel-works.html#unique-entry-id-370Guest blog by Derek Ouellette. “The gospel, in its essence, then, is a proclamation of King Jesus.”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-04-23T11:50:31-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/gorman-resistence-and-worship-in%20revelation.html#unique-entry-id-369http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/gorman-resistence-and-worship-in%20revelation.html#unique-entry-id-369A brief quote from Michael J. Gorman on the meaning of the book of Revelation.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-04-22T10:51:11-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/eradication-of-the-sin-nature-huh.html#unique-entry-id-368http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/eradication-of-the-sin-nature-huh.html#unique-entry-id-368Why did the Holiness writers in the Wesleyan tradition speak of the “eradication of the sin nature”? What on earth did they mean by that?]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2013-04-20T12:59:03-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-4-20-13.html#unique-entry-id-367http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-4-20-13.html#unique-entry-id-367Some links from around the Internet: Scripture, Nicea, being human, Thomas Aquinas, determinism, explaining sin to adolescents, Romans 13, and why some churches don’t grow.]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2013-04-19T12:50:45-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/my-preaching-schedule-4-19-13.html#unique-entry-id-366http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/my-preaching-schedule-4-19-13.html#unique-entry-id-366Someone asked by email where I might be preaching in the area and I thought it might be nice to keep people updated on this.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyWesleyan TheologyQuotations2013-04-18T12:07:29-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-the-hopeful-inclusivist.html#unique-entry-id-365http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-the-hopeful-inclusivist.html#unique-entry-id-365”…I have no authority from the Word of God ‘to judge those that are without.’ Nor do I conceive that any man living has a right to sentence all the heathen and Mahometan world to damnation.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-04-18T12:14:36-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-helpful-wesleyan-perspectives-walls-blanchette.html#unique-entry-id-364http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-helpful-wesleyan-perspectives-walls-blanchette.html#unique-entry-id-364Reflections on some quotations from an essay by Jerry Walls and Kyle Blanchette. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalmsBible2013-04-18T09:50:11-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-paths-of-the-lord.html#unique-entry-id-363http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-paths-of-the-lord.html#unique-entry-id-363Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 25:8-10]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2013-04-17T11:10:22-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chrysostom-prayer-before-reading-scripture.html#unique-entry-id-362http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chrysostom-prayer-before-reading-scripture.html#unique-entry-id-362The following prayer is attributed to John Chrysostom (d. 407AD) ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-04-17T14:44:35-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-john-10-22-30.html#unique-entry-id-361http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-john-10-22-30.html#unique-entry-id-361This is a continuation of Jesus’ claim to be the Good Shepherd. This incident comments on the material that appears in the first part of this chapter.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-04-16T09:17:20-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-romans-2-29.html#unique-entry-id-359http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-romans-2-29.html#unique-entry-id-359"But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God."]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-04-11T08:02:15-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/witherington-why-a-wesleyan-approach-to-theology.html#unique-entry-id-358http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/witherington-why-a-wesleyan-approach-to-theology.html#unique-entry-id-358Yes, this is another video in the excellent 7 Minute Seminary series from Asbury Theological Seminary. ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-04-09T11:26:15-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-john-17-17-23.html#unique-entry-id-357http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-john-17-17-23.html#unique-entry-id-357"'Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth. As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me. And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as Thou didst love Me.'"]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-04-08T16:11:25-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hooft-biblicism.html#unique-entry-id-356http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hooft-biblicism.html#unique-entry-id-356An interesting quote about the Bible from W. A. Visser’t Hooft in The Kingship of Christ: An Interpretation of Recent European Theology (1948), pp. 142-43 ]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2013-04-08T11:32:20-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-4-8-13.html#unique-entry-id-355http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-4-8-13.html#unique-entry-id-355A few links from around the Internet: the Politics of Exile, being “Biblical,” Calvinism & Psychotherapy, Prayer & the unchurched.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyBooks2013-04-06T06:15:59-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-strange-case-of-timothy-tennent.html#unique-entry-id-354http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-strange-case-of-timothy-tennent.html#unique-entry-id-354Timothy C. Tennent recently wrote a book review of Rob Bell’s newest book. And, Timothy C. Tennent should be ashamed of himself. I’m not writing to defend Bell. I’m writing to attack Tennent. ]]>Craig L. AdamsGuest Blogs2013-04-05T13:02:39-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rick-blunt-when-a-pastors-atheist-father-dies-during-holy-week.html#unique-entry-id-353http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rick-blunt-when-a-pastors-atheist-father-dies-during-holy-week.html#unique-entry-id-353Guest blog by Richard (Rick) Blunt, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Lowell, Michigan. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2013-04-04T16:09:32-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-can-you-pray-about-it.html#unique-entry-id-350http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-can-you-pray-about-it.html#unique-entry-id-350"Consider yourself as always wrong, as having gone aside, and lost your right path, when….”]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyGuest Blogs2013-04-03T11:43:01-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rankin-ignoring-the-resurrection-deniers.html#unique-entry-id-349http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rankin-ignoring-the-resurrection-deniers.html#unique-entry-id-349Guest blog by Stephen W. Rankin. “Thus, the time has come for us to start ignoring those who claim that thinking, enlightened people cannot possibly believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus.”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2013-04-03T08:30:09-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-why-arent-all-saved.html#unique-entry-id-348http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-why-arent-all-saved.html#unique-entry-id-348"If you ask, 'Why then are not all men saved?' the whole law and the testimony answer….”]]>Craig L. AdamsBooksGuest Blogs2013-04-03T11:09:07-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/jerry-walls-reviews-love-wins-by-rob-bell.html#unique-entry-id-347http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/jerry-walls-reviews-love-wins-by-rob-bell.html#unique-entry-id-347Guest blog by Dr. Jerry L. Walls, Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. Yeah, it’s a book review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. This was an item I had posted on my old (Apple hosted) web site. But, I thought it would be good to have it on the new site, as well.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-04-02T12:45:51-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-john-8-34-36.html#unique-entry-id-346http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-john-8-34-36.html#unique-entry-id-346"Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. And the slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed'." (John 8:34-36, NASB.)]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyThe Church Year2013-04-02T10:27:35-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/witherington-easter-and-the-resurrection.html#unique-entry-id-345http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/witherington-easter-and-the-resurrection.html#unique-entry-id-345Here is another video in the excellent Seven Minute Seminary series from the Asbury Theological Seminary Seedbed. ]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyGuest Blogs2013-03-31T20:26:54-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/garcia-jesus-the-jester.html#unique-entry-id-344http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/garcia-jesus-the-jester.html#unique-entry-id-344Guest blog by Lawrence E. Garcia, Senior Teaching Pastor of Academia Church in Goodyear, Arizona. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2013-03-30T10:27:40-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/resurrection-happens.html#unique-entry-id-343http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/resurrection-happens.html#unique-entry-id-343Right around the time I formally retired from the United Methodist ministry, I surprised myself. I recognized that I was still a Christian. In a way, nothing had changed. Yet, somehow it had. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonalTheologyThe Church Year2013-03-29T11:30:43-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/standing-before-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-342http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/standing-before-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-342Many years ago I served a church in the northern part of Michigan. At the time I was there, the nearest town had a well-attended Ministerial Association. The Ministerial Association had one program which was very successful and that was the Annual Community Good Friday Service.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-03-29T09:18:53-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/newbigin-all-proper-order-is-overturned.html#unique-entry-id-341http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/newbigin-all-proper-order-is-overturned.html#unique-entry-id-341“But if the master becomes a menial slave to the disciple, then all proper order is overturned….”]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-03-28T11:54:08-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-22-37.html#unique-entry-id-340http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-22-37.html#unique-entry-id-340"And He said to him, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’" — Matthew 22:37, NASB.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2013-03-25T14:12:43-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-love-the-summa-theologica-of-thomas-aquinas.html#unique-entry-id-339http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-love-the-summa-theologica-of-thomas-aquinas.html#unique-entry-id-339Many years ago (and for reasons I don't really fathom myself) I became dissatisfied with the fact that I had little or no comprehension of the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Here's what I did. I happened upon a very good path — which I highly recommend to anyone else out there who wants a basic understanding of Thomas' thought.]]>Craig L. AdamsSite Update2013-03-22T08:17:56-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-never-post-book-reviews.html#unique-entry-id-338http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-never-post-book-reviews.html#unique-entry-id-338I never write book reviews, and I never intend to. I know that book reviews are a staple of the blogosphere and I could get free books sometimes if I were willing to review them. I hate writing book reviews. I just won't do it. There are lots of reasons.]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality IssuesInternet Links2013-03-21T11:06:06-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-this-weeks-rob-bell-flap.html#unique-entry-id-337http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-this-weeks-rob-bell-flap.html#unique-entry-id-337The Internet has been a-buzz this week about Rob Bell and gay marriage and "skirting the edge of heresy," and so forth — but I've been too dizzy to type anything at the computer. If I'd been well, I would've said something, I'm sure. Not that it would have been worth much. But, I'm now getting around to typing something on my iPad.  
