Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Revisiting Holiness part 2
Here is the first article and third article in this series. One of the mistakes I made when I viewed holiness was believing it was a matter of will power. Holiness seemed like something I could attain if I could work hard enough. Since I felt it was all about my will power, I found…
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Revisiting Holiness part 1
I don’t honestly know where to begin. My journey with holiness has been strained over the years. Of course, as a young Christian, I believed in the importance of holiness…I just couldn’t live up to my own expectations. As I attended seminary, I started viewing holiness (and the holiness tradition) as based on antiquated rules…
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Reflections on Chapter 1 of The New Christians by Tony Jones
Just read the first chapter of Tony Jones’ new book, The New Christians. I don’t have the book. The chapter I read was free on the internet. I requested a copy from Tony to review on Missional Methodist Movement website, but as of now, I haven’t received it. I mention that because I want to…
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Day 7 Sleep Experiment
I didn’t realize moving from being a ‘natural riser’ to an ‘alarm clock’ riser would be so difficult. There were a few mornings that all I wanted to do was to turn off the alarm and get back into bed. God enabled me to overcome that temptation. It had to be God because every fiber…
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John Wesley on the Importance of Fasting
First Wesley voices his concern that Methodists are not fasting like they did at one time: 14. It would be easy to show, in how many respects the Methodists, in general, are deplorably wanting in the practice of Christian self-denial; from which, indeed, they have been continually frighted by the silly outcries of the…
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Perhaps Chicken Little was Right!
Yikes! A satellite is falling to earth and NASA doesn’t know where it will land. I guess we have until March to be prepared. They say that the debris will span a couple hundred miles. Hopefully the plan to ‘shoot’ it down won’t have any adverse effects. I’m unclear on whether the plan to shoot…