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Suicide in America
An OKWU professor offers his thoughts on why suicide rates in America continue to climb.
Come fill me again
I know spending time with God, friends and family, and writing fill me up. I know I have sacrificed what is fueling for what is immediate and/or acceptable.
Bearing witness
As I bear witness, I have hope that I can make a difference in the world.
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Suicide in America
An OKWU professor offers his thoughts on why suicide rates in America continue to climb.
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Come fill me again
I know spending time with God, friends and family, and writing fill me up. I know I have sacrificed what is fueling for what is immediate and/or acceptable.
read more
Thrive in 5: Relational Attunement
Neuroscientists affirm that we are “wired for connection” from birth. Infant brains develop best when caretakers are in sync—attuned—with babies’ physical, emotional, and relational needs. Obviously, no caretaker is in sync 100 percent of the time; caregivers provide...
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Bearing witness
As I bear witness, I have hope that I can make a difference in the world.
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Thrive in 5: Use Your Brain the Way God Intended
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” --Galileo Maintaining intellectual health is often a neglected part of pastoral well-being. Yet, Jesus included loving God...
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We all bow
I have noticed how easy it is in my life to remove God from his place while replacing him with other things.
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Did you expect your call to include power and authority?
I rarely think of the power or authority I have been given unless someone points it out. Rather, I am called to be a servant who delights in serving Jesus wherever he places me.
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“Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.” — John Wesley
Asbury Graduate Spotlight: Seeds of Holiness
Light energy, water, chloroplasts, and time – these are the inner workings of cells that cause most plant life to grow, from the grass in North American backyards to the amazing rainforests of the Amazon. So, too, are there inner workings of a call to ministry; a...
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The emperor moth
When we are faced with difficult situations is our response an attempt to shortcut the God-ordained pressure of the circumstance?
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Thrive In 5: Emotional
How do you feel about the person you are with when you are all alone? This is when your capacity for self-loathing or self-liking reveals itself. The odds are good that you may experience either attitude about your “self” at one time or another. As a pastor, how you...
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God knows what he’s doing: Abby Powell
Abby Powell realized she wasn’t the typical Oklahoma Wesleyan student one day in an intercultural studies class, when asked to fill out a 10-question quiz about emotional “baggage” she carried. Each question answered “yes” indicated some wound or negative experience...
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The Burden of Wealth
Ask God to direct you to someone you may help financially.
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Dr. Marcus Dean: No ivory tower
Whether in an office at Houghton College or a board room at Fillmore Wesleyan Church, Dr. Marcus Dean lives a life in service to the local church. Dr. Marcus Dean’s life has been spent in two worlds that don’t always play nicely with one another – the academy and the...
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