Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Hope for Transformation
It is not only a deliverance from doubts and fears, but from sin; from all inward as well as outward sin; from evil desires and evil tempers, as well as from evil words and works. Yea, and it is not only a negative blessing, a deliverance from all evil dispositions implied in that expression, “I…
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Like a Plant…
“The spiritual life is like a plant growing in a garden” – Dr. Susan Muto I’m not much of a gardener myself. My daughter wanted a garden when she was about eight years old. She wanted to use her birthday money to purchase seeds. So, as any good parents would do, we let her purchase…
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Superchic[k] Signing
My daughter really like Superchic[k]. We went to the Prolife Music Festival in Warsaw, Indiana. Here is the lead singer signing an autograph for my daughter while holding her dog! I’ve decided that since this is my ‘personal’ blog, I will probably start posting some posts in the “Life” and “Family” categories. I’ve been resistant…
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A Hawk
My wife and I came home to discover this hawk in our yard guarding a dead squirrel. I ran in to grab my camera and got a couple of pictures of it. I guess it wasn’t thrilled with the camera and decided to fly away.
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Windows Live Writer
I really like Windows Live Writer to do offline composition for blogs. However, since moving to Drupal I haven’t been able to get WLW to work. Well, if this post shows up, then WLW is working with Drupal. The main thing that I had failed to do is go to the Blog API module in…
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Newer Mind
One of Wesley’s later sermons was “On God’s Vineyard” which was written in 1779. This sermon reads like a reflection of how God has worked through Wesley’s life and some observations Wesley made. One such observation was about the new birth. Wesley was a man who wasn’t satisfied with ‘outward’ religion. Wesley believed that in…