Predestination Second — Love First!
Have this clearly in mind: Salvation is not based on predestination. Rather, predestination is based on salvation. Many people twist things at this point. Some Christians see predestination as the key...
View ArticleThe Great Church Earthquake
It happened in 1947. A great earthquake demolished a big church building that had been used for centuries by a devout Christian congregation. The building was almost completely destroyed. The roof had...
View ArticleE. Stanley Jones: Radical Saint with Feet of Clay
Eli Stanley Jones was born in Clarksville, Maryland, on January 3, 1884, at the height of the American Holiness Movement. Though as a Christian Jones was shaped by that movement, his years as a...
View ArticleThe Radicaler Wesley?
May 24, 2014 — Aldersgate Day, and the day The Radical Wesley: The Patterns and Practices of a Movement Maker is officially published by Seedbed Press. John Wesley “broke the faith barrier” on this...
View ArticleThe (Surprisingly) Comprehensive Wesley
On February 22 I posted on Facebook this quotation from John Wesley: They who make the glory of God their end, and the Word of God their rule, the Spirit of God the guide of their affections, and the...
View ArticleHow Free Methodists Got Left Behind
Introduction Free Methodists are fortunate in this: Their principal founder and their denomination were born decades before the powerful invasion of premillennial dispensationalism into American...
View ArticleTwelve Fun Wesley Myths
1. John Wesley rose at 5:00 a.m. everyday. Fact: Wesley’s pattern varied according to circumstances, and particularly when he was traveling, as he often was. Frequently he would rise at 4:00, have...
View ArticleFIve Ways Science is Spiritual
Advent may be a good time to think about the spirituality of science. Genuine science is not really secular, but spiritual. Think about its spirituality. Here are five spiritual dimensions of science:...
View ArticleThe Myth of “God’s Uncontrolling Love”
John Wesley said God’s providence is a key Christian truth. “There is scarce any doctrine in the whole compass of revelation which is of deeper importance than this” (Sermon 67, “On Divine...
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