Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Perfect Desire
Christian Perfection was one of the defining elements of John Wesley’s theology and also one of the most controversial. Beginning a sermon entitled Christian Perfection Wesley acknowledges how people respond to the idea of being perfected in this life. There is scarce any expression in Holy Writ which has given more offence than this. The…
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Mediafly To the Rescue
I’m a podcast fanatic. I listen to several (mostly tech) podcasts each week. Since I find myself in the car way more than I want, at least a podcast makes the time seem more productive and interesting. I’ve tried several different tools and/or combination of tools to automatically download and sync my podcasts to…
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Movie Based on Wesley to hit Theaters in 2008
I’m not sure when this movie is coming out, but I know I will go to see it. It is being released by an Independent film company, so I don’t know how good the production will be. They say the movie is going to closely follow Wesley’s life. If that is the case, I’m…
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Hope for Transformation
It is not only a deliverance from doubts and fears, but from sin; from all inward as well as outward sin; from evil desires and evil tempers, as well as from evil words and works. Yea, and it is not only a negative blessing, a deliverance from all evil dispositions implied in that expression, “I…
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Like a Plant…
“The spiritual life is like a plant growing in a garden” – Dr. Susan Muto I’m not much of a gardener myself. My daughter wanted a garden when she was about eight years old. She wanted to use her birthday money to purchase seeds. So, as any good parents would do, we let her purchase…