]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2013-03-21T13:25:05-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/mcknight-the-acheivement-of-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-336http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/mcknight-the-acheivement-of-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-336Here is a nice quote from Scot McKnight’s book A Community Called Atonement.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-03-18T09:57:47-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-6-10.html#unique-entry-id-335http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-6-10.html#unique-entry-id-335"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven." — Matthew 6:10. ]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2013-03-16T07:58:47-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-salvation-to-every-creature.html#unique-entry-id-334http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-salvation-to-every-creature.html#unique-entry-id-334A brief quote from John Wesley. ]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2013-03-15T10:20:20-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-3-12-13.html#unique-entry-id-333http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-3-12-13.html#unique-entry-id-333A few links from around the Internet: Google Reader, the Pope, prayer, and reading the Bible.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-03-14T15:47:55-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-amos-3-9-15.html#unique-entry-id-332http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-amos-3-9-15.html#unique-entry-id-332The prophet calls the surrounding nations to witness against YHWH's Chosen People. ]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2013-03-14T08:25:10-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rob-bell-on-doubting-god-on-easter.html#unique-entry-id-331http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rob-bell-on-doubting-god-on-easter.html#unique-entry-id-331In his new book, Rob Bell speaks of a time when he was troubled by doubts about God.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-03-13T10:05:55-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/leave-her-alone-john-12-7.html#unique-entry-id-330http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/leave-her-alone-john-12-7.html#unique-entry-id-330"Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial." ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-03-12T14:16:34-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-5-48.html#unique-entry-id-329http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-5-48.html#unique-entry-id-329"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." — Matthew 5:48, NASB.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyInternet Links2013-03-12T10:52:01-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/faith-life-and-theology.html#unique-entry-id-328http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/faith-life-and-theology.html#unique-entry-id-328Yesterday, my friend Mark Payne wrote a thought provoking blog post entitled: “I’m Not a Believer!”. And, it got me thinking….]]>Craig L. AdamsBiblical TheologyInternet Links2013-03-12T09:32:52-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/schenk-10-common-mistakes-about-the-NT.html#unique-entry-id-327http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/schenk-10-common-mistakes-about-the-NT.html#unique-entry-id-327From Ken Schenck, Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University where he is also Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry, here is a list of what he considers to be “10 fairly clear insights” about New Testament interpretation “that have not fully trickled down to the popular level:”]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2013-03-11T11:05:46-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/steve-holmes-on-phoebe-palmer.html#unique-entry-id-326http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/steve-holmes-on-phoebe-palmer.html#unique-entry-id-326“She formed the spirituality that formed me. She changed the world. Who am I to even think of defending her?”]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2013-03-11T08:48:56-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-3-11-2013.html#unique-entry-id-325http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-around-the-internet-3-11-2013.html#unique-entry-id-325A few links from around the Internet: Class meetings, Justin Lee, the Bible, and Rob Bell. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2013-03-08T15:50:41-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-prayer-that-renews.html#unique-entry-id-324http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-prayer-that-renews.html#unique-entry-id-324“No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart is in this method of prayer….”]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-03-07T14:28:14-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-ezekiel-36-25-26-29.html#unique-entry-id-323http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-ezekiel-36-25-26-29.html#unique-entry-id-323“Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh." Ezekiel 36:25,26, NASB. "Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you." Ezekiel 36:29, NASB. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBooks2013-03-05T17:05:33-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rob-bells-new-book.html#unique-entry-id-322http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rob-bells-new-book.html#unique-entry-id-322And, here he is… stirring the pot once again…]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-02-27T16:37:21-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-5-8.html#unique-entry-id-321http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-texts-matthew-5-8.html#unique-entry-id-321"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8, NASB.]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2013-02-27T15:35:36-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/adventures-in-dizziness.html#unique-entry-id-320http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/adventures-in-dizziness.html#unique-entry-id-320To tell you the truth, I generally don't know what I can do and what I can't do. Vertigo can hit unexpectedly and for no apparent reason. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2013-02-26T16:14:21-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-the-prayer-book-you-need.html#unique-entry-id-318http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/law-the-prayer-book-you-need.html#unique-entry-id-318“The way to be a man of prayer, and be governed by its spirit….]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-02-22T16:21:14-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-holiness-texts-of-john-wesley-intro.html#unique-entry-id-317http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-holiness-texts-of-john-wesley-intro.html#unique-entry-id-317John Wesley taught that people cannot have the kind of the faith that brings them into a new or deeper experience of God's grace unless they first had "a Divine evidence and conviction... that God hath promised it in the Holy Scripture."]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-02-21T13:05:56-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/matts-reply.html#unique-entry-id-316http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/matts-reply.html#unique-entry-id-316Today I just want to briefly note that Matt O’Reilly responded to my post from yesterday….]]>Craig L. AdamsChurch History2013-02-20T17:03:26-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/skull-pew-pic.html#unique-entry-id-315http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/skull-pew-pic.html#unique-entry-id-315I don’t know where Dave Wainscott found this, but…]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-02-19T18:48:40-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-wesleyan-voice-andcanitbe.html#unique-entry-id-314http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-wesleyan-voice-andcanitbe.html#unique-entry-id-314A brief response to some concerns and ideas raised by Kevin Watson & Matt O’Reilly. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-02-18T14:33:35-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/basil-spirit-bearing-souls.html#unique-entry-id-312http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/basil-spirit-bearing-souls.html#unique-entry-id-312A brief quotation from St. Basil the Great (329-379). ]]>Craig L. AdamsSite Update2013-02-16T13:21:34-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-continue-to-use-facebook.html#unique-entry-id-311http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-continue-to-use-facebook.html#unique-entry-id-311I've noticed a few friends have given up Facebook for Lent. And, it got me to thinking why I spend time with Facebook, and why it is still working for me.

]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-02-19T11:40:12-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-3-3-8.html#unique-entry-id-309http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-3-3-8.html#unique-entry-id-309The opening verses of chapter 3 identify the people against whom Amos is prophesying: "the whole family that [God] brought up out of the land of Egypt." Now, in verses 3-8, Amos talks about his own role as a prophet.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-02-13T19:35:37-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/heschel-blame-religion-for-its-own-defeats.html#unique-entry-id-308http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/heschel-blame-religion-for-its-own-defeats.html#unique-entry-id-308“Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became….”]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-02-14T08:19:43-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-luke-4-1-13.html#unique-entry-id-307http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-luke-4-1-13.html#unique-entry-id-307I really like the way Luke tells the story of Jesus’ temptation. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-02-08T16:12:00-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-3-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-306http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-3-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-306It is amazing how self-critical the Hebrew Scriptures are. They do not glorify the nation or it's heroes. The nation's critics were remembered — they were remembered as prophets who told them, in advance, of the danger that lay ahead for them.]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2013-02-06T16:58:46-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/coming-home.html#unique-entry-id-305http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/coming-home.html#unique-entry-id-305For a long time, I felt like I was kind of a nomad. I am still reminded of the fact every time someone asks me "Where are you from?" It’s not supposed to be a difficult question.
]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-02-06T12:27:57-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-and-the-bible.html#unique-entry-id-304http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-and-the-bible.html#unique-entry-id-304I have this crazy notion that even if people forgot about Wesley and Fletcher and Clarke and Finney and Mahan, etc. but would just come to the Bible with open hearts & minds, the holiness themes would re-assert themselves.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-02-05T13:55:27-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/expect-the-spirit-to-work-in-you.html#unique-entry-id-303http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/expect-the-spirit-to-work-in-you.html#unique-entry-id-303A brief quote from F. B. Meyer (1847-1929).]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyQuotations2013-02-04T09:46:22-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-five-points-of-arminius.html#unique-entry-id-302http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-five-points-of-arminius.html#unique-entry-id-302Here is a statement of the beliefs of Arminius in — as much as possible — the language that he actually used.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotationsTheology2013-02-04T08:05:55-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/yoder-no-one-ungifted.html#unique-entry-id-301http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/yoder-no-one-ungifted.html#unique-entry-id-301Thanks to Dave Wainscott for recently posting this excellent quote from John Howard Yoder….]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-01-31T14:50:43-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chesterton-aquinas-only-thyself.html#unique-entry-id-300http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chesterton-aquinas-only-thyself.html#unique-entry-id-300A quotation from Chesterton about Thomas Aquinas: “I Will Have Thyself.”]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2013-01-30T19:17:07-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/fitch-questioning-societys-ideology-of-sexuality.html#unique-entry-id-299http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/fitch-questioning-societys-ideology-of-sexuality.html#unique-entry-id-299Some thoughts and questions raised by a couple of thought provoking blog posts about sexuality issues from David E. Fitch.]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2013-01-30T18:42:18-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/personal-update-how-im-doing.html#unique-entry-id-298http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/personal-update-how-im-doing.html#unique-entry-id-298It's tiresome to hear someone talk about his/her ailments, I know. But, in this case, the ailment has effected my online behavior.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-01-22T14:13:00-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/brueggeman-god-in-relationship.html#unique-entry-id-297http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/brueggeman-god-in-relationship.html#unique-entry-id-297A quotation from the Preface to a book on the theology of the Old Testament. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2013-01-21T07:54:33-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/debotton-religion-and-pornography.html#unique-entry-id-296http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/debotton-religion-and-pornography.html#unique-entry-id-296Reflections on an article by philosopher Alain de Botton called "Why Most Men Aren’t Man Enough to Handle Web Porn.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonalTheology2013-01-19T08:12:28-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-i-mean-by-faith.html#unique-entry-id-295http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-i-mean-by-faith.html#unique-entry-id-295I've been thinking lately about what I mean when I talk about faith or the life of faith.]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2013-01-17T12:08:00-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/vertigo.html#unique-entry-id-294http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/vertigo.html#unique-entry-id-294I'm typing this out on the iPad, just in case, but I have been feeling a little better the last two days. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-01-10T11:16:30-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/it-matters-what-god-you-trust.html#unique-entry-id-293http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/it-matters-what-god-you-trust.html#unique-entry-id-293Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 115:8, 9: There is a profound thought here: we become like the God we trust. ]]>Craig L. AdamsGuest BlogsBibleTheology2013-01-08T14:43:57-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/tcmoore-the-father-heart-of-god.html#unique-entry-id-292http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/tcmoore-the-father-heart-of-god.html#unique-entry-id-292A Guest blog by T. C. Moore. “But … God … twelve years ago, broke into my life like a home invasion, rescued me, and revealed himself to me. God showed himself to be my true home, my true family. God offered me unconditional love and a new mission to demonstrate that love to the world.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2013-01-08T09:46:06-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/oswalt-on-being-holy.html#unique-entry-id-291http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/oswalt-on-being-holy.html#unique-entry-id-291Today I share with you an excellent video presentation by Dr. John Oswalt, distinguished visiting professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary, on “Being Holy.”]]>Craig L. AdamsGuest Blogs2013-01-07T15:43:40-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ouellette-should-knowledge-be-free.html#unique-entry-id-290http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ouellette-should-knowledge-be-free.html#unique-entry-id-290Guest blog by Derek Ouellette. Should all knowledge be free? Or, is there a deeper issue? ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2013-01-07T08:09:20-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/99ec0981d0ddd2971d5e9b703b9e59c3-289.html#unique-entry-id-289http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/99ec0981d0ddd2971d5e9b703b9e59c3-289.html#unique-entry-id-289There is a reason why this blog has been rather silent lately — and it’s not just because of the holidays.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-12-29T17:44:03-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-god-who-cant-be-manipulated.html#unique-entry-id-288http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-god-who-cant-be-manipulated.html#unique-entry-id-288Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 115:2-8.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet LinksTheology2012-12-19T13:20:26-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/quotes-on-gods-character.html#unique-entry-id-287http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/quotes-on-gods-character.html#unique-entry-id-287Some quotes found on the Internet: God’s mercy, wrath, and judgement.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-12-19T11:46:11-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/c166b3823f773d94973f6b27245dc3d7-285.html#unique-entry-id-285http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/c166b3823f773d94973f6b27245dc3d7-285.html#unique-entry-id-285A brief quote from John Wesley, from the sermon “The End of Christ’s Coming”]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-12-18T12:19:08-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/becoming-just-dying-to-sin.html#unique-entry-id-284http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/becoming-just-dying-to-sin.html#unique-entry-id-284Some random thoughts inspired by a quote from theologian F. LeRon Shults.]]>Craig L. AdamsHolidays2012-12-13T10:31:11-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/tis-the-season-for-grumpy-preachers.html#unique-entry-id-283http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/tis-the-season-for-grumpy-preachers.html#unique-entry-id-283Did you ever notice how many grumpy Advent & Christmas preachers there are?]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyGuest Blogs2012-12-12T11:35:15-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/jmsmith-explain-trinity-quick.html#unique-entry-id-282http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/jmsmith-explain-trinity-quick.html#unique-entry-id-282Guest blog by James-Michael Smith.]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-12-11T12:51:48-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-I-post-on-sexuality-issues.html#unique-entry-id-281http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-I-post-on-sexuality-issues.html#unique-entry-id-281When I check the statistics on this site, I notice that there is always a fair amount of interest in visiting the Sexuality page and in the various articles that are linked there.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-12-10T12:57:01-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/evangelical-wesleyan-egalitarian2.html#unique-entry-id-280http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/evangelical-wesleyan-egalitarian2.html#unique-entry-id-280I guess it is a paradigm shift for a lot of people but, the fact is that the Methodist acceptance of women in ministry was well ahead of the modern, secular feminist movement — and is, in that sense, unrelated to it!]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-12-05T18:03:19-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/more-notes-colossians-1-21-23.html#unique-entry-id-279http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/more-notes-colossians-1-21-23.html#unique-entry-id-279Nice little sermon outline from yesterday’s post, huh? Yes, but it’s missing something. At the time, I was very consciously leaving out point #5: The Means of Reconciliation.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-12-04T14:45:50-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-21-23.html#unique-entry-id-277http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-21-23.html#unique-entry-id-277The apostle Paul has been emphasizing the greatness of Christ. The verses just before this speak of Christ as the Head of the Church. Paul now personalizes the message: reminding his readers of the way Christ has changed their lives: reconciling them to God.]]>Craig L. AdamsHumor2012-12-03T15:06:49-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/is-there-a-santa-claus.html#unique-entry-id-276http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/is-there-a-santa-claus.html#unique-entry-id-276Some silliness about Santa Claus. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-12-03T10:38:17-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/justin-lee-torn-theology.html#unique-entry-id-275http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/justin-lee-torn-theology.html#unique-entry-id-275A few weeks ago, somebody found this blog by doing an Internet search for: justin lee torn theology.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-11-30T13:39:03-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cleese-on-creativity.html#unique-entry-id-274http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cleese-on-creativity.html#unique-entry-id-274A video of a talk by John Cleese on creativity — and some thoughts on it. ]]>Craig L. AdamsHumor2012-11-30T08:24:23-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/theological-christmas-cards.html#unique-entry-id-273http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/theological-christmas-cards.html#unique-entry-id-273Christmas greetings of your choice. (If you have choice….) ]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-11-29T13:42:21-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-the-witness-of-the-spirit.html#unique-entry-id-272http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-the-witness-of-the-spirit.html#unique-entry-id-272The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.' (Romans 8:16). But what is the witness of the Spirit?]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-11-29T11:07:47-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-assurance-and-faith.html#unique-entry-id-271http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-assurance-and-faith.html#unique-entry-id-271I am sure that neither the Calvinists nor the Anglican Arminians of Wesley’s day could foresee the deadly way Calvinism and Arminianism would become mingled together in the popular evangelicalism of our day. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-11-28T11:05:29-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-18-20.html#unique-entry-id-269http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-18-20.html#unique-entry-id-269By virtue of his resurrection, Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSite Update2012-11-24T11:24:06-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/site-update-11-12-2012.html#unique-entry-id-267http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/site-update-11-12-2012.html#unique-entry-id-267I just left a comment at Morgan Guyton’s blog and got to thinking about how it reflects what I’ve been doing lately at this site. ]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-11-24T09:49:31-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/coakley-on-women-bishops-vote.html#unique-entry-id-266http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/coakley-on-women-bishops-vote.html#unique-entry-id-266The most interesting report and analysis of the current crisis in the Anglican Church that I’ve seen is from theologian Sarah Coakley, the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-11-20T09:40:39-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-16-17.html#unique-entry-id-265http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-16-17.html#unique-entry-id-265Christ does not belong to us alone. Christ is the Savior of all. Christ is not only found within. Christ is found all around. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-11-19T08:53:38-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chesterton-something-more-real-than-realism.html#unique-entry-id-264http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chesterton-something-more-real-than-realism.html#unique-entry-id-264“It was the glory of the great Pagans, in the great days of Paganism, that natural things had a sort of projected halo of the supernatural.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodism2012-11-17T14:51:35-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/inclusiveness-in-a-culture-of-holiness.html#unique-entry-id-263http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/inclusiveness-in-a-culture-of-holiness.html#unique-entry-id-263Some thoughts on a post by Steven W. Manskar.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-11-16T09:24:07-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chambers-the-lofty-height.html#unique-entry-id-261http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chambers-the-lofty-height.html#unique-entry-id-261A good word for today from Oswald Chambers, taken from his classic devotional book My Utmost for His Highest.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyGuest Blogs2012-11-15T12:06:11-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/momany-intellect-liability-ministry.html#unique-entry-id-260http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/momany-intellect-liability-ministry.html#unique-entry-id-260Guest blog by Christopher P. Momany, chaplain and director of church relations at Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan. Chris issues a challenge to the academy and to the church.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-11-14T10:46:03-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-15.html#unique-entry-id-259http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-15.html#unique-entry-id-259In his rebuttal to the Colossian "worship of angels", the apostle Paul directs his readers’ attention to Jesus Christ. Christ is the focus of our faith. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-11-13T11:44:14-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/yes-justins-book-arrived.html#unique-entry-id-258http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/yes-justins-book-arrived.html#unique-entry-id-258Yes, Justin Lee’s new book Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate downloaded from Amazon onto my iPad this morning.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-11-12T18:07:10-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-2-6-16.html#unique-entry-id-257http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-2-6-16.html#unique-entry-id-257The real heart of Amos' prophecies was his message to the people of the northern kingdom of Israel (sometimes also called Ephraim, after its dominant tribe).]]>Craig L. AdamsThe United Methodist Church2012-11-10T13:12:07-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/no-dr-jackson-splitting-the-umc-is-a-bad-idea.html#unique-entry-id-256http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/no-dr-jackson-splitting-the-umc-is-a-bad-idea.html#unique-entry-id-256Hey, United Methodist progressives: I think you just got asked to leave the church. Are you actually taking this seriously?]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2012-11-09T09:38:28-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/my-journey-with-the-bible.html#unique-entry-id-255http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/my-journey-with-the-bible.html#unique-entry-id-255A few notes on my journey in understanding the Bible.]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-11-08T10:20:33-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/justin-talks-about%20his%20new%20book.html#unique-entry-id-254http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/justin-talks-about%20his%20new%20book.html#unique-entry-id-254Yes, I’m promoting this book even though I have not (yet) read it. ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-11-07T13:27:07-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/more-on-wesley-and-the-gospel.html#unique-entry-id-253http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/more-on-wesley-and-the-gospel.html#unique-entry-id-253Movements often become embarrassed with themselves as the generations come and go, and this seems to be part of what happened to Methodism.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-11-07T07:21:40-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/brueggemann-post-election-day-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-251http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/brueggemann-post-election-day-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-251A Post-Election Day Prayer from Walter Brueggemann. ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-11-06T14:11:37-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-still-find-wesleyan-theology-interesting.html#unique-entry-id-250http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-i-still-find-wesleyan-theology-interesting.html#unique-entry-id-250It may seem strange — since I am very far from being a legalistic person myself — that I find the teachings of the early Methodists and the preachers of the Holiness Movement so interesting.]]>Craig L. AdamsSite Update2012-11-06T13:18:10-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/site-update-11-6-12.html#unique-entry-id-249http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/site-update-11-6-12.html#unique-entry-id-249Some changes are coming to this site. But, it will all take a while. I’ll let you know when changes are made. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2012-10-30T14:55:31-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/personal-update-10-30-2012.html#unique-entry-id-248http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/personal-update-10-30-2012.html#unique-entry-id-248Well, first I had computer problems. Then I got sick. Thursday, I’m off to prison.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-10-30T11:44:57-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-13-14.html#unique-entry-id-247http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-13-14.html#unique-entry-id-247The apostle’s prayer is followed by a statement about the Gospel’s effect on his readers’ lives.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-10-22T13:53:54-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-schism.html#unique-entry-id-245http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-schism.html#unique-entry-id-245“[Schism] is evil in itself. To separate ourselves from a body of living Christians, with whom we were before united, is a grievous breach of the law of love….”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-10-18T16:01:22-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-the-economy.html#unique-entry-id-244http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-the-economy.html#unique-entry-id-244John Wesley believed that most of the economic problems of the day were caused by a growing disparity between the rich and the poor.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-10-18T14:31:23-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-2-1-5.html#unique-entry-id-243http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-2-1-5.html#unique-entry-id-243Amos continues his prophecies against the nations in this chapter. This is where the prophecy takes a dramatic turn.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-10-17T17:50:38-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/only-one-foundation.html#unique-entry-id-242http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/only-one-foundation.html#unique-entry-id-242“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3:11, NRSV).]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-10-17T17:03:05-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-history-of-rapture-theology-in-american-christianity.html#unique-entry-id-241http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-history-of-rapture-theology-in-american-christianity.html#unique-entry-id-241Rapture Theology is not harmless. This video gives us a historical overview of its rise in popular Christianity and it’s harmful effects…. ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-10-16T12:00:30-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/how-i-still-think-like-a-methodist.html#unique-entry-id-240http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/how-i-still-think-like-a-methodist.html#unique-entry-id-240I still believe in a here-and-now Gospel that changes people for the better and impacts the world for the better. