Wesleyan Accent
Andy Stoddard ~ Be Careful Little Tongue What You Say
January 15, 2017
“For race, should I check Hispanic?”
Everything That Is Hurt: St Symeon
January 11, 2017
And everything that is hurt, everything
That seemed to us dark, harsh, shameful,
Maimed, ugly, irreparably damaged
Is in Him transformed.
James Petticrew ~ Kodak, Hirsch, and the Future of the Church
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.
Unknown Gods
January 9, 2017
The question remains. Do we really know the High God? How would our lives change if we really understood the fact that the God made real in Jesus Christ – the God of the world – loves each tribe and nation equally? How would that understanding change how we looked at other tribes and clans – even in our own communities? How would we act and relate to others?
Carolyn Moore ~ How to Pray When Your Prayer Life Is on the Rocks
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.
And Now We Begin
January 4, 2017
Now that we’ve celebrated God’s decision to put on flesh and bone and move into the neighborhood, we’re left with the question, what do we do now?
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.
Jorge Acevedo ~ A Blue Christmas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
December 19, 2016
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” We all have something in each list. Tonight, I want to remind you that life is a complex mixture of all three kinds of experiences…good to celebrate, bad to grieve, and ugly to heal.
The Word Became Flesh
The word became flesh and lived among us.