The finest prose, the deepest and most profound theological musings, and even the most passionate, eloquent, and carefully crafted sermons are, by comparison, both inadequate and faintly absurd when set beside the fulsome joy and spiritual fecundity that flow from authentic encounter. God’s nature, love, and power are not finally communicated by language; they are encountered. And from …
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 in 1970, had rather far-reaching implications. Today, with the advent of …
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 …
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 …
The fall didn’t simply stain man, but robbed him of his relationship with God, his place in creation, and his first estate. The fall proved a headlong descent into a dark and forbidding world. I cannot imagine that absent a special dispensation of grace, that Adam and Eve could have continued with any will to …
