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Our Two Global Pandemics

The Earth – all of us, all humanity – now faces two massive global pandemics: Covid-19 and Climate Change. Underneath and around these, of course, lurks the global pandemic of sin. But I speak now

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Worship: Top 4 Liturgies!

What face does the church show the world? Mainly four, if we look at popular worship liturgies or “styles.” Drop in of a Sunday, and you will likely find one of four quite distinct liturgical

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The Revival We Don’t Need

America needs a great awakening, a shaking revival, a genuine stirring of the Spirit of God. America does not need a pseudo-revival, a movement that champions pseudo-Christianity, that uses religious fervor for unholy ends. Here

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The Advent of New Creation

Jesus’ resurrection was the dawn of New Creation in power. Yet we see signs of new-creation power already in Jesus’ incarnation, life and ministry, and sacrificial death. His victorious resurrection was the decisive vindication of

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America in Peril

I am seventy-eight years old, and I have never seen the United States in a more precarious or vulnerable position. And I am an optimist at heart. These comments update a blog I posted in

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2020 Is Here

Twenty-five years ago, some futurists foresaw a major global crisis arriving in about the year 2020. In 1995 I published EarthCurrents: The Struggle for the World’s Soul. The book discussed a variety of issues, including

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Most Significant Book of 2017

The Band Meeting by Kevin Watson and Scott Kisker is a small book, just 172 pages (Seedbed Publishing). I consider it the most significant book of 2017. The book’s subtitle: Rediscovering Relational Discipleship in Transformational

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What is Christmas? Ask the Angels

Among many other wondrous things, Christmas is a preview of Jesus’ second coming. Christmas is bittersweet. The angels announce good will and peace on earth. Unspeakable joy at the birth of a baby, the long-prophesied

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Strange Stirrings of the Spirit

“God works in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform,” said William Cowper in 1774. I fully agree. One of those mysterious ways is providence (a big theme in John Wesley, about which I’ve written).

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Where’s the Gospel’s Missing Third?

The Bible reveals a whole and healing gospel. Good News! Today however, a third of the gospel is missing from much evangelical preaching, teaching, and living. Even among Wesleyans. The Bible is the story of

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