Category: Wesleyan Accent
Tammie Grimm ~ Celtic Christianity and the Coloring Craze
January 30, 2017
Yet, whether we like it or not, a sense of alienation begins to creep into our lives, disconnecting us from a life of intentionality, a life of integration, a life of wholeness that is a hallmark of Celtic Christianity.
Celtic Christianity, through its prayers and practices, grounds participants in the fundamentals of who we are as human beings – creatures of God, our lives connected to the earth and related to the world – even the world beyond our tangible senses.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Is Sin Necessary to Know Jesus? Why It Matters
January 26, 2017
It’s dangerous to ground our whole understanding of the second person of the Trinity in a scenario in which the only way we know him truly depends on human sin, as if fallenness is necessary in order to know the Word. Because of fallenness, we know the Word as Jesus Christ, the Word Made Flesh. But to suggest the only possible universe in which we could truly know God is one that has the crucifixion means that God in some way ordained human sinfulness so that we could know him.
Carolyn Moore ~ Suicide and the Enemy of Our Souls
January 25, 2017
Some years ago, another friend lost her sister to suicide. She wrote to ask, “Do you think it is possible that the enemy has kept me down and in such a battle for the last year or two so he could keep me from being there for my sister?”
This is how I answered that question.
Jean Watson ~ All That He Says I Am
January 18, 2017
Singer, violinist, evangelist and Order of the Flame 2016 speaker Jean Watson reflects on how we see ourselves.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Testify: Many Voices, One Song
January 16, 2017
“The time is always ripe to do right.”
Andy Stoddard ~ Be Careful Little Tongue What You Say
January 15, 2017
“For race, should I check Hispanic?”
James Petticrew ~ Kodak, Hirsch, and the Future of the Church
January 11, 2017
I doubt there is a more used and less understood word in the contemporary church than “missional.” Missional is not about being better at being Kodak in a digital photograph world.
Carolyn Moore ~ How to Pray When Your Prayer Life Is on the Rocks
January 9, 2017
In seasons when my faith has faltered, I can invariably point to a fumbled prayer life. Prayer empowers and gives vision; the lack of it weakens trust and causes me to wander.
Carolyn Moore ~ Why Christmas Is Worth It
December 24, 2016
To enter into the heart of Jesus is to submit to hidden, unglamorous work.
Wesleyan Accent ~ Why Deny the Obvious Child?
December 22, 2016
There is a robust history of artistic license when it comes to portrayals of Christ. On the one hand, Jesus Christ was a Middle Eastern man whose existence is verified by historians. On the other hand, Christians affirm that Jesus was also fully divine, the Son of God. Because of the truth that God took on human flesh to enter into our existence, sometimes artists dwell in that larger thought, portraying Jesus as an African man, or a Japanese fisherman, or as a blond-haired, blue-eyed European. Other times, artists have attempted to portray the physical specificity of the Messiah who was born in Bethlehem to poor Jewish parents 2,000 years ago.