Six couples sit in the darkness of the van as it swerves left and right, up and down through the Kentucky countryside approaching Midway where dinner waits at the Holly Hill Inn. Stories pour out
Teddy Ray highlights how views on balancing family and ministry have changed over the years. The Pope just got a twitter account—but he follows no one. Slate reports on how being transgender is no longer
I’m a Wesleyan. Always have been, always will be. However, as I look across the landscape of American evangelicalism, it’s hard to escape the fact that something new and exciting is happening in the Calvinist
J.D. Walt | This week’s “Second Breakfasts” are taken from the collection of powerful excerpts framing the influences, life and ministry of John Wesley. The messages here are richly transformative and serve as the foundation for Seedbed’s distinctive spiritual-theological heritage.
Eli Stanley Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 3, 1884. He studied law briefly at City College before moving to Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky.
In February of 1905, Jones and three other men were having a private prayer meeting when, about 10 p.m., the Holy Spirit seemed to enter the room. Other students joined them, and revival spread across the Asbury campus and around the town of Wilmore. There were confessions of sin, powerful prayers, and new deeper commitments to the Lord. In his spiritual autobiography, Jones said that this revival liberated him from a sense of superiority, which prepared him for future work as a missionary, opened his ears to the Holy Spirit, and led directly to his calling to the mission field. Jones graduated from Asbury in 1907 and became a missionary to India under the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In India […]
This week we are featuring Stephen Seamands’ summer reading list. We’ve linked all the titles to their amazon page and included brief summaries of each title from the publisher.
WHAT IS SEEDBED? Founded on January 6, 2012, Seedbed is a twenty-first century movement and media platform whose mission is to gather, connect, and resource the people of God to sow for a great awakening. NOW,
As the U.S. economy continues to struggle, low-income schools will be in even greater need of assistance from sources beyond the local district. This provides an unparalleled opportunity for the Church to step up and show the love of Christ in practical, need-meeting ways. Today we will see how Faithbridge United Methodist Church began their partnerships with local schools, and they offer three tips to help your Church get started in a similiar ministry.
The Practical Divinity series continues this week with a post on the nature of John Wesley’s small groups and one reason why they are so important—identity formation. As usual, we offer three ways to think through the implications of this theme for your own life and ministry.
On the day after the day that changed the World forever, the Day of Pentecost, we offer a real treat. Dr. Timothy Tennent has granted us permission to share with our readers the short essay he authored in his book, This We Believe: Meditations on the Apostles Creed. This one packs theological depth and a practical punch. Enjoy and share it widely. If there’s one thing we need to see more of in the Church today it is solid teaching on the person of the Holy Spirit.
Today’s Saturday Post features an article by Timothy C. Tennent, President of Asbury Theological Seminary. The article, posted earlier on www.timothytennent.com, has received widespread attention at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church (presently underway). He offers incisive and bold guidance on what it would take to recover United Methodism as an apostolic movement. Read and Share.
In this week’s Saturday Evening Post, J.D. Walt offers an encouragement, a resource and an invitation to a Sabbath Challenge.
