Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Quick Update
I’m in the midst of doing reading for my next class. It covers formative spiritual along with Wesley’s stress on various small groups (class, bands, etc). It is all very interesting and reignites my interests in Covenant Discipleship groups. I had started the groups in one church, but didn’t stay long enough to see how…
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General Update
Wow. It seems like I’m just posting once a month. Not good. I’ll try to do better. The reason why I’ve not posted is just being involved in other things. I’m doing a couple of shows over at talkshoe.com and that is keeping me busy. Once is the Two Middle Aged pastor’s podcast and then…
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What’s the Point???
Read this post and found myself wondering…if low number can be good (God’s winnowing) or bad (reflecting a group becoming too exclusive) and if high numbers can be good (God’s spirit moving) or bad (people coming for wrong reasons), then what’s the point of numbers? Do we really need to count the heads to know…
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Palm Sunday Reflection
Good reflection from N. T. Wright on Mark 11:1-11 (Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem) Over the next few chapters, in fact, Mark will show us what Jesus meant when, in chapter 10, he radically redefined kingship. This is not to be the sort of royalty that either Israel or the rest of the world…
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N. T. Wright on Resources for the Gospel writers
It seems to me that the evangelists may well have faced, as a major task, the problem not so much of how to cobble together enough tradition to make a worthwhile book, but of how to work out what to include from the welter of available material. The old idea that the evangelists must have…
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Random Stuff
Random Stuff. That link is to my Tumblr website . It is basically a simple blog, but it allows me to do a few things I can’t do on any of my other blogs. Anyway, I’m keeping it for more random stuff, what I’m doing (via Twitter) and links via Del.icio.us and especially quotes I…