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-10-16T10:29:31-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/newbigin-faith-allegiance.html#unique-entry-id-238http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/newbigin-faith-allegiance.html#unique-entry-id-238“In a world which knows that there is only one physics and one mathematics, religion cannot do less than claim for its affirmations a like universal validity.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-10-15T14:19:49-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-1-3-15.html#unique-entry-id-237http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-1-3-15.html#unique-entry-id-237Amos the prophet was certain that there was a God to whom the nations must give account. There was a moral judge of the world. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-10-15T12:41:45-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-call-to-holiness-bk.html#unique-entry-id-236http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-call-to-holiness-bk.html#unique-entry-id-236“By the grace of God, let us covenant together to be a holy people.”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-10-09T11:57:06-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/no-standing-still.html#unique-entry-id-235http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/no-standing-still.html#unique-entry-id-235A brief quote from St. Bonaventure (1221-1274). ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-10-09T09:33:05-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/f121e23c914f71f5383a1f2bb32da961-234.html#unique-entry-id-234http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/f121e23c914f71f5383a1f2bb32da961-234.html#unique-entry-id-234“The only way that can be changed is for God, from God’s side, to change the power equation and invite us into a world of mutuality and vulnerability.”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-10-08T10:02:53-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/light-through-darkness.html#unique-entry-id-233http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/light-through-darkness.html#unique-entry-id-233We must approach the Scriptures with humility and patience, with our own agenda out of the way, and allow the Spirit to stir the deeper meaning for us.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-10-06T10:42:07-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/christ-and-nonchristians.html#unique-entry-id-232http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/christ-and-nonchristians.html#unique-entry-id-232Question: What do we do with the fact that there have been billions of people who died before Christ came to be among us on this earth? Or what about those who never learned about the saving power of Christ? How is it fair that these never had a chance for salvation? What guidance do the Scriptures give us on this issue, and what has the historic Church said about it?]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-10-06T09:20:54-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/dan-o-via-on-arsenokoites.html#unique-entry-id-231http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/dan-o-via-on-arsenokoites.html#unique-entry-id-231There is very good reason to think that ἀρσενοκοίτης in 1 Corinthians 6 and 1 Timothy 1 is a reference to male same gender sex. ]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-10-01T11:50:43-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-purpose-of-christs-coming.html#unique-entry-id-230http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-purpose-of-christs-coming.html#unique-entry-id-230"O do not take any thing less than this for the religion of Jesus Christ!” ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-28T11:46:02-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-9-12-p3.html#unique-entry-id-229http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-9-12-p3.html#unique-entry-id-229And, now, having gotten preliminary issues out of the way, some comments on the text of the prayer itself…. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-27T11:46:39-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-9-12-p2.html#unique-entry-id-228http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-9-12-p2.html#unique-entry-id-228Prayer is at the foundation of all church renewal. We are regularly encouraged to pray. Before we need new ideas and quick-fix solutions, we need prayer.]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-09-25T11:26:49-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-sideb-objections.html#unique-entry-id-227http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-sideb-objections.html#unique-entry-id-227A reply to a brief comment left at the United Methodist Insight web site. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-24T08:21:30-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-9-12.html#unique-entry-id-226http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-9-12.html#unique-entry-id-226And, at this point, we come to one of the features of this letter that has always fascinated me.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-09-21T12:52:21-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/persistence-and-humility.html#unique-entry-id-225http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/persistence-and-humility.html#unique-entry-id-225Some quotes from one of my favorite theologians….]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-09-20T10:11:44-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/please-order-justins-book.html#unique-entry-id-223http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/please-order-justins-book.html#unique-entry-id-223Personally, I’ve said about all I’m going to say about the gay issue for a while. I will still respond to questions and comments, but I don’t have any new insights to post right now. I’m going to move on to other things. But, if you’d like to move forward on this, HERE IS A BOOK YOU SHOULD ORDER NOW.]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-09-19T12:17:48-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-would-it-take-to-convince-me-im-wrong-on-gay-lesbian-issues.html#unique-entry-id-222http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-would-it-take-to-convince-me-im-wrong-on-gay-lesbian-issues.html#unique-entry-id-222After laying out all my reasons for the SideB stance, I can’t help but ask: What’s Wrong With This Picture?]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-09-18T12:00:07-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-xtn-opposition-to-homosexuality-never-dies.html#unique-entry-id-221http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/why-xtn-opposition-to-homosexuality-never-dies.html#unique-entry-id-221Here’s why sometimes SideA efforts are less successful than their proponents expect them to be. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-17T13:57:04-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/NT-authors-intensions.html#unique-entry-id-220http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/NT-authors-intensions.html#unique-entry-id-220The New Testament writers would not have been able to be able to envision the New Testament as we currently have it, but they were convinced they were delivering authoritative teaching.
]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-17T10:16:16-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/colossian-heresy.html#unique-entry-id-219http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/colossian-heresy.html#unique-entry-id-219Some thoughts about the teachings Paul opposes in the letter to the Colossians. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-15T11:52:41-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-218http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-218There is a lion roaring, but only the prophet can hear.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-12T07:59:33-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/i-am-sayings.html#unique-entry-id-217http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/i-am-sayings.html#unique-entry-id-217In one of the churches I pastored, I led a series of brief Lenten studies on the "I am" sayings in the Gospel of John. In preparation for this, I did a search to find how many sayings like this there really were. I was a bit surprised how many I found. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-09-11T09:32:47-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/transgender-issues.html#unique-entry-id-216http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/transgender-issues.html#unique-entry-id-216People might wonder what the Christian stance on this issue should be. I have a hard time seeing how the Church can take any stance on this issue except listening, learning, and caring about the well being of people. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-10T09:44:44-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-3-8.html#unique-entry-id-215http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-3-8.html#unique-entry-id-215It was characteristic of Paul to begin his letters words of encouragement and congratulation. ]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-09-06T08:48:09-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chesterton-on-miracles.html#unique-entry-id-214http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/chesterton-on-miracles.html#unique-entry-id-214“But my belief that miracles have happened in human history is not a mystical belief at all….”]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2012-09-05T10:54:43-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/school-of-prayer-fall-2012.html#unique-entry-id-213http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/school-of-prayer-fall-2012.html#unique-entry-id-213Once again, I will be leading a School of Prayer, based on Maxie Dunnam’s Workbook of Living Prayer at the Crosswind Community Church in Dorr, Michigan. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-05T09:10:02-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/reflections-song-of-solomon.html#unique-entry-id-212http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/reflections-song-of-solomon.html#unique-entry-id-212“My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away….”]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-09-04T12:45:29-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/outler-on-christian-perfection.html#unique-entry-id-211http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/outler-on-christian-perfection.html#unique-entry-id-211Some comments by the late Albert Outler (1908-1989) about John Wesley’s sermon on “Christian Perfection” (and the fears it arouses)….]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-09-04T11:37:01-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-1-1.html#unique-entry-id-210http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-amos-1-1.html#unique-entry-id-210The very opening words of the book of the prophet Amos raise a question for me. The question is this: Who Speaks for God?]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-08-27T15:45:19-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-209http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-209As the apostle turns to the next part of his greeting — again nothing unusual here at all — he expresses his view of who the Colossian Christians are.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan TheologyChristian Perfection2013-03-14T07:50:08-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-and-the-means-of-grace.html#unique-entry-id-208http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holiness-and-the-means-of-grace.html#unique-entry-id-208A quote from an old (1946) study of the theology of John Wesley (emphasis mine)…]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-08-24T10:17:47-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/adam-clarke-on-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-207http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/adam-clarke-on-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-207Thoughts on prayer by Adam Clarke (1760–1832).]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-08-23T12:54:11-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-prayer-for-enemies.html#unique-entry-id-206http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-prayer-for-enemies.html#unique-entry-id-206An old prayer….]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-08-23T09:01:20-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/active-faith-that-lives-within.html#unique-entry-id-205http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/active-faith-that-lives-within.html#unique-entry-id-205Great words from Charles Wesley….]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-08-22T09:18:23-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ecstatic-nature-of-human-spirituality.html#unique-entry-id-204http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ecstatic-nature-of-human-spirituality.html#unique-entry-id-204Human spirituality is self-transcendence. Here is another way of saying that: there is an ecstatic structure to human spirituality. ]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-08-20T10:16:41-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-1.html#unique-entry-id-203http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-colossians-1-1.html#unique-entry-id-203These verses are our first glimpse, in this letter, of the author and his message.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-08-17T13:31:33-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/introduction-colossians.html#unique-entry-id-202http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/introduction-colossians.html#unique-entry-id-202I'm not sure how I first got interested in Paul's letter to the Colossians, but it is a part of the Scriptures to which I keep returning.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-08-15T10:53:22-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/yancey-praying-like-a-child.html#unique-entry-id-201http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/yancey-praying-like-a-child.html#unique-entry-id-201A quotation from an excellent book on prayer.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-08-13T09:06:25-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-the-validity-of-faith.html#unique-entry-id-200http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-the-validity-of-faith.html#unique-entry-id-200Here are some thoughts on the nature and validity of faith by Wolfhart Pannenberg. I found these in Systematic Theology, Volume 3. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2012-08-01T17:40:22-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/4f424b005bd7077bde8b859db5b43b52-199.html#unique-entry-id-199http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/4f424b005bd7077bde8b859db5b43b52-199.html#unique-entry-id-199When I first came into the ministry, the one thing I knew I never wanted to do was Youth Ministry….]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-07-30T15:30:28-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/glory-to-gods-name.html#unique-entry-id-198http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/glory-to-gods-name.html#unique-entry-id-198Further Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 115:1]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-07-26T12:07:16-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/no-glory-to-us.html#unique-entry-id-197http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/no-glory-to-us.html#unique-entry-id-197Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 115:1. ]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyQuotations2012-07-24T11:56:02-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/transformational-justification-gorman.html#unique-entry-id-196http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/transformational-justification-gorman.html#unique-entry-id-196“For Paul, I would contend, justification means the establishment or restoration of right covenant relations….” ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-07-14T16:45:49-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hengel-apostles-message.html#unique-entry-id-195http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hengel-apostles-message.html#unique-entry-id-195“It is not a matter of chance that in his letters Paul sometimes refers by way of allusion to the narration of stories about Jesus….”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-07-12T12:13:42-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/against-theological-indifference.html#unique-entry-id-193http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/against-theological-indifference.html#unique-entry-id-193“For, from hence we may learn, first, that a catholic spirit is not speculative latitudinarianism. It is not an indifference to all opinions: this is the spawn of hell, not the offspring of heaven….” ]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-07-11T10:27:13-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/all-devoted-to-god.html#unique-entry-id-192http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/all-devoted-to-god.html#unique-entry-id-192“In 1727, I read Mr. Law's 'Christian Perfection,' and 'Serious Call,' and….”]