The Promise of Righteousness by Elizabeth Glass Turner

July 28, 2016

Perhaps because of it’s very appearance and sound, there’s a halt, a slamming of the brakes. “Righteousness” begins visually and aurally, in English, with “right.” To say definitively that you’re immediately “right” in a pluralistic culture is a non-starter.

Interview: A Social Worker Goes to Haiti

July 27, 2016

I think the answer is more simple than people would imagine – I simply said yes to God.

The Word And The Spirit by Andrew Thompson

July 25, 2016

“Whate’er his Spirit speaks in me, must with the written Word agree.” – Charles Wesley Many of the more contentious…

Recentering by Carrie Carter

July 18, 2016

The other day I was using Google maps and realized that when I dragged the map ahead on my route,…

Why Evangelism and Discipleship Should Never Be Separated by Kim Reisman

July 13, 2016

So it is with evangelism and discipleship. If we are engaged in both well, they become a seamless movement and we cross the threshold between one and the other without even realizing.

My Prayer by Linda White

July 11, 2016

Father, you have made all in your image…you love all. Help me to love all, even in the midst of such fear, hatred and strife, may I reflect you and your love. May I be a beacon of hope and life in a world spinning out of control with chaos.

Prayer, Protest & Protection: The Grace of a Lost Art by Kelcy Steele

July 8, 2016

Much of the time, officers do exactly what they are supposed to do, and for this we can be grateful.
But they are armed. And the weapons they carry can easily kill people. This means that police officers must be trained to be extraordinarily disciplined in their perceptions of situations and people, and extraordinarily restrained in their use of deadly force. Otherwise the power they have to protect the innocent becomes a power to destroy the innocent.

Four Principles For A Healthier Short-Term Mission Experience by Carolyn Moore

July 7, 2016

I am writing this while “on mission with Jesus in Ecuador,”* serving together with seventeen genuinely kind and faithful people…

American Freedom or Christian Freedom?

July 4, 2016

For Christians, all causes must be submitted to Christ, viewed through Christ, sanctified to be Christlike. I cannot love my cause more than my Christ. I cannot define myself more by my cause than my Christ. I cannot give more for my cause than I give my Christ.

The (Secret) Great Commission by Kim Reisman

What would it look like to follow the Great Commission without freedom?

As those of us in the United States celebrate Independence Day today, it may be difficult to imagine that. How would we “go and make disciples” if our government made it illegal?

Would we disobey? Go in secret?

Those are questions facing our brothers and sisters in the Wesleyan Methodist family in Russia.