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Wesleyan Accent: The Logic of Holiness
There is a phrase in Wesleyan theology that holds the key to understanding most everything about present salvation. The phrase is “holiness of heart and life.” This is one of those terms that seems...
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Wesleyan Accent: The Power of Forgiveness
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That’s Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion. It explains how birds fly and fish swim. Jump on a trampoline and you’ll experience the third...
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Holy Conferencing: A Means of Grace
John Wesley considered some of the means of grace to be formally established by Jesus Christ in the gospels. One of those is the means of grace he called “Christian conference” at some points and...
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Wesleyan Accent: Discipleship in the Wesleyan Way
The church today puts a lot of focus on the need to make disciples of Jesus Christ. But do we take seriously what that work requires of us? I’m not so sure. I am very sure, on the other hand, that...
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The Throne of Love
In my course, “The Means of Grace in Wesleyan Theology” this semester, we read John Wesley’s sermon, “On Zeal.” The dominant image in the sermon is an illustration by Wesley that is sometimes called...
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In Part 2 of our “Holy Love” sermon series on the First Letter of John, we focus on the twin themes of belonging and becoming. Christian believers are children of God. By grace, they belong to God...
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John Wesley and the Power of Christian Doctrine
John Wesley was passionate about doctrine. In fact, his love of doctrine is one of the more underappreciated (and sometimes even unknown) parts of his leadership of the Methodist movement. Wesley was...
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