Category: Wesleyan Accent Blog
Aaron Perry ~ The Troubled Savior
May 24, 2018
“Do not let your hearts be troubled” (John 14:1-31). Imagine how the disciples are feeling in this moment. Jesus has…
Suzanne Nicholson ~ Preach What You Practice: The Importance of Expository Preaching
May 23, 2018
It has become cliché to tell people to practice what they preach—that is, to live according to their words. But…
Michelle Bauer ~ Plenty to Eat: Turning to the Source of Life
May 21, 2018
Have you ever had a day where you worried that you weren’t going to have enough? Enough love. Enough patience….
Jeff Rudy ~ What Good Is a Dead Shepherd?
May 19, 2018
The texts for this sermon come from Psalm 23 and John 10:11-18. In the middle of the Easter season every…
Aaron Perry ~ The One You Love Is Sick
May 17, 2018
My Dad was diagnosed about six weeks before we were to move. We suspected for a while that he was…
David Watson ~ Grace
May 16, 2018
Christians in the Wesleyan tradition love to talk about grace, and with good reason. God’s grace is another way of…
Carrie Carter ~ Waiting on the Holy Spirit
May 14, 2018
Waiting is not an easy task for me. I’ve been known to drive miles out of the way to avoid…
Interview ~ Roberta Mosier-Peterson: Women Called to Lead
April 2, 2018
Note from the Editor: Recently, Wesleyan Accent interviewed Rev. Dr. Roberta Mosier-Peterson, an ordained Elder in the Free Methodist Church…
Philip Tallon ~ How Artists Do Theology: The Resurrection
March 31, 2018
Piero della Francesca gets thunderingly right what so many Christians get so stunning wrong. Raised on the first day of the week – a day any faithful Jew would understand as the first day of creation – God in Christ has begun the re-creation of this world. This work of making all things new is not complete, but it has begun.
Edgar Bazan ~ Remember Me: Grace Among Criminals
March 30, 2018
To be poor in spirit means to know our place in God’s creation. It is not about lacking, but about an honest assessment of our need for God.