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-07-02T10:31:51-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/gagnon-vs-chambers.html#unique-entry-id-191http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/gagnon-vs-chambers.html#unique-entry-id-191Robert Gagnon is produced a 35 page attack on Alan Chambers’ new direction for the ministry of Exodus International. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSite Update2012-06-30T11:03:03-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/59e13ad11cb87a7bded089f97cd8c798-190.html#unique-entry-id-190http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/59e13ad11cb87a7bded089f97cd8c798-190.html#unique-entry-id-190A very brief personal and site update. (The old site should be gone by tomorrow.) ]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-06-28T15:16:12-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-new-birth.html#unique-entry-id-189http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-new-birth.html#unique-entry-id-189”It is that great change which God works in the soul when he brings it into life….” ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-06-28T07:56:03-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-god-do-you-worship.html#unique-entry-id-188http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-god-do-you-worship.html#unique-entry-id-188Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 135:5. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-06-27T09:35:54-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/church-credible-witness.html#unique-entry-id-186http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/church-credible-witness.html#unique-entry-id-186A brief quote from Pannenberg about the credibility of the Church’s witness. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-06-27T09:11:57-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/faith-is-rest.html#unique-entry-id-185http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/faith-is-rest.html#unique-entry-id-185“Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good….”]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-06-26T13:20:51-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/7d6b4317fb569366e715579a64b13c6d-184.html#unique-entry-id-184http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/7d6b4317fb569366e715579a64b13c6d-184.html#unique-entry-id-184Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 135:1-4.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-06-23T09:54:39-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/finding-the-path.html#unique-entry-id-183http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/finding-the-path.html#unique-entry-id-183Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 25:4, 5.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-06-21T14:27:51-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/05d0ef5f33e6e9b3b52f5b799625bf7b-182.html#unique-entry-id-182http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/05d0ef5f33e6e9b3b52f5b799625bf7b-182.html#unique-entry-id-182Chrysostom: “Prayer is the fortress of the faithful, prayer is our invincible weapon….”]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-06-21T12:40:36-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-is-spirtuality.html#unique-entry-id-181http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-is-spirtuality.html#unique-entry-id-181Here is my thesis. Let's see how far this gets us: human spirituality is self-transcendence. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-06-20T13:46:32-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/individual-and-communal.html#unique-entry-id-180http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/individual-and-communal.html#unique-entry-id-180(Additional) Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 25.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotationsJohn Wesley2012-06-20T09:17:37-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/now-faster-asleep-than-ever.html#unique-entry-id-179http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/now-faster-asleep-than-ever.html#unique-entry-id-179”"I was more convinced than ever, that the preaching like an Apostle, without joining together those that are awakened, and training them up in the ways of God, is only begetting children for the murderer….” ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotationsChristian Perfection2012-06-19T12:57:27-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/we-trust-god-works.html#unique-entry-id-178http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/we-trust-god-works.html#unique-entry-id-178“Now under these circumstances, what is the part of the believer, and what is the part of the Lord?”]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-06-18T11:30:48-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/re-learning-hope.html#unique-entry-id-177http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/re-learning-hope.html#unique-entry-id-177I think it's worthwhile to take a moment to notice the close relationship between the concepts of "waiting" and "hoping."]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-06-12T12:53:31-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-waiting-time.html#unique-entry-id-176http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-waiting-time.html#unique-entry-id-176Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 25. ]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-06-11T10:41:47-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/7a24ccb06899bb586d606765d2b9d634-175.html#unique-entry-id-175http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/7a24ccb06899bb586d606765d2b9d634-175.html#unique-entry-id-175Some links from the Internet. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-06-10T18:49:13-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/fulgentius-grace-scripture.html#unique-entry-id-174http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/fulgentius-grace-scripture.html#unique-entry-id-174“Study your heart in the light of the Holy Scriptures….]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-06-04T08:47:03-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/steadfast-love-and-faithfulness.html#unique-entry-id-173http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/steadfast-love-and-faithfulness.html#unique-entry-id-173Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 57:3. ]]>Craig L. AdamsJazz2012-06-03T13:34:41-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/f9d74eacaf35ea9e0e3806f468ce93cd-172.html#unique-entry-id-172http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/f9d74eacaf35ea9e0e3806f468ce93cd-172.html#unique-entry-id-172Music from the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the Bobby Broom Trio and the Oz Noy Twisted Blues Band. Enjoy.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-06-02T12:48:48-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-good-a-preacher-may-do.html#unique-entry-id-171http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-good-a-preacher-may-do.html#unique-entry-id-171From Thomas Coke: “The good which one single minister, true to the cause in which he has engaged, can do in the course of his life by a faithful ministry of the word, is not easily to be described.”]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-06-01T15:32:34-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-isaiah6-1-3.html#unique-entry-id-170http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-isaiah6-1-3.html#unique-entry-id-170A few comments on Isaiah 6:1-3: this text comes up fairly often in the Lectionary. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-06-01T15:08:57-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/keep-on-seeking.html#unique-entry-id-169http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/keep-on-seeking.html#unique-entry-id-169“The faculty of faith is not meant to kill the faculty of criticism and the instinct of curiosity, but rather to keep them keen and alive….”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyChristian Perfection2012-05-31T09:47:00-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/nature-christian-salvation.html#unique-entry-id-168http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/nature-christian-salvation.html#unique-entry-id-168”Salvation begins with what is usually termed (and very properly) preventing grace; including the first wish to please God….” ]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-05-29T18:29:04-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/reflections-last-judgment.html#unique-entry-id-167http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/reflections-last-judgment.html#unique-entry-id-167A passage in Stanley Grenz’s book on the theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg got me thinking about the Final Judgment of God. ]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-05-29T12:22:34-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/Ramachandra-leadership-and-intergrity.html#unique-entry-id-166http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/Ramachandra-leadership-and-intergrity.html#unique-entry-id-166A Guest Blog by Dr Vinoth Ramachandra. “How tragic, then, that this egalitarian, socially subversive movement centred on the worship of a crucified Jew so quickly morphed into yet another “religion”, with all the conventional religious trappings including a professional male priesthood, a two-tier spirituality and sacred buildings. This was the first betrayal of the gospel by the church, and it continues to the present day.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsThe United Methodist Church2012-05-29T09:59:49-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-somewhere-in-michigan.html#unique-entry-id-165http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/from-somewhere-in-michigan.html#unique-entry-id-165”A poorly performing bishop devastates conferences.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsChurch History2012-05-28T13:00:08-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/booth-video.html#unique-entry-id-164http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/booth-video.html#unique-entry-id-164100 years after William Booth’s death and you can still hear him speak... ]]>Craig L. AdamsJazz2012-05-27T16:30:36-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/19c8a19afa1a0188461afc56516fe0d7-163.html#unique-entry-id-163http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/19c8a19afa1a0188461afc56516fe0d7-163.html#unique-entry-id-163“Blue Monk” The Thelonious Monk Quartet (1966). “Take Five” The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1966). And, a link to a wonderful George Benson version of “Take Five.”]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan TheologyChristian Perfection2012-05-26T14:30:25-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/spirit-baptism-wesleyanism-pentecostalism.html#unique-entry-id-162http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/spirit-baptism-wesleyanism-pentecostalism.html#unique-entry-id-162There is a relationship between early Methodist teachings and the later development of Pentecostal teaching. In fact, a direct line can be traced between the teaching of the early Methodists and the teaching of the early Pentecostals. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-05-26T13:58:56-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/its-not-in-vain.html#unique-entry-id-161http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/its-not-in-vain.html#unique-entry-id-161A quotation from N. T. Wright’s book Surprised by Hope. ]]>Craig L. AdamsChristian Perfection2012-05-25T12:34:23-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/aquinas-christian-perfection.html#unique-entry-id-160http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/aquinas-christian-perfection.html#unique-entry-id-160Several years ago I did a lot of reading in the theology of Thomas Aquinas. In doing so, I came across the following quote quite by accident — I wasn’t looking for something on this topic.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-05-24T10:43:10-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-having-enemies.html#unique-entry-id-159http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/on-having-enemies.html#unique-entry-id-159Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 57:3.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyChristian Perfection2012-05-23T16:54:12-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-sinful-body.html#unique-entry-id-158http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-sinful-body.html#unique-entry-id-158John Wesley responds to this objection: ‘But surely we cannot be saved from sin, while we dwell in a sinful body.’ ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-05-23T16:07:48-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/determinism-and-common-sesne.html#unique-entry-id-157http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/determinism-and-common-sesne.html#unique-entry-id-157A quotation from G. K. Chesterton: “On that day, in short, I escaped from an error, which still entangles many better men than myself….” ]]>Craig L. AdamsCalvinism2012-05-22T14:29:52-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/calvinism-and-john6-44.html#unique-entry-id-156http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/calvinism-and-john6-44.html#unique-entry-id-156An email and my response. “I read with interest your comments on Calvin's comments on John 3:16 on your web site. I was wondering what your thoughts are on Jesus' words as recorded in John 6:44: ‘No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.’ (NKJV)”]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-05-21T15:54:54-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/god-will-send-from-heaven.html#unique-entry-id-154http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/god-will-send-from-heaven.html#unique-entry-id-154Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 57:3. ]]>Craig L. AdamsJazz2012-05-20T18:40:00-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/4dbb1e3225c43cb5c06bf42f1e2856da-153.html#unique-entry-id-153http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/4dbb1e3225c43cb5c06bf42f1e2856da-153.html#unique-entry-id-153“The Sorcerer.” Herbie Hancock Quintet live in Vienne 2002. “My Favorite Things.” John Coltrane Quartet. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-05-19T10:57:06-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/moltmann-trinity-and-freedom.html#unique-entry-id-152http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/moltmann-trinity-and-freedom.html#unique-entry-id-152“The doctrine of the Trinity which evolves out of the surmounting of monotheism for Christ’s sake, must therefore also overcome this monarchism, which legitimates dependency, helplessness and servitude.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-05-19T08:19:14-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/grace-perfects-nature.html#unique-entry-id-151http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/grace-perfects-nature.html#unique-entry-id-151A brief quote.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-05-18T14:51:13-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/god-the-fulfiller.html#unique-entry-id-150http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/god-the-fulfiller.html#unique-entry-id-150(Additional) Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 57:2.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-05-17T10:03:44-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/intent-to-pray.html#unique-entry-id-149http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/intent-to-pray.html#unique-entry-id-149Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 57:2. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-05-16T14:46:30-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cslewis-on-marriage.html#unique-entry-id-148http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cslewis-on-marriage.html#unique-entry-id-148An interesting quote from C. S. Lewis in 1952, relevant (possibly) to current controversies about marriage.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan TheologyChristian Perfection2012-05-16T11:57:15-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/quotes-cleansed-and-abiding.html#unique-entry-id-147http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/quotes-cleansed-and-abiding.html#unique-entry-id-147Here are some quotes I recently shared on Twitter, from Cleansed and Abiding: A Proposed View of Christian Perfection by James-Michael Smith. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a fresh re-interpretation of Wesley’s doctrine of Christian Perfection — and for anyone who wonders about it.
