Iglesia Evangélica Metodista Unida del Ecuador

Iglesia Evangélica Metodista Unida del Ecuador

official website Members 0 K+ Congregations 0 + The Methodist presence in Ecuador is a story of perseverance and transformation. Founded in 1964 through the work of missionaries from the United States, the Iglesia Evangélica Metodista Unida del Ecuador has grown into a vibrant, autonomous body. Today, under the leadership of Bishop Silvio Cevallos, the IEMUE consists of approximately 1,500 members

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Are You Asking The Right Question?

I like to do projects around the house and the garage. It may be a small chore like changing a light fixture or a large job repairing the car. I like to be part of the solution. Over the years I have learned that one key to doing the job well is having the right tool for the job. You

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Will You Finish Well? | Part III

So far in this series, I have shared how personal holiness and surrender have kept me spiritually alive throughout my ministry. Let me now make my case and offer specific notions which I pray might have at least some hints of wisdom.  Spiritual, emotional, and relational growth takes time and energy. It requires discipline. It diverts us from “pastoral duties”

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Iglesia Evangélica Metodista de Costa Rica

official website Members 0 K+ Congregations 0 + The Iglesia Evangélica Metodista de Costa Rica is a cornerstone of the nation’s Protestant history. Founded in 1917 by missionaries who arrived on horseback from Panama, the church grew out of the work of Methodist missionaries from the United States and has been an autonomous church since 1973. Today, it is a

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Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia

official website Members 0 K+ Congregations 0 + The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia was officially formed in Melbourne in 1946 after a local leader, Kingsley Ridgway, met an American serviceman and felt a call to bring the Wesleyan holiness tradition to the Australian people. The WMCA is an autonomous church that grew out of the Methodist Holiness movement and is

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David Juliano Solvitur Ambulando It Is Solved by Walking

Solvitur Ambulando: It Is Solved By Walking

I’m not what you’d call an outdoorsy person. In fact, the only exercise I typically get is jumping to conclusions. So when I found myself at the bottom of a very steep hill in the Peak District of Derbyshire, legs already burning, lungs already protesting, I had a moment of serious doubt about my life choices. But I’m getting ahead

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Iglesia Colombiana Metodista

Iglesia Colombiana Metodista

official website Members 0 K+ Congregations 0 + The Methodist Church in Columbia is a relatively young but deeply impactful member of our family. While Methodism in Colombia dates back several decades, the church has flourished in recent years, even amidst the country’s complex social and political history. Today, the ICM is a diverse community of approximately 2,000 members across

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Foundations Of Disciple-Making: Friendship

In March of 2020, as many of us were coming to terms with the COVID-19 pandemic, I became close friends with a neighbor. Our kids are close in age, and we defiantly kept a similar “open-door policy” with our neighbors and their kids in a season when many were understandably afraid of contagion (or peer-judgment). Because of our likeminded attitude

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Will You Finish Well? | Part II

In my last article, I took the long way around to getting to where I really want to be in my sharing with you. Often the Holy Spirit speaks to us in some very personal way to lift us out of discouragement – but not only so, calls us to make an on-course adjustment in our pattern of life and

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Iglesia Metodista de Chile

official website Members 0 K+ Congregations 0 + Founded by missionaries from the United States, the Iglesia Metodista de Chile became autonomous in 1969. Today, it consists of 9,882 members across 90 congregations. This church has a powerful legacy of “integral mission,” maintaining a strong focus on education, social justice, and service. Notably, a vibrant Pentecostal movement grew out of

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Remembering Katrina by Michael Smith

It was dark as I gathered around a battery-operated radio with a mother and her two children. We were silent as we strained to listen to the reports. We heard the word “levy,” but I didn’t fully understand what that meant at the time. Sections of the city were being listed, and I didn’t understand what that meant either until

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

Every year until the child participates in confirmation, in the days leading up to the child’s baptismal anniversary I send a letter marking the occasion. I also include an age-appropriate gift, like a children’s book. I have found that this is a good way to keep before the family and the child the meaning of baptism and to remind the

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Night Moves by Mark Trotter

When I came back to this story of Jacob wrestling the stranger at the River Jabbok, I saw something that I had never noticed before. That is, Jacob is like Prometheus, in the Greek myth. Prometheus stole the fire from heaven and brought it down to human beings so that we could be like gods.

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Right Privilege by Tom Fuerst

But this isn’t just something Christ did that was different than how God had previously revealed himself. Rather, God, from the beginning, has been challenging our understandings of the way the world is.

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Happiness: Cause And Effect by Andy Stoddard

How do you live a happy life?  For you, what would result in happiness? We may have a list.  If I have this.  Or if I have that.  If I’m able to accomplish this.  Or if this happens at work, or at home, or in my own life, then I’ll be happy.  We’ve probably all got our list of what

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On The Up And Up: The Right Stuff by Talbot Davis

The “I” pronoun has disappeared in favor of “us” and “we.” Instead of asserting his rights – rights he was born into and rights he earned – the disappearing “I” pronoun shows he is instead relinquishing them. A psalm that could be about his personal religion instead becomes a song about our collective faith.

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A Mighty God for Miserable Times by Kelcy Steele

It is the Prophet Isaiah who stood in the gap for 40 years declaring to a people that we might be in some miserable times but God is still mighty.

It’s hard sometimes to tell people who are dealing with hell, haters, and hypocrites that greater is coming. It’s hard sometimes to tell people who are dealing with problems, pains,

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On The Up And Up: Traveler’s Advisory by Talbot Davis

Hear this: you will sprain your ankle. You will have difficulties. You will have trauma. But what Psalm 121 promises is that as you anchor yourself, not to your truth but to his, as you are not true to yourself but you are true to God, none of the bad things that happen to you has separating power between you

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The Young Adult Crisis by Cole Bodkin

Both Wesley and Whitfield were tremendous preachers, who were fully capable of gathering great crowds. Many came to faith as a result of their preaching. Wesley, however, knew that consistent and intentional discipleship was essential if the Wesleyan movement were to survive. Whitfield neglected this, and as a result his people were like “a rope of sand.”

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