Wesleyan Accent
Mark Trotter ~ How to See the Future
January 17, 2015
We know that what we do here in Holy Communion is look forward to that day when life will finally be the way God wants it to be.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Branded: The Iconoclasm of Marketing
January 12, 2015
The moment you slip from branding as an evangelistic tool to branding God, your logos and graphics have slipped from tool in service to God to weapon of iconoclasm – destroying an image. Hashtag simony. We do not create Team Trinity.
We are called to receive the brand of Jesus Christ (not his motivational verse t-shirt). Christ imprints himself on our thoughts, our emotions, our decisions. By his stripes we are healed, and there is no web analytics metric to measure the bleeding back of Word Made Flesh. We are called to be made into the image of God, to be bearers of God’s image, and anything that eats away at the image of God in us is violently iconoclastic.
Talbot Davis ~ Hidden Heroes: The What Can Brown Do For You? Hero
January 10, 2015
God’s word is better delivered in obscurity than by celebrity. The greatest impact usually happens when no one notices.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Are American Clergy Suffering a Crisis of Faith?
January 8, 2015
It’s a mistake to criticize questioning by and in itself. An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith will last about as long as Farrah Fawcett hair, Hammer pants, beanie babies, MySpace, “Gangnam Style” and every other grass that withers and flower that doth fade away.
Maxie Dunnam ~ Confession
January 7, 2015
Beginning at the point of our believing that it is God’s desire to forgive, confession becomes not a morbid discipline, not a dark groveling in the mud and mire of life, not a fearful response to a wrathful, angry God who is out to get us if we don’t shape up. Rather, confession becomes an act of anticipation, a response to the unconditional call of God’s love…
Michael Smith ~ The Scent of a New Year
January 5, 2015
New is unknown, and often we are afraid of the “what if” questions in our lives. But new is happening every day.
Carolyn Moore ~ Go Tell It on the Mountain
January 3, 2015
The rules are not the relationship under this new covenant. But deeper, much deeper, is the revelation that all people matter to God.
Michelle Bauer ~ The Promise of Silence
January 1, 2015
When we refuse to be silent we are saying that we have nothing left to learn or that God has nothing left to say to us.
Maxie Dunnam ~ Leave Your Stuff Behind
December 31, 2014
By the time most of us get to be adults, we have accumulated a great deal of stuff. We’ve learned so many wrong things, stored up so much misinformation, learned to respond in so many destructive ways, adopted all the biting, snarling, snippy styles of relating, become secretive and cynical. We carry a lot of stuff around, and it burdens us down. We get all glued up in our limited world of habit. So this word of Pharaoh to Joseph’s brothers is a good word for us, particularly as we begin this new year: leave your stuff behind.
Carrie Carter ~ When You Feel Like You’re Drowning
December 29, 2014
Have you ever had a near-drowning experience?
I have. I’d guess I was between the ages of seven and nine. I don’t remember the circumstances, except that I was in over my head. Literally. What I can remember is the feeling of not being able to breathe and the panic that completely took over any ability for reasoning. I mean, everyone was told (way back in my childhood days) that once you go under for the third time, you die…