Wesleyan Accent Archive | World Methodist Evangelism

Marriage, Human Sexuality, and the Body: From the Beginning It Was Not So by Timothy Tennent

Timothy Tennent October 22, 2015

For example, we often describe a “sacrament” as an outward sign of an inward and spiritual grace, but then we limit ourselves by thinking of sacraments only in terms of the two which Christ established: baptism and the Eucharist. Wesley, on the other hand, prodded us to think more deeply and expansively about all the means of grace which, for

All Saints’ and Mentoring: A Personal Reflection by Michael Smith

Michael Smith October 21, 2015

You may never know the great power that a simple word of love can have on a person, but I encourage you to share love with others. It will never leave my memory. Though a lot of time has passed through the years, the memory of a mentor’s words at a critical time in my life will never fade.

If You’re Wanting More from Your Devotionals, Try This by Tom Fuerst

Tom Fuerst October 19, 2015

For many of us, when we read the Bible, we read it from the perspective of people who need encouragement, therapy, challenge, hope, or even love. These are all good things that we do, indeed, need. But usually these needs arise from a larger situation that involves someone or something hurting us. For example, we need encouragement because a boss

A More Excellent Way by Jeff Rudy

Jeff Rudy October 17, 2015

The heartbeat of the Church is Christ. We’re only here because of him; because of his love. Christ is the reason we are. Christ is all our reasons.

Soul Seasons by Carrie Carter

Carrie Carter October 15, 2015

“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.” – Ecclesiastes 3:1 In case you didn’t know it, fall has arrived. The earth tilts on its axis and the days shorten, the air grows crisp, leaves change from green to varying hues of red, orange, and yellow, and combines roar through fields of golden-brown corn, stirring

Infant Baptism and Beyond: A Systematic Approach (Part III) by Ken Loyer

Ken Loyer October 14, 2015

“I hope you’ll always remember that God loves you so much—more than I can even say—and has a wonderful plan for your life. We at the Church are here to help you discover the special life that God made you to live.”

I’m a PK: A Preacher’s Kid by Justus Hunter

Justus Hunter October 12, 2015

We carry our great preachers around in the corners of our soul. They wait there to surprise us. They wait there to revive us.

Marriage, Human Sexuality, and the Body: Let’s Go Back to the Beginning by Timothy Tennent

Timothy Tennent October 7, 2015

Discussions about marriage, divorce and issues of human sexuality are not new. What is new is our unpreparedness for the current questions being asked.

The Curse of Wisdom by Tom Fuerst

Tom Fuerst October 5, 2015

Wisdom is not just an intelligence bomb that God drops on us one day when we get our first gray hair. It’s not an intellectual realization that hits us one day simply because we’re aged. We’ve all known older folks who are foolish. No, wisdom has less to do with gray hair and more to do with the experience of

The Healer: Healing The Spirit And Flesh In The Gospel Of Mark by Andy Stoddard

Andy Stoddard September 30, 2015

You can look at some of the big picture issues of location and context and fear within Mark 5:1-19. Today I want to look at little bit a the people involved in this story: Jesus Heals the Gerasene Demoniac They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had stepped out

Introversion In The Kingdom Of God by Carolyn Moore

Carolyn Moore April 19, 2017

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. – Psalm 139:13-14 A couple of caution signs: Introversion and extroversion are too easily over-simplified. Lumping people exclusively into one or the other camp is to miss all the nuances

What I’ve Learned Working with Refugees and Immigrants: Interview with Josh White

Josh White April 17, 2017

A Note From The Editor: Recently Wesleyan Accent was able to chat with Youth Specialist Josh White about his role in caring for unaccompanied alien children who arrive in the United States. He also operates EQ Roasters, a small fair-trade coffee roasting enterprise aimed at encouraging economic stability in nations from which many unaccompanied minors come. An avid musician, his

How Artists Do Theology: The Resurrection by Philip Tallon

Philip Tallon 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

Anxiety In Worship by Elizabeth Moyer

Elizabeth Moyer 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

The Celtic Cross by Tammie Grimm

Tammie Grimm April 11, 2017

With its distinctive orb that surrounds the intersecting arms that form the right angles of the Latin cross, most of us recognize the shape and design of the traditional Celtic cross. No matter our level of familiarity with the prayers, traditions and other customs of the medieval Celtic Christians, the iconic artwork of the cross is no ancient relic relegated

Jesus Weeps, Our Tears to See by Jeff Rudy

Jeff Rudy April 6, 2017

These hymns, like the psalms, come from or speak to different experiences – some quite specific, others more general – and they express a wide variety of feelings toward God, ranging from thanksgiving and adoration to supplication to bitter grief. The hymn I came upon that had a reference to Jesus weeping was under the heading of “For a Child

Steps For Small Church Revitalization by Elizabeth Glass Turner

elizabeth.turner April 5, 2017

Most churches aren’t big. Most churches say they want to grow. Many pastors hope to serve at big or growing churches. Most pastors won’t. It’s simply a matter of numbers in the United States: there aren’t that many megachurches. If you happen to be the pastor of one, you can sell a lot of books to pastors who want to

On the Road: Witness in Central Asia by Kim Reisman

Kim Reisman April 5, 2017

Seminar participants are so committed to faith and evangelism. If you want to be Christian here you have to be incredibly committed.

The Work Of Our Hands: Celtic Christianity & The Way Of Wesley by Tammie Grimm

Tammie Grimm April 3, 2017

I am “old school.” I freely admit it. When it comes to writing, whether it be drafting a letter or revising a doctoral thesis (and I have done both in the last year) I would rather sit down with paper and pencil than a laptop or tablet. Turns out, studies indicate, I am not alone; there is something about the mind-body

What If I Get Nothing Out of Lent? by Jeff Rudy

Jeff Rudy March 30, 2017

And so, among other things I’m giving up for Lent, I’m trying to give up the search to find some other hidden meaning. Perhaps I won’t get anything out of it. We don’t enter into the Lenten season practicing disciplines in order to achieve a particular return. It’s not an investment. Fasting and praying are not disciplines that we engage

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