“The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Wisdom”—Come Follow Me Podcast
Meridian Magazine
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Sanctification and the Sacraments: Encountering the Transforming Presence of God
Sanctification and the Sacraments: Encountering the Transforming Presence of God By Jonathan A. Powers This article is the fourth in a four-week series on sanctification drawn from the webinar sponsored by the John Wesley Institute, exploring the biblical and Wesleyan vision of a life made holy by the power
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Fear God and Keep His Commandments: Wrapping Up Ecclesiastes
This week on the Sermon Notes Podcast, Jay Strother and Brian Ball close out their five-week series through Ecclesiastes, Chasing the Wind, with a conversation on chapter 12, verses 9 through 14. It’s the epilogue to a book that opens and closes with the same hard word: everything is fleeting.
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Saturday Lagniappe: ‘God Brought Them Here: How to See Church Visitors’ And More
God Brought Them Here: How to See Church Visitors This Sunday afternoon I was speaking with my pastor on the phone about first-time visitors—those people who walk through the doors of our churches for the very first time. As we reflected on this, one thought kept returning to my mind:
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It Would Seem That There’s No God: The Third Objection to God’s Existence
When St. Thomas Aquinas set out to prove God’s existence in his Summa Theologiae, he articulated two objections. The first was the problem of evil: How can there be an infinitely good God if there is evil in the world? He answers it by positing the principle of o felix
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The Rise and Fall of Unconditional Love
Does God love you and your fellow travelers on Earth unconditionally? Do Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love all Their children completely, without condition or limitation, no matter what you (they) do, did, or didn’t do? I asked five active members of the Church that question. One said, “Yes.” One
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Academies of Life
Academies of Life by Stephen Rankin The philosopher and spiritual writer, Dallas Willard, of blessed memory, wrote the following exhortation in the introduction to his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines: “Our local assemblies must become academies of life as it was meant to be.” That phrase, “academies of life,”
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Comfort or Calling? Building a Family That Lives on Mission
Most parents want the same things for their families: health, closeness, joy, and security. Those are good gifts from God. But somewhere along the way, it’s easy to start building a family around comfort and a beautiful family experience instead of asking how God wants to use that family for