]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-03-06T12:42:01-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-faith-and-final-salvation.html#unique-entry-id-146http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-faith-and-final-salvation.html#unique-entry-id-146“Thus the condition necessary to final salvation coincides fairly closely with that necessary to the maintenance of the Christian life in general. In both cases it is a matter of the faith active in love.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-05-14T09:11:14-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lord-have-mercy.html#unique-entry-id-145http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lord-have-mercy.html#unique-entry-id-145Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 57:0-1.]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-05-12T14:51:55-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/agree-to-disagree-agreements.html#unique-entry-id-144http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/agree-to-disagree-agreements.html#unique-entry-id-144Are there, in fact, some things Christians could agree upon, even if they find they have to disagree on the morality of same gender sex?]]>Craig L. AdamsPreaching2013-05-23T10:19:05-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/clarkes-advice-to-a-young-preacher.html#unique-entry-id-143http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/clarkes-advice-to-a-young-preacher.html#unique-entry-id-143Advice from a letter by Adam Clarke to a young man contemplating the ministry — and why I think it’s good advice.]]>Craig L. AdamsHolidays2012-05-11T07:53:36-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/history-of-mothers-day.html#unique-entry-id-142http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/history-of-mothers-day.html#unique-entry-id-142[But be Warned: this story does not have a happy ending.]]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-05-10T15:35:06-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/denney-on-atonement.html#unique-entry-id-141http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/denney-on-atonement.html#unique-entry-id-141“The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in vital relation to a new life in which sin is overcome... is entirely legitimate….”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-05-09T10:16:59-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-original-design-of-the-methodists.html#unique-entry-id-140http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-original-design-of-the-methodists.html#unique-entry-id-140A brief quote from John Wesley.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-05-08T14:43:39-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-wax-wane.html#unique-entry-id-139http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-wax-wane.html#unique-entry-id-139“There is no perfection 'which does not admit of a continual increase.’”]]>Craig L. AdamsTheologyWesleyan Theology2012-05-07T11:24:08-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/toward-a-wesleyan-eschatology.html#unique-entry-id-138http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/toward-a-wesleyan-eschatology.html#unique-entry-id-138Here’s a question that often comes up. Where do John Wesley and his early followers fit in the familiar end-time schemas? ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-05-06T19:35:21-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bushnell-on-preachers.html#unique-entry-id-137http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bushnell-on-preachers.html#unique-entry-id-137“…then it is required that the preacher shall drop lecturing on religion and preach it, testify it, prophesy it, speak to faith as being in faith, bring inspiration as being inspired, and so become the vehicle, in his own person, of the power he will communicate….”]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-05-05T07:56:25-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/af3b994a2e077c311a17e3d8dbd37115-136.html#unique-entry-id-136http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/af3b994a2e077c311a17e3d8dbd37115-136.html#unique-entry-id-136A prayer — found on the internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2013-05-14T15:02:30-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/being-open-to-correction.html#unique-entry-id-134http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/being-open-to-correction.html#unique-entry-id-134“But some may say, I have mistaken the way myself, although I take upon me to teach it to others…”]]>Craig L. AdamsThe Life of Faith2012-05-03T09:15:54-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/christian-growth.html#unique-entry-id-133http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/christian-growth.html#unique-entry-id-133Christian growth is necessary to the maintenance of our faith.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-05-02T12:40:53-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/to-the-forsaken.html#unique-entry-id-132http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/to-the-forsaken.html#unique-entry-id-132A brief quotation from Walter Brueggemann. ]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-05-01T16:31:18-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/purpose-of-life.html#unique-entry-id-131http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/purpose-of-life.html#unique-entry-id-131John Wesley comments on the purpose of life. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-04-30T15:45:35-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/transforming-the-christian-conversation-on-homosexuality.html#unique-entry-id-130http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/transforming-the-christian-conversation-on-homosexuality.html#unique-entry-id-130Two long videos featuring Justin Lee & Ron Belgau at Pepperdine University. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2012-04-25T14:53:04-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/keryx.html#unique-entry-id-129http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/keryx.html#unique-entry-id-129I won’t be posting here over the weekend. I’ll be in prison.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-04-25T10:22:36-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/original-design-of-the-churchA.html#unique-entry-id-128http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/original-design-of-the-churchA.html#unique-entry-id-128A brief quote from John Wesley.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-04-25T07:34:25-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hixon-thoughts-on-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-127http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/hixon-thoughts-on-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-127A guest blog by Daniel McLain Hixon. Have you ever wondered if God is pleased with the Church's prayers?]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyQuotations2012-04-24T09:44:02-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/nature-of-true-faith.html#unique-entry-id-126http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/nature-of-true-faith.html#unique-entry-id-126“Only beware thou do not deceive thy own soul with regard to the nature of this faith….”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-23T14:31:18-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/sayers-no-offense.html#unique-entry-id-125http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/sayers-no-offense.html#unique-entry-id-125A brief quote from Dorothy Sayers.]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodism2012-04-21T14:30:20-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/infrastructure-of-renewal.html#unique-entry-id-124http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/infrastructure-of-renewal.html#unique-entry-id-124What can be learned for our day from the original Methodist evangelistic & discipleship strategy?]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2013-03-08T16:17:51-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-gods-law-keeps-us-alive.html#unique-entry-id-123http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-gods-law-keeps-us-alive.html#unique-entry-id-123A brief quote on the function of the moral law in the Christian life.]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodismWesleyan Theology2012-04-19T17:05:05-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/things-methodism-stands-for.html#unique-entry-id-122http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/things-methodism-stands-for.html#unique-entry-id-122Here's a great old article about Methodism and what the Methodist churches teach — and seek to live. The author summarizes the things that have made Methodism a distinctive movement within Christianity.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-04-18T08:50:30-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/charactorizing-walk-with-god.html#unique-entry-id-121http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/charactorizing-walk-with-god.html#unique-entry-id-121Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 15:3-5. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalmsChristian Perfection2012-04-17T12:01:57-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-perfect-walk.html#unique-entry-id-120http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-perfect-walk.html#unique-entry-id-120Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 15:2. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-04-16T11:23:12-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/living-in-gods-presence.html#unique-entry-id-119http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/living-in-gods-presence.html#unique-entry-id-119Reflections and a prayer on Psalm 15:1.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan TheologyChristian Perfection2012-04-13T11:07:31-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-test-of-spiritual-expereinces.html#unique-entry-id-118http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-test-of-spiritual-expereinces.html#unique-entry-id-118"Another ground of these, and a thousand mistakes, is, the not considering deeply, that love is the highest gift of God….” ]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-04-12T15:59:17-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/but-now-i-am-disarmed.html#unique-entry-id-117http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/but-now-i-am-disarmed.html#unique-entry-id-117“I have waged this war against myself for many years. It was terrible….”]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-04-11T14:33:23-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cd4a51e298e5ef6a935fbb64109b5c75-116.html#unique-entry-id-116http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cd4a51e298e5ef6a935fbb64109b5c75-116.html#unique-entry-id-116A nice quote on Pentecostal Christianity. Found on the Internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan TheologyChristian Perfection2013-03-07T09:26:35-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-forgiveness-and-sanctification.html#unique-entry-id-115http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lindstrom-forgiveness-and-sanctification.html#unique-entry-id-115“Forgiveness and sanctification are the two cardinal factors in [John Wesley’s] idea of salvation….”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-10T14:19:44-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/spiritual-blindness.html#unique-entry-id-114http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/spiritual-blindness.html#unique-entry-id-114A brief quote from Thomas á Kempis.]]>Craig L. AdamsSite Update2012-04-10T13:34:17-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/1ee9a5f5294d5a8874d3a72c4eef7c03-113.html#unique-entry-id-113http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/1ee9a5f5294d5a8874d3a72c4eef7c03-113.html#unique-entry-id-113A brief update about changes — and planned changes — at this site.]]>Craig L. AdamsCalvinism2012-04-09T17:29:06-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/calvin-on-john3-16.html#unique-entry-id-112http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/calvin-on-john3-16.html#unique-entry-id-112Calvin’s commentary on John 3:16 — with my rebuttal. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-07T11:02:22-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/pannenberg-easter-and-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-110http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/pannenberg-easter-and-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-110“Only as he let his creaturely existence be consumed in service to his mission could Jesus as a creature be one with God.”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-06T14:13:46-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/o-love-divine.html#unique-entry-id-109http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/o-love-divine.html#unique-entry-id-109The words of a hymn about the Cross — from the pen of Charles Wesley.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-05T16:35:40-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/three-crosses.html#unique-entry-id-108http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/three-crosses.html#unique-entry-id-108A quotation from a little book by Peter Storey. “The men who hung on the three crosses also turned them into very different instruments upon which to die.” ]]>Craig L. AdamsReconciliation2012-04-04T16:00:48-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-message-of-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-107http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-message-of-the-cross.html#unique-entry-id-107 “For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18 NRSV)]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-04T15:44:37-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/oden-the-text-and-the-interpreter.html#unique-entry-id-106http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/oden-the-text-and-the-interpreter.html#unique-entry-id-106A quote from theologian Thomas Oden.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-04-03T18:23:50-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-full-reliance-on-the-blood-of-christ.html#unique-entry-id-105http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-full-reliance-on-the-blood-of-christ.html#unique-entry-id-105“Christian faith is then, not only an assent to the whole gospel of Christ…. ]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-04-03T18:41:24-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/7e1626b9ed71d9bafa6329e2e9b0cbdf-104.html#unique-entry-id-104http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/7e1626b9ed71d9bafa6329e2e9b0cbdf-104.html#unique-entry-id-104Various links from around the Internet: food for thought.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-03T09:36:15-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/form-of-belief-or-God.html#unique-entry-id-103http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/form-of-belief-or-God.html#unique-entry-id-103A brief quote from Oswald Chambers. Found on the Internet. ]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-04-02T15:50:12-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-thoughts-for-holy-week.html#unique-entry-id-102http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/some-thoughts-for-holy-week.html#unique-entry-id-102Some Thoughts for Holy Week: from Thomas á Kempis & Henri Nouwen.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-04-01T18:29:35-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/gethsemane.html#unique-entry-id-101http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/gethsemane.html#unique-entry-id-101There is something mysterious about Jesus' struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane. There was a depth of suffering there that is impossible to imagine.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-03-30T16:31:29-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/spirit-self-trancendance-community.html#unique-entry-id-100http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/spirit-self-trancendance-community.html#unique-entry-id-100The Spirit of God lifts us beyond ourselves. And, this is the basis of community.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-03-30T12:02:13-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/neglect-of-private-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-99http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/neglect-of-private-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-99“Without this, all the other means which they enjoyed could profit them nothing.”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-03-28T17:53:41-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/kempis-leadership.html#unique-entry-id-98http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/kempis-leadership.html#unique-entry-id-98A brief quote on leadership from Thomas á Kempis. ]]>Craig L. AdamsThe United Methodist Church2012-03-27T19:36:31-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/united-methodist-insight.html#unique-entry-id-96http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/united-methodist-insight.html#unique-entry-id-96An informational project for those interested in the United Methodist Church and issues facing the United Methodist General Conference. ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-03-27T18:39:27-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/0e185281b32f5d4c6ff21a02d049f0e6-95.html#unique-entry-id-95http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/0e185281b32f5d4c6ff21a02d049f0e6-95.html#unique-entry-id-95Words of wisdom from The Wesley Study Bible. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-03-26T13:12:54-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-prayer-of-blessing.html#unique-entry-id-93http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-prayer-of-blessing.html#unique-entry-id-93Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 106: 4, 5.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-03-26T08:57:03-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holding-the-world-together.html#unique-entry-id-92http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/holding-the-world-together.html#unique-entry-id-92A wonderful quote on prayer, from St. John Climacus (ca. 579-649).]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-03-25T16:49:42-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/9045225095bf31b1f56e7404cf33c073-91.html#unique-entry-id-91http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/9045225095bf31b1f56e7404cf33c073-91.html#unique-entry-id-91Various links from around the Internet: food for thought.]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality Issues2012-03-23T15:47:46-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/homosexuality-why-perceptions-are-changing.html#unique-entry-id-90http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/homosexuality-why-perceptions-are-changing.html#unique-entry-id-90As Riley Case says: “Another General Conference coming up for United Methodists and another showdown over the Bible, the tradition of the Church, and the practice of homosexuality.”]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-03-21T13:41:50-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/toward-a-theology-of-levity.html#unique-entry-id-89http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/toward-a-theology-of-levity.html#unique-entry-id-89Thomas Aquinas on the value of humor.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-03-20T18:03:33-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/melchizedek.html#unique-entry-id-88http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/melchizedek.html#unique-entry-id-88Plowing through all the nonsense that has been written about the figure of Melchizedek in the book of Hebrews.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-03-20T12:11:48-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-path-of-moral-progress.html#unique-entry-id-87http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-path-of-moral-progress.html#unique-entry-id-87A quote from C. H. Dodd on the theology of the apostle Paul — and sanctification by faith.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-03-19T12:52:55-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/eec88c5bce02e8a9b1259a2bb8cf9b4e-86.html#unique-entry-id-86http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/eec88c5bce02e8a9b1259a2bb8cf9b4e-86.html#unique-entry-id-86Various links from around the Internet: food for thought.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-03-19T10:19:51-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/keeping-justice-and-righteousness.html#unique-entry-id-85http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/keeping-justice-and-righteousness.html#unique-entry-id-85Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 106:3.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-03-16T12:28:16-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rapture-theology.html#unique-entry-id-84http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/rapture-theology.html#unique-entry-id-84There are certain common features of conservative Christian teaching about the return of Christ which have little or no backing from the Scriptures.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-03-14T14:58:26-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/kneeling-christian-essence--of-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-83http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/kneeling-christian-essence--of-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-83An excerpt from an old book on prayer.]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-03-14T11:35:30-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/faith-is-not-a-work.html#unique-entry-id-82http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/faith-is-not-a-work.html#unique-entry-id-82A quotation from a book by Jerry L. Walls and Joseph R. Dongell. ]]>Craig L. AdamsWesleyan Theology2012-03-13T15:10:16-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cc1817c37e61f1ee477ef16f27922383-81.html#unique-entry-id-81http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cc1817c37e61f1ee477ef16f27922383-81.html#unique-entry-id-81A few lines from good, old Charles Wesley, found at a newly reborn blog.]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-03-12T16:55:53-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/predicament-clayton-knapp.html#unique-entry-id-80http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/predicament-clayton-knapp.html#unique-entry-id-80I’ve just started reading The Predicament of Belief by Philip Clayton & Steven Knapp. It’s a good book which I might, very well, have ignored.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-03-12T13:45:18-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/12585bd1bc696171aa9c21f69649655c-79.html#unique-entry-id-79http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/12585bd1bc696171aa9c21f69649655c-79.html#unique-entry-id-79In the wake of the recent deviating storms, several Asbury Theological Seminary professors were asked this question: "Are natural disasters the will of God?" ]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2012-03-09T09:28:23-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/testimony.html#unique-entry-id-78http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/testimony.html#unique-entry-id-78I know that my perspective is shaped by the experiences I’ve been through. ]]>Craig L. AdamsSexuality IssuesChristian Perfection2012-03-08T12:49:29-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesleyan-perspective-human-sexuality.html#unique-entry-id-77http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesleyan-perspective-human-sexuality.html#unique-entry-id-77Is there something distinctive about Wesleyan teaching that can give Christians guidance as we think about human sexuality? I think there is.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-03-06T18:07:20-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/way-blessedness.html#unique-entry-id-76http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/way-blessedness.html#unique-entry-id-76Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 1:1-3.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-02-28T09:44:10-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bonhoeffer-ot-foundations.html#unique-entry-id-74http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bonhoeffer-ot-foundations.html#unique-entry-id-74A quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer: what is the Christian approach to the Old Testament?]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-02-27T16:15:58-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/atonement-and-communication.html#unique-entry-id-73http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/atonement-and-communication.html#unique-entry-id-73“Rather than the traditional view of the atonement which sees it primarily as a transaction between the Father and the Son apart from humanity….”]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-02-27T09:49:26-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/aaaa768d0f34abd41d50a8ac019bd6c7-72.html#unique-entry-id-72http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/aaaa768d0f34abd41d50a8ac019bd6c7-72.html#unique-entry-id-72Various links from around the Internet: food for thought.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-02-26T14:09:21-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/steele-new-prinicple-of-life.html#unique-entry-id-69http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/steele-new-prinicple-of-life.html#unique-entry-id-69“Regeneration is the lodgement by the Holy Spirit of the new principle of life.”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-02-25T15:03:16-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-on-pelagius.html#unique-entry-id-68http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-on-pelagius.html#unique-entry-id-68References to Pelagius in the writings of John Wesley. Wesley gave the man the benefit of the doubt.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-02-25T14:39:28-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/olsons-litmus-test.html#unique-entry-id-67http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/olsons-litmus-test.html#unique-entry-id-67On the topic of exclusivist Christians: some strong words from Roger E. Olson.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-02-24T11:55:12-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/turn-your-eyes-upon-jesus.html#unique-entry-id-66http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/turn-your-eyes-upon-jesus.html#unique-entry-id-66Thoughts appropriate to Lent from the book of Revelation.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-02-23T09:37:12-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/Psalm-1-1.html#unique-entry-id-65http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/Psalm-1-1.html#unique-entry-id-65Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 1: an invitation into a life of blessing.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-02-22T10:41:38-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-self-denial.html#unique-entry-id-63http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-self-denial.html#unique-entry-id-63A quote from John Wesley about self-denial — and a question.]]>Craig L. AdamsThe Church Year2012-02-21T09:21:04-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ash-wednesday.html#unique-entry-id-62http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/ash-wednesday.html#unique-entry-id-62Since tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, and this begins the important Church season of Lent, I thought I’d share some thoughts on this topic. Ash Wednesday services are important to me — when I can attend. But, I haven’t always felt that way about it.]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodismWesleyan Theology2012-02-20T10:00:14-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-are-methodists.html#unique-entry-id-61http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-are-methodists.html#unique-entry-id-61A summary statement, loosely based on John Wesley’s essay The Character of a Methodist.]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodism2012-02-19T16:53:20-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/women-leaders-in-wesleyan-movements.html#unique-entry-id-60http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/women-leaders-in-wesleyan-movements.html#unique-entry-id-60Guest post by Kevin Jackson: “some short biographies of women who were early leaders (prior to 1900) in the various Wesleyan inspired movements. The Methodist, Holiness, and Charismatic movements all have a rich egalitarian history.”]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-05-07T16:53:15-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/sd-gordon-gods-power-is-moral-power.html#unique-entry-id-59http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/sd-gordon-gods-power-is-moral-power.html#unique-entry-id-59A quotation from an old book on prayer. ]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-02-18T12:47:59-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/praise-and-silence.html#unique-entry-id-57http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/praise-and-silence.html#unique-entry-id-57Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 106:1, 2.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-02-16T10:00:21-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/failure-backdrop-to-praise.html#unique-entry-id-56http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/failure-backdrop-to-praise.html#unique-entry-id-56Reflections and a Prayer on Psalm 106:6.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-02-15T11:30:08-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-man-of-one-book.html#unique-entry-id-55http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-man-of-one-book.html#unique-entry-id-55Now here’s a John Wesley quote that simply has to be on this site somewhere….]]>Craig L. AdamsThe Church Year2012-02-14T16:40:09-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lent-then-and-now.html#unique-entry-id-54http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/lent-then-and-now.html#unique-entry-id-54The history of the season of Lent is interesting for us today. Though we do not celebrate it as people did in the past, a look at the history of Lent can give meaning to this season of the Church year.]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonalPrayer2012-02-14T13:35:50-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-morning-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-53http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-morning-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-53Many years ago I made a quiet spiritual breakthrough in my life.]]>Craig L. AdamsThe United Methodist Church2012-02-13T13:35:49-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/riley-case-trust-bishops.html#unique-entry-id-52http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/riley-case-trust-bishops.html#unique-entry-id-52This came in my email inbox, from the Confessing Movement in the United Methodist Church.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-02-13T11:57:26-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-the-bible.html#unique-entry-id-51http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-on-the-bible.html#unique-entry-id-51I've gathered together on this page everything substantive that John Wesley said about the Bible.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-02-12T16:46:13-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bonhoeffer-christianity-without-discipleship.html#unique-entry-id-50http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bonhoeffer-christianity-without-discipleship.html#unique-entry-id-50A great quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship.]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodism2012-02-10T12:43:26-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wheres-the-revival-now.html#unique-entry-id-49http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wheres-the-revival-now.html#unique-entry-id-49What are the evangelistic strategies of today that have replaced the strategies of the past?]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodismInternet Links2012-02-10T09:55:18-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/complete-salvation-and-nothing-less.html#unique-entry-id-48http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/complete-salvation-and-nothing-less.html#unique-entry-id-48A recent Internet exchange about the meaning of discipleship in the United Methodist Church.]]>Craig L. AdamsBooks2012-02-08T13:35:41-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/5d0ecc00bcc4fd78918b5f91945d615b-46.html#unique-entry-id-46http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/5d0ecc00bcc4fd78918b5f91945d615b-46.html#unique-entry-id-46Yes, there is yet another book coming out by N. T. Wright: How God Became King.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2012-02-08T12:11:25-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/should-we-take-the-bible-literally.html#unique-entry-id-45http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/should-we-take-the-bible-literally.html#unique-entry-id-45People sometimes say they take the Bible literally. Some say they don’t take it literally. What on earth do people mean when they say things like that?]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-02-08T09:29:43-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/speak-and-spare-not.html#unique-entry-id-44http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/speak-and-spare-not.html#unique-entry-id-44John Wesley said: “"Where Christian perfection is not strongly and explicitly preached, there is seldom any remarkable blessing from God….”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-02-07T17:56:52-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/things-john-wesley-never-said.html#unique-entry-id-43http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/things-john-wesley-never-said.html#unique-entry-id-43More false Wesley quotes.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-02-07T16:42:22-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-did-not-burn-sermons.html#unique-entry-id-42http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesley-did-not-burn-sermons.html#unique-entry-id-42John Wesley did not burn his old sermons. Of course not.
