Losing the Gospel
By Thomas Lambrecht - What does it mean to be saved? How is one saved? These questions are at the heart of the Gospel. John Wesley famously wrote, "I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence I am no...
Stick to the Path
By Thomas Lambrecht - As a young adult, I became fascinated by the story told by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I was inspired by the extraordinary adventures on behalf of human goodness undertaken by ordinary folk. Through my wife's...
Archive: God Beckons ‘Come Near to Minister to Me’
Archive: God Beckons ‘Come Near to Minister to Me' If the Lord is to be lord worship must have priority in our lives. The first commandment of Jesus is "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all...
Archive: Can Somebody Find a Way to Clone This Guy?
Archive: Can Somebody Find a Way to Clone This Guy? By Dierdra DeVries Moran If we had more people like Gus Gustafson, the Church would have fewer problems. "I'll be a preacher! I'll be a boy preacher! Why, I'll start right now!" said a teenaged Gus Gustafson, the man...
Archive: How We Can Overcome Our Private Misery
Archive: How We Can Overcome Our Private Misery By J. I. Packer ‘It belongs to true Easter faith to take to our own hurts the healing of the Emmaus Road’ On Friday afternoon they took Him down from the cross as dead as a man can be. On Sunday afternoon He walked most...
Archive: The Barefoot Storyteller
Archive: The Barefoot Storyteller By Sara L. Anderson The storyteller paces across the stage on bare feet in apparel appropriate for a Christmas-pageant shepherd or a modem Bedouin. A cherubic grin and mischievous twinkle in his eyes punctuate a significant part of...
What Dietrich Bonhoeffer Might Say To The United Methodist Church
Archive: What Dietrich Bonhoeffer Might Say To The United Methodist Church By Bishop Ole Borgen (1925-2009) January/February 1990 Good News It was German theologian and church leader Dietrich Bonhoeffer who first coined the terms “costly grace” and “cheap grace” in...
Archive: The Healing Graces Of Hospitality
Archive: The Healing Graces Of Hospitality How can ministers' wounds become sources of healing? On the one hand no minister can keep his own experience of life hidden from those he wants to help. Nor should he want to keep it hidden. But a minister who talks in the...
