Category: Wesleyan Accent Blog
Build No Matter Where You Are by Matt Hook
February 17, 2018
At the end of the day, it’s not just about spectating; at the end of the day, it’s not just about building a monument. At the end of the day, it’s about pursuing God with our whole heart.
Justus Hunter ~ Lent: There Is a River and There Is a City
February 15, 2018
Lent is a season of clarity. We already sit among the ashes. We already sit in cities made in our own image.
Carolyn Moore ~ From Dust and Ashes to the Image of God
February 14, 2018
We are both sinners and saints, dust and treasure, limited but with tremendous potential, fallen but loved.
Andy Stoddard ~ To Observe a Holy Lent
February 12, 2018
We fast to clear away the noise and the pain and the hurt. We fast to tune our hearts to his grace. We fast, even in the midst of our pain and brokenness, not to be torn down.
No, we fast to be built up. To be reminded of what matters and where life is found. We fast so that our ears can properly hear that voice of God, calling out to us.
Jennifer Moxley ~ What to Do With #metoo
February 8, 2018
As the Church, it would be foolish to believe we have not participated or contributed in some way. We can confess the ways we have corporately and personally upheld this power dynamic, repent and seek to turn it upside down.
Carrie Carter ~ Living Alive
February 5, 2018
Life, as it should be lived, is far more than a bucket list, more than another experience to cross off.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ When Curiosity is Christ-Like
February 1, 2018
Curiosity about others, curiosity about their lives, opens us up to opportunities to acknowledge and reflect their value: they are worth noticing. In a distracted world, this is explosively powerful.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Why Congregations Must Embrace Awkwardness
January 31, 2018
As a friend put it recently, people are uncomfortable with their lack of control; if Bad Thing A can happen to you, then maybe it could happen to me – so let’s find something you did that caused it. That way, I feel safe again.