Category: Wesleyan Accent Blog
A Brand New Year: How to Leave Your Stuff Behind by Maxie Dunnam
January 1, 2020
What is some of the stuff you need to leave behind as you begin the new year? What can you drop off your weary, bending back to make your trek into the New Year a bit easier and far more meaningful?
What Change Models Look like in Your Congregation by Priscilla Hammond
December 18, 2019
If you have been a leader for very long, you have heard the question, “Why do we need to change?”…
What A Baby Uncovers: The Judgment Of Advent by Aaron Perry
December 7, 2019
“I’m pregnant!” The announcement demands a response. At times the response is easy: There are hugs and cheers, whoops, whirls,…
Leaving their Sheep to Find Jesus: When Shepherds and Angels Meet by Michelle Bauer
December 5, 2019
“The angels filled the sky saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men.” How does “Emmanuel,” God with us, bring peace into our lives? In what area of your life would you like for God’s peace to come?”
Noise Without Word: Worship in a World of Static by Justus Hunter
December 2, 2019
“Ours is an age of noise. We exchange our history for comforting lies of other gods. We exchange our worship for spectacles. We exchange true justice for parodies, imitations, mimicry. We fill our lives with noise. We silence the Word of the Lord.
But the Word comes nevertheless, not in an earthquake or fire or rushing wind, but in this man, Jesus the Christ.”
Healed with Compassion by Michelle Bauer
November 20, 2019
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. There…
Answers in the Darkness: A Prayer by Suzanne Nicholson
November 13, 2019
And so you teach me:
Certainty has become my idol.
Predictability.
Expectations met.
That looks like faith to me:
I ask, knowing that you can.
Paying Attention to Poverty by Michelle Bauer
October 28, 2019
Why might people who are poor be brokenhearted? God calls our actions and our attitudes to be right toward people with few resources.
Squeezing Jesus Out of the Church by James Petticrew
October 24, 2019
“When Christ is squeezed from the Body of Christ by our own priorities and agenda as a congregation or through our busyness as leaders or disciples, what is left is little more than a corpse masquerading as a church.”
Wait for God’s Goodness by Karen Bates
October 16, 2019
God has gently reminded me more than once that the onus for what he has promised is not on me. It is on him.