Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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You Can Help
As some of you know, I’m in the midst of a Doctoral program through Asbury Theological Seminary. If for some reason you would like to help me out, one way would be to use my Amazon Store whenever you want to order from Amazon. It really does help! If you go to the "UMSource" section,…
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Paper Finished!
Over the past month I’ve been researching and writing a paper for one of my D.Min classes. I’m happy to report I sent it in today! Wow. Finally. I’ve discovered that I like the research much more than that writing. I guess I also need to find someone to read through my papers and help…
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Sleep Experiment update: Advice from Wesley
It was about 30 days ago that I decided to begin getting up early. For 30 days now my alarm has gone off and I have gotten up without getting back into bed. I find I enjoy my times in the morning, although I am finding this time change thing a bit difficult. As I…
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Revisiting Holiness part 3
This is the third in a series of posts about holiness. First post||Second Post For a long time, holiness was a negative term for me because I always saw it as restrictive, difficult, and ineffective to the goals I had for my spiritual life. I wanted joy and I wanted love. Actually, I didn’t really…
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Attention Span
I’m not sure what is happening. Perhaps it is too much internet use or something. I just found myself being impatient while watching a 3 minute video on YouTube! For some reason I wanted to start clicking stuff on the page and scrolling through other things. The video was only 3 minutes long! Perhaps that…
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Transformation of the Heart
People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, "If you keep a lot of rules, I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing." I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time…