Joshua McNall |
December 10, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs DANCING AND WEEPING > GNASHING AND TWEETING What separates prophetic boldness from dogmatic shrillness? In my first post, I suggested that evangelical Christians have a problem that mirrors issues in the broader culture. In some...
Ron McClung |
December 7, 2018 |
Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs Live a holy life? In the twenty-first century? Are you kidding?Yet, one New Testament writer said, “Without holiness no one will see the Lord” (Heb. 12:14).We can readily see that God expected this from the ancient Israelites, as...
Zach Derr |
December 3, 2018 |
Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs If you’ve ever toured historic buildings or art museums then you’ve likely seen the sign: NO PHOTOS! That sign is just begging to be broken. How many of us can say we’ve never snuck our phones out to take a picture while the sign said...
Wayne Schmidt |
December 3, 2018 |
Blog Featured News News Teaching Wayne Schmidt
Wesleyan leaders are pursuing creative missional work with the purpose of reaching those who are missing from Christ and his church. More and more are taking discipleship and multiplication seriously. New leaders, lay and clergy, have felt called to initiate and guide...
Phil Stevenson |
November 29, 2018 |
Blog Teaching
Nehemiah is a favorite historical leader. He mobilized a discouraged and disappointed people to achieve a perceived impossible goal. The perceived impossibility was the rebuilding of the wall that surrounded the city of Jerusalem. The wall lay in ruins. And there was...
Dr. Virginia Holeman |
November 27, 2018 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5 Thriving Clergy
If you have read A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh, are you an Eeyore or a Tigger? “Eeyores” are your typical pessimists. Life is one disappointment after another. Positive things are never as good as imagined. Neutral things are worse than expected. Negative things are...
Joshua McNall |
November 20, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs “I can testify about them,” wrote the apostle Paul regarding much of Christian Twitter, “that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge” (Rom 10:2). While I have admittedly mangled the techno-context of Paul’s...
Sarah Dougan |
November 19, 2018 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development
La imagen en Apocalipsis 7: 9 de una gran multitud de todas las naciones, tribus y personas inspira la pasión del reverendo Rodrigo Azofeifa por la adoración inclusiva. Azofeifa es un padre, esposo, maestro y pastor de Real Connection Church, una iglesia wesleyana...
Sarah Dougan |
November 19, 2018 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development
The image in Revelation 7:9 of a great multitude from every nation, tribe and people inspires Rev. Rodrigo Azofeifa’s passion for inclusive worship. Azofeifa is a father, husband, teacher and head pastor at Real Connection Church, a Wesleyan church formed from two...
Kim Gladden |
November 15, 2018 |
Discipleship
Baptism: A Mark of Discipleship Webinar In the early days of the church baptism was a declaration that a believer was identifying themselves with a group of despised people called Christians. But what place does baptism hold in our modern discipleship process? Posted...
Communication Team |
November 15, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog Featured News News Wayne Schmidt
Download this video: https://resources.wesleyan.org/thanksgiving18 Join the Mission House Army of Love: https://wesleyan.life/mission-house Find your place in the messy, beautiful MOSAIC: https://wesleyan.life/mosaic Become a storyteller:...
Steve Dunmire |
November 12, 2018 |
Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs Eugene H. Peterson died October 23, 2018, at age 85. While he is best known for The Message, he was also a prolific author on Christian spiritual formation and pastoral work. I have read 26 books by Peterson, and his writings have...
Olivia Eckart |
November 8, 2018 |
Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs It wasn’t when I stood on Mount Nebo, where Moses stood to look at the Promised Land, that the Bible came alive for me. From Dan to Gilead, we could see the vast plains, the Dead Sea, the opportunities for vegetation and surrounding...
Andrea Summers |
October 31, 2018 |
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I have a friend who, somewhat unexpectedly, found herself as the senior pastor of a large, growing church. During her first year, having never been a lead pastor before, she knew she needed help navigating the exciting (and sometimes not so exciting) challenges of...
David B. Lewis |
October 31, 2018 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5 Thriving Clergy
Everyone who is interested in living a healthy lifestyle requires physical activity. Regular exercise should include three basic categories: cardio, resistance (weight training) and flexibility. When these activities are implemented into a regular lifestyle routine...
Ed Rotz |
October 31, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog
I’m beginning to wonder if I have adult onset of ADD — attention deficit disorder. My vulnerability to distraction seems to increase substantially. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been working on the laptop and need to find a document or double check an...
Katie Long |
October 29, 2018 |
Blog Resources WPH
The Kingdom Revealed: A Devotional Study on the Sermon on the Mount is focused on the message Jesus taught recorded in Matthew 5–7; the kingdom is not something far off, but a depiction of the Christian life — a life of holiness — in the present. “No matter how long...
Linda Gist |
October 18, 2018 |
Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5 Thriving Clergy
Thrive in 5 – Spiritual Christianity strongly affirms the glorious truth that the Christian God is a triune God. What we believe about this triune God will fundamentally affect how we relate to him and how we live out our Christian lives. Linda Gist (see...
Kim Gladden |
October 11, 2018 |
Discipleship
Missional Discipleship with Matt LeRoy Let's talk about how discipleship, mission, and community connection with Love Chapel Hill's Matt LeRoy. Posted by The Wesleyan Church on Friday, October 12,...
Anita Eastlack |
October 10, 2018 |
Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs When I began to travel for my current job, I preferred to cocoon on the plane. I used the time to catch up on emails and sleep. It didn’t take long for me to sense the Holy Spirit’s conviction, as the Lord was nudging me out of my...
Anita Eastlack |
October 10, 2018 |
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When I began to travel for my current job, I preferred to cocoon on the plane. I used the time to catch up on emails and sleep. It didn’t take long for me to sense the Holy Spirit’s conviction, as the Lord was nudging me out of my cocoon. I must live as a sent one....
Reid Hettich |
September 27, 2018 |
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When God called me to lead a church plant in a poverty stricken, urban part of our community, I was eager to be a part of an intentionally multiethnic church. But I didn’t realize the extent of the ethnic diversity in our city: about 180 different languages spoken in...
Dan Todd |
September 27, 2018 |
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One of my oldest friends, Mike, recently lost his 25-year-old son. Mike was my very first best friend. We went to swimming lessons together, played superheroes together, went to “Herbie the Love Bug” movies together and for much of our young lives went to church...
Kim Gladden |
September 13, 2018 |
Discipleship
Lifelong Discipleship Webinar What does it look like to have lifelong discipleship? Join us here on Facebook Live as we talk about it with Megan Cusumano, Assistant Pastor at North Park Wesleyan Church and Eric Mills, National Pastoral Director of Orphan Sunday &...