Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Revisiting Holiness part 1
I don’t honestly know where to begin. My journey with holiness has been strained over the years. Of course, as a young Christian, I believed in the importance of holiness…I just couldn’t live up to my own expectations. As I attended seminary, I started viewing holiness (and the holiness tradition) as based on antiquated rules…
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Reflections on Chapter 1 of The New Christians by Tony Jones
Just read the first chapter of Tony Jones’ new book, The New Christians. I don’t have the book. The chapter I read was free on the internet. I requested a copy from Tony to review on Missional Methodist Movement website, but as of now, I haven’t received it. I mention that because I want to…
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Day 7 Sleep Experiment
I didn’t realize moving from being a ‘natural riser’ to an ‘alarm clock’ riser would be so difficult. There were a few mornings that all I wanted to do was to turn off the alarm and get back into bed. God enabled me to overcome that temptation. It had to be God because every fiber…
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John Wesley on the Importance of Fasting
First Wesley voices his concern that Methodists are not fasting like they did at one time: 14. It would be easy to show, in how many respects the Methodists, in general, are deplorably wanting in the practice of Christian self-denial; from which, indeed, they have been continually frighted by the silly outcries of the…
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Perhaps Chicken Little was Right!
Yikes! A satellite is falling to earth and NASA doesn’t know where it will land. I guess we have until March to be prepared. They say that the debris will span a couple hundred miles. Hopefully the plan to ‘shoot’ it down won’t have any adverse effects. I’m unclear on whether the plan to shoot…
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My Sleep (or lack of) Experiment
I’ve discovered many benefits of getting up before my family does. Getting up early in the morning gives me time for silence, prayer and reading scripture with little or no interruption. Recently I found on zenhabits of other benefits. So, I decided to kick things up a notch. After all, there are things that I…