Saved to the Uttermost
By Maxie Dunnam - To be a Christian is to change. It is to become new. It is not simply a matter of choosing a new lifestyle, although that will change. It has to do with being a new person. A new person does not emerge fully formed. Conversion – passing from death to...
Remapping Our Wesleyan Future
By Thomas Lambrecht - News that General Conference 2020 has been postponed until sometime in 2021 has thrown the denomination into a temporary limbo regarding a future amicable separation. Beyond question, this was the right decision. With the spreading coronavirus...
Carl F.H. Henry: Leader of the Evangelical Renaissance
Carl F.H. Henry: Leader of the Evangelical Renaissance by Beth Spring Good News March/April 1983 What could an eminent theologian and a gray-haired Methodist widow have in common? The theologian – now a leading spokesman for evangelical Christianity – is Dr. Carl...
Archive: Speaking Out (WCC: What More Can We Say?)
Archive: Speaking Out An occasional column for guest opinion WCC: What More Can We Say? by Riley B. Case The World Council of Churches (WCC) has once again become the center of controversy. This time it's because of a Reader's Digest article entitled "Karl Marx or...
Archive: Mission: Mississippi
Archive: Mission: Mississippi MISSION: Pilgrimage of Love and Learning PLACE: Voice of Calvary, Jackson,Mississippi AUTHOR: Duffy Robbins, Director, UMYF, Wilmore, Kentucky PHOTOGRAPHER: Keith Koteskey, Member, Wilmore UMYF June 25, 1982. ...Conversation is humming...
Archive: The Price of Spiritual Power
What can the early church teach us about the conditions for power in the church of today? Archive: The Price of Spiritual Power by Michael Green, Rector, St. Aldate's Anglican Church, Oxford, England Reprinted with permission from the June 1981 issue of Pastoral...
Archive: On Things Left Behind
Archive: On Things Left Behind By James V Heidinger II, Editor, Good News Though we speak much of pluralism these days, at the same time I am hearing increasingly of theological liberals who cannot discuss theological issues with evangelicals for very long without...
Archive: Whatever Happened to HELL?
Archive: Whatever Happened to HELL? by G. Roger Schoenhals adapted from an article ©1977 Light and Life Press I remember hearing a sermon on hell. I was a child, and it so frightened me I wanted to be a Christian just to escape going to that awful place. That was 30...