Tom Harding |
July 31, 2020 |
Blog Inspiration
When is the last time you heard that word? Beleaguered. Perhaps an even more important question: what in the world does it mean? I looked it up for those of us who have not heard this word in a long while. Beleaguered: suffering or being subjected to constant or...
Wayne Schmidt |
July 31, 2020 |
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My journey: lesson 3 I’m thankful for Nathaniel Moody and Tom Benjamin Rev. Nathaniel Moody is the longtime pastoral leader of Brown Hutcherson Ministries, a multicultural church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also owns funeral homes. In his service as a city...
Communication Team |
July 27, 2020 |
Blog Teaching
The faculty of the John Wesley Honors College (JWHC) at Indiana Wesleyan University join with much of the world in mourning the senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, and recognize that their recent deaths are part of a centuries-long...
Phil Stevenson |
July 27, 2020 |
Blog Teaching
Over the past weeks, I have been in dialogue with our pastoral leaders in the Pacific Southwest District (PSW) via our Zoom. The June conversations were primarily about how we, as individuals, churches and a movement, might address systemic racism and racial...
Wayne Schmidt |
July 17, 2020 |
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My journey: lesson 2 I’m thankful for Kyle Ray and Joanne Solis-Walker Kyle is lead pastor of Sent Church in the Dallas area, following nine years as lead pastor of Kentwood Community Church (KCC). Originally from Detroit, Kyle holds degrees from University of...
Branden Petersen |
July 16, 2020 |
Blog Inspiration
I was at a church planting assessment center (CPAC) in Tuscon, Arizona, in January with several church planting candidates. On the last day of the CPAC, I was sharing a devotional titled “The Five Things I’ve Learned About Church Planting” from our past four years of...
Wayne Schmidt |
July 6, 2020 |
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My journey: Introduction I penned “I’m grieving” in response to the racism and violence taking place just over a month ago. My expression of lament was neither the first nor deepest shared, but it certainly poured from my heart. I’m grateful for the continual...
David Drury |
June 30, 2020 |
Blog COVID-19 Teaching The Church & COVID-19
Many, if not all of us, have felt our worship displaced in some way. The COVID-19 crisis worldwide has caused a recalibration in our patterns of faith life that is hard to compare to any other season for the people of God. One has to go back to the Protestant...
Shirley A. Mullen |
June 27, 2020 |
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Nearly two weeks ago, I wrote a piece on the Houghton website in response to the tragic death of George Floyd asserting that “words are not enough.” Whatever emotions we felt in the face of that single event have now been intensified exponentially in the intervening...
Karen Crawford |
June 22, 2020 |
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This past week has been unlike any I have ever witnessed in American history. I witnessed the death of an African American brother whose last words were, “I can’t breathe.” Breathing is one of those abilities that God has given to us that we have taken for granted—at...
Kelly Yonce |
June 22, 2020 |
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The names Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd are fresh on our lips. A united groan quickly floods social media, but it predictably erupts into something else. Comments and opinions abound, and again we remember we are not in this together. I sat down with Pastor Darrell...
Anita Eastlack |
June 19, 2020 |
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Haga clic aquí para español This is a common question that pastors and church leaders ask, whether looking for a new model or evaluating a current one. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to making disciples. As you seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance, with...
Anita Eastlack |
June 17, 2020 |
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Click here for English Herramienta de evaluación de la iglesia “reproductora” “Nuestra oración ferviente es que cerremos la brecha del evangelio movilizando una fuerza del Reino, celebrando cada vez que un discípulo hace un discípulo y una...
Anita Eastlack |
June 17, 2020 |
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Click here for English Esta es una pregunta común que se hacen los pastores y los líderes de la iglesia, ya sea que busquen un nuevo modelo o que evalúen uno actual. No hay un enfoque único para todos sobre cómo hacer discípulos. Mientras buscas la guía del...
Jerry Pattengale |
June 16, 2020 |
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Learn more about Voices blogs Can we all get along? But, I can’t breathe, officer. Your weight is crushing my neck, but it will never suffocate my children’s dreams and the hopes of millions. Can’t you see it? They will. This is a democracy. You are a renegade...
Aaron Duvall |
June 11, 2020 |
Blog Inspiration
Chera, my wife, was glaring at me with the type of fire normally reserved for people who tell her Christmas music should wait till after Thanksgiving. “God is good,” she said. I nodded, more than slightly annoyed. “Say it,” still glaring. “God is good,” I...
Sue Johnson Rickman |
June 11, 2020 |
Blog Inspiration
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to truly appreciate all the ways a good dad made all the difference. My father grew up during the Great Depression in a Wesleyan Methodist preacher’s home, having to wear his older sister’s blouse to school and cardboard in his shoes. He...
Anita Eastlack |
June 9, 2020 |
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Haga clic aquí para español ‘Our fervent prayer is that we would close the gospel gap by mobilizing Kingdom Force, celebrating every time a disciple makes a disciple and a church multiplies itself until The Wesleyan Church has a transforming presence in every...
Anita Eastlack |
June 3, 2020 |
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Haga clic aquí para español There are so many Scriptures that have ministered to me through the pandemic. My Bible is my lifeblood in ‘normal’ life and more so in this time of uncertainty. Verses like,* “They that wait upon the Lord will renew their...
Anita Eastlack |
June 3, 2020 |
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Click here for English Hay tantas Escrituras que me han ministrado durante la pandemia. Mi Biblia es mi fuerza en la vida ‘normal’ y más aún en este tiempo de incertidumbre, versos como: ‘Los que esperan en el Señor renovarán sus fuerzas, y...
Anita Eastlack |
May 29, 2020 |
Anita Eastlack Blog CMAD
This is a common question that pastors and church leaders ask, whether looking for a new model or evaluating a current one. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to making disciples. As you seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance, with agape’ love toward the people in your...
Tanya Nace |
May 28, 2020 |
Blog Teaching
I had just finished preaching as the guest speaker at a church when a lady approached me and said, “That was amazing, you should be a pastor!” I made a joke about no church wanting to keep me around for more than a day, and the lady laughed. Deep down, I asked myself...
Kelly Yonce |
May 28, 2020 |
Blog Inspiration
Thirteen people. Nineteen if you count the kids that piled into the nursery with their juice boxes and tablets. With hushed discomfort and wide eyes, we kissed their foreheads and then tried our best to stand at least a few feet apart in the lobby while we waited for...
Ed Rotz |
May 15, 2020 |
Blog Inspiration
Eeyore is the gray, gloomy donkey filled with sawdust in Winnie the Pooh stories. He is sensitive and intelligent but quiet and downcast most of the time. He is forever losing his tail. His favorite food is thistles, and his go-to phrase is, “Why bother?” Eeyore...
