Fresh Outlook for Licensed Local Pastors
By Matthew Abel - What follows is a discussion on new paragraphs the Wesleyan Covenant Association is releasing for inclusion in its draft “Book of Doctrines and Discipline” regarding the proposal for the service of licensed local pastors. Average worship attendance...
Bishop John Yambasu, RIP
With the rest of the United Methodist family around the globe, we join in mourning the death of Bishop John K. Yambasu, the Resident Bishop of the Sierra Leone Area, who died in a car accident outside Freetown in Sierra Leone on Sunday, August 16. According to the...
Archive: Convo Gives UMs New Hope
Archive: Convo Gives UMs New Hope "I believe Jesus Christ is asking us to go to the young people of the world," said keynote speaker Bishop Richard B. Wilke, Arkansas Area. "One-half of the population of the world is under 14 years of age, and they gulp for the air of...
Archive: Who Will Evangelize the World in 2000 A.D.?
Archive: Who Will Evangelize the World in 2000 A.D.? Church Historian Gerald H. Anderson says the effects of mainline’s decline will be more far-reaching than we realize. The following is a condensation of an address given by Dr. Gerald H. Anderson at the 1990...
Archive: What’s All the HOOPla at Union Chapel?
Archive: What’s All the HOOPla at Union Chapel? By Sara L. Anderson Muncie’s Union Chapel UMC is growing because members take the court, not warm the bench. This isn't a story about basketball. It's a story about a little brick church in the cornfield that grew so...
Archive: Prayer for Busy People
Archive: Prayer for Busy People An interview with Margaret Therkelson "We busy people have to be patient with ourselves about our prayer lives and say, 'Lord, I'm doing the best I can.' He's saying, 'I know you are. Where you are is okay. Start where you are.’" Good...
Archive: Prayer That Helps You Love the Hard-to-Love
Archive: Prayer That Helps You Love the Hard-to-Love By Margaret Therkelson "Wherever you have suffered deep disillusionment, know that it is not because God is not good. It's that God is trying to lead you into a deeper understanding of his faithfulness," says...
Archive: Wisdom’s Feast or Gospel’s Famine?
Archive: Wisdom’s Feast or Gospel’s Famine? The brewing storm over Sophia Worship By Randy Petersen For Eric Umile it started with the Sunday paper. The Philadelphia Inquirer had a front-page story February 19, 1989, on feminist religion. "Women," the paper said,...
