Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Spoiled by Success
I was reading Looking for Jesus by Adrian van Kaam and stumbled upon this wonderful passage: Clearly, there is no greater thing we can do than to be faithful to the work of God in the most simple events of our daily life. we must do the common work of every day in an uncommon…
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General Conference and Central Conferences
Ben Witherington has posted an article explaining a bit about General Conference (which is meeting as I write this). He discusses some of the issues that will be addressed. Perhaps the most important issue is the proposal to create a central conference in the US. This proposal says that US concerns would be addressed in…
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Changes
I’ve decided to switch my site over to Drupal from WordPress. I had several reasons. I’ll see how this goes. Right now I have this linked to both http://fuzzythinking.davidmullens.com and http://www.davidmullens.com. Hopefully I will be able to add other types of content.
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The Bitterness of the Gospel
The man walked away depressed. Jesus had just told him that to gain eternal life he would have to give up all that he had and sell everything. Since he was rich, the news wasn’t all that good. As the man walked away, Jesus told those standing around how difficult it was for the rich…
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Law of the Heart
"…did Jesus support the law or undermine it? What was at stake was his implicit, and sometimes explicit, claim: that in and through his own work Israel’s god was doing a new thing, or rather the new thing, that for which Israel had longed. And when that happened everything would be different. Torah could regulate…
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A Difficult Faith
I was reading a section from Urban T. Holmes, III A History of Christian Spirituality and something caught my eye. As Holmes was discussion Richard Baxter and his classic work The Reformed Pastor he had this comment, "He is more rigid than Ignatius ever was, however. We must not be too hard on Baxter. He…