I described myself in a social media setting as as “molded by Wesleyan theology, love the Word and Spirit, believe social holiness arises from personal holiness and am called to spread scriptural holiness to the world.” I was asked what’s the...
From June 7, 2017: ( Pentecost Sunday 2022 our church heard the witness of a young family called to missions, living among orphans in a facility in Ecuador. They have been foster parents already with 30+ kids in recent years. They leave in August from their years of...
I have come to understand why Paul found a preference for ministering at the far edges of Christendom…. with an “ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that he would not be building on someone else’s foundation……”...
I must confess something……….I sometimes have to bite my tongue. Yes, actually there are things I would want to say but don’t. Sometimes about my own brothers and sisters in Christ. For too many I suspect that “missions” is a trendy,...
I love this image: A dry scrubby shrub, just standing there as if it could do anything more, upon which God bestows the Fire of His Spirit to attract the attention of a curious meandering shepherd…. to speak from its branches …to invite and ignite one who had...
I wrote the post “A Church Observed”, included below, in February 2009. What I saw then and what I see now is very exciting….people in congregations across our community doing great things! But the potential is even greater for certain functions...
