Gabriela Garver |
July 24, 2018 |
Blog
Ask anyone in Harrington, Delaware, where the Wesleyan church is, and they’ll point you to the place where cars overflow the parking lot and line the streets any Sunday. Harrington is a town of 3,300 people, and about one in five call Calvary Wesleyan Church their...
Jessica White |
July 23, 2018 |
Blog
People in helping professions are often surrounded by others, but when healthy friendships are not fostered, it can be easy to get caught in a trap of isolation. Co-Director of Worship Arts at College Wesleyan, Jordan Rife sees fostering healthy friendships as a great...
Kim Gladden |
July 19, 2018 |
Discipleship
Multiplying Discipleship Is your desire to have multiplying discipleship? Join the Multiplying Discipleship Webinar with Jon Wiest – Multiplication Pastor at Trinity Church Indianapolis – Thursday, July 19th, at Noon (EST). Posted by The Wesleyan Church on...
Jessica White |
July 17, 2018 |
Blog
The approach to formation of clergy is changing for the Religion Division of Southern Wesleyan University (SWU) as they study and innovate ministerial programs. Dr. Michael Tapper, chair of the Religion Division, shared how SWU is working toward preparing pastors for...
Matthew Tietje |
July 16, 2018 |
Blog
There are people you encounter in life whose presence you just want to be in. They’re people who are excited, passionate and informed and they want you to jump in and be excited too. Keith Drury and Robert Black are these kinds of people. I recently had the...
Wayne Schmidt |
July 16, 2018 |
Multiplication Voices Wayne Schmidt
I’m energized by the action-oriented conversations about church multiplication taking place throughout The Wesleyan Church! Churches of various sizes, locations and histories are engaging–and there is a question that is often being asked: Are we healthy...
Jessica White |
July 13, 2018 |
Blog
About two years ago, Southside Fellowship Church in Owensboro, Kentucky, started to explore the idea of doing church differently. The call to examine the structure of the church came from their pastor, Rev. John Fowler, who had experienced a personal revival in his...
Tim Purcell |
July 12, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog
I’ve been thinking lately about the connection between opportunity and obstacles. Years ago I read that the Chinese word for “crisis” is composed of two characters, one meaning “danger” and the other meaning “opportunity.” Sounds about right. It seems like anytime you...
Ron McClung |
July 11, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog
I read recently about a study that showed 71 percent of Americans go to bed with their smartphone and 25 percent admitted to falling asleep at least once with the phone still in their hands. Researchers asked more than 90,000 participants to wear a wrist-work...
Ed Love |
June 29, 2018 |
Blog Discipleship Multiplication
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age (Matthew 28:19-20)....
Jeffrey D. Miller |
June 28, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog Voices
Many Christians, certainly most egalitarians, are familiar with Ephesians 5:21, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” (NIV). But as well-known as this passage is, it’s still common to wonder what mutual submission actually looks like in practice. Here’s...
Mike Colaw |
June 27, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog Voices
“Pastor Mike … ” He paused for a moment with tears welling up. “I grew up in the church and lately I am having a hard time believing that all this could be true. Don’t hear me wrong, I want to believe! I just can’t. It all seems too good to be true. I feel like I am...
Brandon Hempel |
June 27, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog Voices
I’ve learned in my journey with God that every single time I say no to something that would interfere with what I believe God’s call in my life is, he honors that “no” with taking care of my needs. I want to share about my most recent ministry transition from...
Katie Long |
June 26, 2018 |
Blog
To live unmasked is to live a life natural to who you are, giving yourself permission to be who God created you to be. Defeating the fear of disappointing others. Defeating the unreality of perfection. Choosing to live a real life in vulnerability and authenticity...
General Superintendent's Office |
June 21, 2018 |
Featured Blog Voices Wayne Schmidt
Media around the world have been focused on the treatment undocumented immigrant families have received recently in the United States. Images of children separated from their parents have flooded the airwaves and social media. Voices crying out for justice and action...
Kim Gladden |
June 21, 2018 |
Discipleship
Chris Atkins |
June 20, 2018 |
Blog Thriving Clergy
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies” (the Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20). God has created human...
Joshua McNall |
June 15, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog
Several years ago, there was a mediocre movie made by M. Night Shyamalan, called The Happening. It was a horror-thriller sort of film, involving hundreds of senseless murders. Yet the twist in The Happening was that the linked-together killings were committed not by a...
Donna Whitten |
June 14, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog
I opened the door to a familiar place. Although it’s dark, I know it so well I make my way to the windows instinctively. Pulling back the curtains, the sun streams into the room highlighting a million dancing dust particles taking flight. I grab the sheets covering...
Dr. Virginia Holeman |
June 6, 2018 |
Thriving Clergy
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...
Beth Churchill |
May 31, 2018 |
Featured Blog Voices
Have you ever felt paralyzed by the injustice of this world? I have. There are days when I just want to stand up and scream with the inequality all around me. As I listen to people sharing their struggles, I often feel powerless to make a difference. It sometimes...
Dave Higle |
May 23, 2018 |
Blog Thriving Clergy
“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...
Kim Gladden |
May 17, 2018 |
Discipleship
Shalom Liddick |
May 16, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog
Often, when I hear God, I look at my life and allow his Holy Spirit to search me, then bring confession and repentance to him. I have to say lately, God has been speaking to me on the issue of worship. And I know why. My people, he says, have made me different from I...
