Resourcing the church
Wesleyan higher education resolved to share spiritual conversations to serve others and transform lives.
Voices
To feed just one more
A small Florida church runs a food pantry with a giant impact.
A labor of legacy and love
A North Carolina church plant opens doors to a new generation on the foundations of an older one.
We all learn differently
How are we taking inventory of our people’s gifts and talents? Are we assuming we all learn the same way?
The power of saying “yes” to God
Tom and Sarah Cochran have Unleashed a Kingdom Force of rescuing vulnerable children around the world.
Life is sacred
The reason why brutality upsets humanity, ignites passion of protest, of standing together opposing crimes against humanity, is because life is sacred.
Antiracism work is gospel work
The world is watching to see if our gospel is big enough to address racism.
A place for Jesus
Have I prepared a place for Jesus in my own heart?
Peacemaking in a polarized society
The conclusion of peacemaking is long and difficult, but acts of peacemaking are deceptively simple.
Nudge leads to life change
How is God urging you to welcome someone “outside” into your “inside?”
Lost boys of America: riots, rage & redemption
A deferred dream became a nightmare on May 25 in Minneapolis.
Feel what I have felt
“We don’t want a Chinese pastor!”
A hinge of history
An ode to George Floyd and civility
A Wesleyan lament over the lie of racial value
This lie has become so insidious, so ever-present that it is hard for those of us who have light skin to recognize it.
Quarantined on Easter weekend
In addition to “going” and “showing,” part of the Christian vocation is to engage in holy quarantine. We wait. We pray. We minister how we can.
A banana bread-loving evangelist
It has become so easy to talk about my wife’s banana bread recipe, but why is it so hard to talk about my faith in Jesus?
The importance of repentance in reconciliation
My prayer is that we refuse indifference and act with courage, that we own the scriptural reality that there is no reconciliation without repentance.
The sadness of silence
Although not everyone understands how valuable a life is, I believe God is changing hearts among his church, and as Christ’s disciples, we should be champions for his redemptive work within the pro-life movement as well.
Everyone at church is a mess. Here’s why I keep going.
When I’ve been in the depths of depression, heartbreak, moral conundrums, in the lowest valleys of my eating disorder and insecurities, I never gave up on the church, and the church has rarely failed me.
Thriving as a teen in a tough world
South Carolina teens talk about how it looks to thrive as Christians in today’s tough culture.
Being “doers” of James 5:16 in recovery ministry
When someone gets honest about something, that changes things.
Believe, Belong, Become
We can have the same spiritual awakening in our homes, communities and our churches as I had in the places where Jesus walked, if we make it our purpose to believe, belong and become.
Time to fix the faucet
Individually, we who call ourselves followers of Christ need the light and resourcing from the Holy Spirit to fix broken things that we have become accustomed to.
The disciple’s sixth sense: seeing in the dark
Navigating our faith in the dark seasons of life requires the development of a sixth sense, an ability to engage and perceive God beyond the five senses through which we experience our natural world.
