Category: Wesleyan Accent
It’s the Same Guy: The Hidden Fulfillment by Matt Hook
April 29, 2017
This weekend’s sermon comes from Dr. Matt Hook.
Tara Beth Leach ~ My Call to Senior Pastoral Ministry
April 26, 2017
Since I can remember, I’ve had a pastor’s heart. Often times when I hear someone talk badly about the Church, I get offended in the way a sibling gets offended when someone is talking about her sister—“Hey, don’t talk about my sister like that!” I ache to see the Church live into the fullness of holiness in which she has been called. I long to see the Church lean into the power of the Spirit as she joins God on mission in this world.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Your (Global) Teenager
April 24, 2017
You could put conservative Christian parents and conservative Muslim parents in the same room with coffee and pastries and they would commiserate about the challenges of attempting to instill religious values in their kids in an age of globalization, when many influences far outside their zip code influence their children as much as – or more than – locality does. They have a shared enemy: Western secularization. The religions are not the same, but the frustration is.
Your Future Is in Your Feet! by Kelcy Steele
April 22, 2017
Don’t ask God to guide your footsteps if you’re not willing to move your feet.
Jerry Walls ~ Dennis F. Kinlaw: Naming and Showing that Mysterious Quality
April 20, 2017
Unfortunately, the word holiness conjures up for many people images of repressive legalism, dour dogma, and joyless judgmentalism. Much of the holiness movement seems to have forgotten that John Wesley constantly insisted that holiness and happiness are inseparable. Indeed, one Wesley’s most memorable descriptions of God was “the fountain of happiness, sufficient for all the souls he has made.”
Dennis Kinlaw reminded you of that fountain when you talked to him.
Carolyn Moore ~ Introversion in the Kingdom of God
April 19, 2017
Kingdom solitude is not inward-focused or an end in itself; it is a God-focused state that empowers introverts ultimately to be more lovingly outward-focused at the appropriate times.
Wesleyan Accent ~ Interview: What I’ve Learned Working with Refugees and Immigrants
April 17, 2017
Immigration is not the problem. Global instability is the problem. These teens would never have left their families, their homes or their countries if they did not have to leave to survive or to provide.
Philip Tallon ~ How Artists Do Theology: The Resurrection
April 13, 2017
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.
Elizabeth Moyer ~ Anxiety in Worship
April 12, 2017
Someone living with an anxiety disorder (or any medical condition) that makes being in loud, dark areas or separated from family unendurable does not feel welcomed. This is not a commentary on the theology or religiosity of the “turn up the volume and dim the lights, no children allowed” movement. The concern here is how the Body of Christ meets those who would dare join in for worship.
Tammie Grimm ~ The Celtic Cross
April 11, 2017
Always, the Celtic knots and strands twist and braid a pattern that is beautiful and elegant, at once demonstrating the complexity of God’s creativity and the simplicity or unity that marks all things as God’s creation.