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Kevin M. Watson … I am teaching a course on Wesleyan Discipleship in Tulsa as a January-Term course at Asbury Theological Seminary this coming January (2025). You should join me! Here is my description of the course: Wesleyan Discipleship explores the history, theology, and practice of discipleship through a Wesleyan lens. Particular attention is given […]

David F. Watson … It’s my second day in Kenya. I’m here to teach pastors in Nairobi. It’s been a few years since I’ve spent time in Kenya. Coming from a leafy midwest autumn into the perpetual motion of Nairobi is jolting. Cars, buses, large trucks, motorbikes, bicycles, and pedestrians crowd together in the streets, […]

David F. Watson … We can’t manipulate Jesus. We can’t bend his will to ours. We can’t praise him with our lips without loving him in our hearts and expect him to save us. Jesus says, “Follow me.” That is a call to loving obedience. He doesn’t want superficial discipleship. He wants everything, every part […]

John Grimm the Methodist … Recently, I was asked to portray Nicodemus for our Wednesday after-school program called JAM (Jesus And Me). This program is open to all children from kindergarten to sixth grade. Only begun this year, JAM is a breath of fresh air for ministry at the Ness City Methodist Church. It has […]

Bob Kaylor …. We come now to the last couple of statements about Jesus in the Creeds—statements that are often overlooked as ancillary add-ons to the central points about his death and resurrection. It’s important for us to remember, however, that Jesus’ mission has a past, present, and future dimension bound up in his titles […]

Bob Kaylor … The Christian proclamation is that Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. This is a central historical claim of Christianity, not merely a metaphysical or metaphorical one. The cross and the resurrection stand as the central foundations upon which all of Christian faith is built. […]

David F. Watson … The early Christians were objects of contempt among their Greco-Roman neighbors. Increasingly, one finds that to be the case in the United States. While I was walking through the Miami airport on Monday, I saw a man wearing a hoodie on which was written “In Glock We Trust.” The same day […]

Bob Kaylor … You’ll notice that the Creeds seem to skip a lot of the story between the birth of Jesus and his death on a Roman cross. That would appear to leave a lot of important stuff out of the equation. It’s important to recognize, however, that the Creeds are primarily focused on addressing […]

Bob Kaylor … One of the key points of the Creeds is to define what the Church means when it talks about Jesus as the incarnation of God in the flesh. John, in the prologue to his Gospel, makes the point that in Jesus “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). Paul […]

Bob Kaylor … In last week’s sermon we took a deep dive into defining what the Apostles’ Creed says when it affirms God as Father, Almighty, and Creator. This week we shift to the lengthiest part of the creed as it talks about the person of Jesus Christ. In fact, the great creeds of the […]