Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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A Hawk
My wife and I came home to discover this hawk in our yard guarding a dead squirrel. I ran in to grab my camera and got a couple of pictures of it. I guess it wasn’t thrilled with the camera and decided to fly away.
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Windows Live Writer
I really like Windows Live Writer to do offline composition for blogs. However, since moving to Drupal I haven’t been able to get WLW to work. Well, if this post shows up, then WLW is working with Drupal. The main thing that I had failed to do is go to the Blog API module in…
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Newer Mind
One of Wesley’s later sermons was “On God’s Vineyard” which was written in 1779. This sermon reads like a reflection of how God has worked through Wesley’s life and some observations Wesley made. One such observation was about the new birth. Wesley was a man who wasn’t satisfied with ‘outward’ religion. Wesley believed that in…
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The High Cost of Evangelism
I find myself in a denomination that is concerned about it’s life. In North America, attendance is down, membership is down, churches are closing and it seems like it is a stretch to find things to celebrate. Statistics are watched closely. Any church that has growth is studied and, at times, used as a model.…
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Discovery
I’m discovering that it is possible to fail, yet succeed. Sometimes we try so hard to succeed at things that, in the end, just don’t matter that much. The danger is that we succeed in those things, yet fail at the things that really matter. I’m discovering that it is possible to lose, yet win.…
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Wesley on Good Works before Justification
Reading through Wesley’s sermon “Justification by Faith” and ran across this nice quote where Wesley addresses “good works” before one is justified: 5. If it be objected, “Nay, but a man, before he is justified, may feed the hungry, or clothe the naked; and these are good works;” the answer is easy: He may do…