The finest prose, the deepest and most profound theological musings, and the most passionate, eloquent, and meaningful of sermons are all grossly and hilariously inadequate in communicating God’s nature, love and power when compared to the fulsome joy and spiritual fecundity that flows from authentic encounter. Revelation, rejuvenation, refreshment and fullness of life flow organically, …
The Asbury Revival and the Heisenberg Effect. I’m rejoicing in what appears to be an authentic revival among the students of Asbury University. Revivals have occurred there on numerous occasions, though the last significant and widely reported revival, which took place 53 years ago had rather far reaching implications. Today, with the advent of social …
3rd Installment – excerpts from the book Partners in Grace (by Larry Easton) An Important Distinction Paul explains this phenomenon further in his epistle to the Church in Rome: For I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I …
2nd Installment – excerpts from the book Partners in Grace (by Larry Easton) What About Today In similar fashion, Paul argues persuasively in his epistle to the church at Corinth for a radical rethinking of our approach to sin and transformational change – a discovery of grace which unleashes power for living. And he died …
1st Installment – excerpts from the book Partners in Grace (by Larry Easton) A Solution to Our Problem The frailties of the human condition . . . we’re all-too-familiar with them. Those unfortunate flaws which have been mankind’s lot since Adam’s fall. From nagging, silly and inconvenient, though not really destructive habits, to darker, more …
While we are a vastly more connected society, our connections seem often to be shallow, impersonal, stilted and, worst of all, actually isolating. While creating the impression of intimacy, they can in fact breed an insidious alienation and loneliness. Instead of presence, they offer a facsimile which may actually lack the incarnation of grace which …
During 1957, the novel Doctor Zhivago (the manuscript having earlier been smuggled out of the USSR) was published in the West. Though the author, Boris Pasternak, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, he was forced by the Soviet Union’s communist government to decline the award. Their outrage and humiliation, a consequence …
How Clear, How Lovely Brightby A. E. Housman How clear, how lovely bright,How beautiful to sightThose beams of morning play;How heaven laughs out with gleeWhere, like a bird set free,Up from the eastern seaSoars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong,No more shall yield to wrong,Shall squander life no more;Days lost, I know not …
A clear distinctive of the early Charismatic Movement was its deep regard and hunger for the Word of God. Indeed, it was a chief hallmark of the movement. To be sure, the gifts of the Spirit, and the phenomenon of glossolalia were pronounced and particularly essential elements of the movement, but it was a renewed …
As we approach election day, anxieties are running high for supporters of both Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. There are voices from both camps condemning inaction by any as a failure of citizenship, or Christian commitment. They scathingly denounce an unwillingness to vote for their candidate as indefensible, unthinking, unconscionable, short-sighted and with regard to our progeny, …