]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-02-06T10:17:13-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/f50d2153551d140fe4ae00cc312b1642-41.html#unique-entry-id-41http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/f50d2153551d140fe4ae00cc312b1642-41.html#unique-entry-id-41Various links from around the Internet: food for thought.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2012-02-06T09:04:20-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/praying-the-psalms.html#unique-entry-id-40http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/praying-the-psalms.html#unique-entry-id-40How I learned to pray the Psalms.]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodism2012-02-05T17:12:52-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/whitaker-on-umc.html#unique-entry-id-39http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/whitaker-on-umc.html#unique-entry-id-39Remarks on the state of the United Methodist Church by Florida Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-02-05T15:20:38-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/c6040f9e3567e5f426d4f60ded7feec6-38.html#unique-entry-id-38http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/c6040f9e3567e5f426d4f60ded7feec6-38.html#unique-entry-id-38Various links from around the Internet: food for thought.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-05-10T11:33:52-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/jesus-had-female-disciples.html#unique-entry-id-37http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/jesus-had-female-disciples.html#unique-entry-id-37Some helpful remarks from John P. Meier’s book A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus (Volume 3: Companions and Competitors).]]>Craig L. AdamsTheology2012-01-25T12:00:03-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/theology-as-provisional.html#unique-entry-id-36http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/theology-as-provisional.html#unique-entry-id-36Theology is always an interim report. It is always learning, always growing, always being revised in light of new information.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2012-01-20T14:35:37-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-is-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-35http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/what-is-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-35The 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.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-01-16T14:51:11-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/eaa6088d332acd96990f23eff4f0e1a4-34.html#unique-entry-id-34http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/eaa6088d332acd96990f23eff4f0e1a4-34.html#unique-entry-id-34Various links from around the Internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsHoliness2012-01-16T14:48:48-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-blessing-or-god.html#unique-entry-id-33http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-blessing-or-god.html#unique-entry-id-33“Once it was the blessing, Now it is the Lord....”]]>Craig L. AdamsHolinessWesleyan Theology2012-01-11T14:01:30-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/sanctification-as-a-central-theme.html#unique-entry-id-32http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/sanctification-as-a-central-theme.html#unique-entry-id-32I originally built this web site to be primarily about the Wesleyan Doctrine of Christian Perfection. And, that is still my intention.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-01-06T15:13:32-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/0e60d2b45ff0c488af26c49cf1f207a5-31.html#unique-entry-id-31http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/0e60d2b45ff0c488af26c49cf1f207a5-31.html#unique-entry-id-31Various links from around the Internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyChristian Perfection2012-12-13T08:28:04-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-whole-of-christian-perfection.html#unique-entry-id-30http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/the-whole-of-christian-perfection.html#unique-entry-id-30“What is then the perfection of which man is capable while he dwells in a corruptible body?”]]>Craig L. AdamsBiblical Theology2012-01-04T13:36:35-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/1072cc00ed12bbd4573863e536b65258-29.html#unique-entry-id-29http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/1072cc00ed12bbd4573863e536b65258-29.html#unique-entry-id-29An interesting quote from Reinhard Feldmeier & Hermann Spieckermann’s book God of the Living: A Biblical Theology.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2012-01-03T15:25:54-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bd78af9fc3af619295f24dbc901c744e-28.html#unique-entry-id-28http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/bd78af9fc3af619295f24dbc901c744e-28.html#unique-entry-id-28What, if anything, do these quotes say about Christian political involvement?]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2012-01-03T15:18:12-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/61f0b187a465e83643390179ced1a2d9-27.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/61f0b187a465e83643390179ced1a2d9-27.html#unique-entry-id-27Various links from around the Internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodism2011-12-31T10:01:51-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/religion-cannot-grace-can.html#unique-entry-id-25http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/religion-cannot-grace-can.html#unique-entry-id-25Let’s look to the New Year with faith in a God who is always able to renew and transform us by grace. Let’s trust in a God who can make more of our lives than we ever could ourselves.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2011-12-29T10:57:12-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/77992b5d921ce88cea322faf9ae931b6-24.html#unique-entry-id-24http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/77992b5d921ce88cea322faf9ae931b6-24.html#unique-entry-id-24Various links from around the Internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-12-28T11:25:53-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesleys-new-year.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/john-wesleys-new-year.html#unique-entry-id-23How John Wesley Spent the New Year in 1785.]]>Craig L. AdamsThe Church Year2012-12-28T11:28:43-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/childermas.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/childermas.html#unique-entry-id-22Holy Innocents' Day, also called Childermas or Children's Mass is commemorated on December 28 in the Church of England, the Lutheran Church and the Roman Catholic Church.]]>Craig L. AdamsHolinessWesleyan Theology2011-12-28T12:19:37-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/reversing-the-flow-of-contagion.html#unique-entry-id-21http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/reversing-the-flow-of-contagion.html#unique-entry-id-21“...the New Testament shows Jesus touching the unclean and not being defiled thereby.”]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2011-12-27T10:21:12-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/d1283535dc5093715647044a44636ba8-20.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/d1283535dc5093715647044a44636ba8-20.html#unique-entry-id-20Various links from around the Internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2011-12-26T12:12:06-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/clarke-on-luke2.html#unique-entry-id-19http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/clarke-on-luke2.html#unique-entry-id-19Adam Clarke’s Commentary on Luke 2:15-21.]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2011-12-26T12:04:53-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/1f649680021edc93e5a659738900342d-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/1f649680021edc93e5a659738900342d-18.html#unique-entry-id-18Various links from around the Internet.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2012-12-10T14:43:50-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-covenant-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-covenant-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-17The Prayer from John Wesley's 1780 Covenant Service; the text and some links.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2011-12-23T12:01:58-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cowman-tear-up-the-itinerary.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/cowman-tear-up-the-itinerary.html#unique-entry-id-16“Your guide will keep to no beaten path.”]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2013-04-15T17:07:18-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/maddox-scripture-and-the-analogy-of-faith.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/maddox-scripture-and-the-analogy-of-faith.html#unique-entry-id-14Randy Maddox on John Wesley’s principles for interpreting Scripture.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2011-12-13T14:12:12-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/490ba05db6a05dc7b86b9eb77e5ca8db-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/490ba05db6a05dc7b86b9eb77e5ca8db-13.html#unique-entry-id-13“I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart. I will put my spirit in you and will see to it that you follow my laws and keep all the commands I have given you.” — Ezekiel 36:26-27, TEV]]>Craig L. AdamsInternet Links2011-12-12T15:11:39-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/8a644ab13fa283399f05b631537ff13a-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/8a644ab13fa283399f05b631537ff13a-12.html#unique-entry-id-12Craig L. AdamsCalvinism2011-12-12T14:02:06-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/e389c0ca5c1011541b2cf6f6def5b009-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/e389c0ca5c1011541b2cf6f6def5b009-11.html#unique-entry-id-11Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyQuotations2013-04-23T11:50:24-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/methodists-described.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/methodists-described.html#unique-entry-id-10A brief quotation from John Wesley.]]>Craig L. AdamsPsalms2011-12-09T11:29:21-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/how-does-god-think-of-us.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/how-does-god-think-of-us.html#unique-entry-id-9Craig L. AdamsChurch History2012-12-06T08:27:44-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/old-saint-nick.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/old-saint-nick.html#unique-entry-id-8Happy St. Nicholas Day! Here are some links to Information about the real St. Nicholas.]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn Wesley2013-04-15T14:25:56-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-on-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/wesley-on-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-7“All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer...”]]>Craig L. AdamsJohn WesleyWesleyan TheologyQuotations2013-04-11T10:46:15-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/two-paths.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/two-paths.html#unique-entry-id-6A quote from John Wesley: Christians have “the choice of walking in the higher or the lower path.”]]>Craig L. AdamsMethodism2013-04-10T18:06:38-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/runyon-a-holy-dissatisfaction.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/runyon-a-holy-dissatisfaction.html#unique-entry-id-5Theodore Runyon on sanctification and social change.]]>Craig L. AdamsBible2011-11-21T09:41:20-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-isaiah-64-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/notes-on-isaiah-64-1-2.html#unique-entry-id-4Craig L. AdamsTheology2011-11-21T08:26:39-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/short-course-on-pannenberg.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/short-course-on-pannenberg.html#unique-entry-id-3Some videos and introductory material on the theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.]]>Craig L. AdamsPersonal2011-11-19T09:18:00-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/8ae98c73701b48a6f5f242bf46dbf7c5-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/8ae98c73701b48a6f5f242bf46dbf7c5-2.html#unique-entry-id-2Things have changed a bit here at the house, and there is now a room on the main floor that is available as a Study/Office.]]>Craig L. AdamsQuotations2013-04-10T17:45:06-04:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/aquinas-power-and-goodness.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/aquinas-power-and-goodness.html#unique-entry-id-1A brief quote from Thomas Aquinas.]]>Craig L. AdamsPrayer2011-11-18T16:37:13-05:00http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-palm-sunday-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.craigladams.com/blog/files/a-palm-sunday-prayer.html#unique-entry-id-0"Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." — Zechariah 9:9 NRSV.
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