Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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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…
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Can’t Figure this One Out
I haven’t taken time to look at the specifics here, but it seems like Fox News and CNN are reading completely different reports from GM. The Fox News link is GM Posts Largest-Ever $38.7B Annual Loss, Offers Buyouts to 74,000 Workers. The title basically says it all. Yet, the CNN link is titled GM offers…
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Rick Warren Video from World Economic Forum in Davos
Robert Scoble was at the World Economic Forum in Davos broadcasting live video from his phone. In the 10 minute video Warren discusses what he is doing, technology in Africa and his church, among other topics. Interesting to see Warren and hear his comments.
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John Wesley on Providence
I was reading Ken Collin’s book The Theology of John Wesley and was surprised when I read about Wesley’s view on providence: …Wesley viewed the particular providence of God in a threefold circle of increasing intensity and care. Thus, the outer circle incldues all of humanity, which is composed of “not only the Christian world…