TMS Global has a new CEO
TMS Global has a new CEO “Thirty years ago, I never would have guessed that God would use our team’s tiny church plant in Kazakhstan to raise up pastors and many believers who now live in 11 countries around the world,” tells Dr. James “Jim” Ramsay, TMS...
Is There Room for Traditionalists?
Is There Room for Traditionalists? By Thomas Lambrecht July/August 2024 The 2020/2024 General Conference has just concluded its ten-day run in Charlotte, North Carolina. A summary of some of the actions taken by the conference are available in last week’s Perspective,...
Prison Evangelism Transforms Inmates
Prison Evangelism Transforms Inmates - By Kudzai Chingwe - HARARE, Zimbabwe (UM News) Editor’s note: For security purposes, only the first names of incarcerated individuals have been used. In an effort to share God’s love with those in need, The United Methodist...
Thank You From A Christmas Charity Kid
Thank You From A Christmas Charity Kid - By Elizabeth Glass Turner - Have you ever bought and donated Christmas presents for kids through an Angel Tree project or local congregational initiative? If so, let me say Thank You for all the kids opening Lego sets, Frozen...
On Contemporary Wesleyan Essentials
On Contemporary Wesleyan Essentials - By David F, Watson - “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.” Christians have recited this maxim at least since the seventeenth century. There is real wisdom here. It does, however, compel us to...
Following the Lead of the Healer
Following the Lead of the Healer - By Stephen Seamands - Healing played an essential part in Jesus’s three-year earthly ministry. In fact, along with teaching and preaching, it was one of his three major activities. The Gospel of Matthew sums up Jesus’s ministry in...
With Faith, Pondering Death
With Faith, Pondering Death - By Terry Mattingly - There was nothing unusual, in the early 1970s, about a student hearing one of his professors preach during chapel. But one sermon – “How Would You Like to Die?” – impressed the seminarian who would later become...
Offer them Christ
Offer them Christ - By Rob Renfroe - I had a strange reaction as I read a United Methodist News article about a youth conference held this summer. The theme of “Youth 2023” was BOLD – Being Ourselves, Living Different. It was sponsored by Discipleship Ministries and...
