Archive: Waiting on God By Margaret Therkelsen I have made a wonderful, new discovery in my prayer life. It is best defined by one of the many injunctions given in the Bible, "Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. For...

Archive: Our Glorious Salvation Restoring the Main Mast of a Storm-tossed Church By Sandy Kirk Black waves pummeled the ship, lifting her high, then plunging her into watery valleys. The storm mounted, the winds roared, the main mast split, and the vessel rocked and...

Archive: Mission Impossible Is Teenage Discipleship an Oxymoron? By Duffy Robbins Mention youth ministry among the average group of pastors or church members and watch how the room comes alive—all of the excitement and expectancy of an appointment for oral surgery....

Archive: First New World Missioner front Cuba by Cheryl A. Capshaw For the first time since a New World Mission program was initiated by the United Methodist Board of Discipleship in 1975, a Cuban pastor is participating. The Rev. Rinaldo Hernandez, Havana, is among...

Archive: After the Storm in Los Angeles While delegates to the General Conference passionately discussed the causes, effects and aftermath of the verdict of the Rodney King case, United Methodists in southern California were ministering to the needs of riot-torn Los...

Archive: Leaders Discuss Evangelism by M. Garlinda Burton Prominent United Methodist scholars and some of the church's most provocative pastors began building bridges among academia, church bureaucracy and grass-roots parishes during an international symposium held in...