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May, 15, 2019 0
During my first year of seminary, I was introduced to the love feast. Initially, I thought the combination of the words love and feast was my professor’s clever way of referring to the Lord’s Supper. Little did I know the love feast and holy communion, while both being communal feasts of the church…
May, 08, 2019 0
Over ten million tourists visited the city of Florence, Italy, in 2017, solidifying its status as one of the most popular travel destinations. Visitors covet tickets to the Galleria degli Uffizi to view works by Botticelli and Leonardo, the Galleria dell’Accademia to wonder at Michelangelo’s…
May, 06, 2019 0
I was in high school the first time I noticed an ashen cross on someone’s forehead. One evening, I had arranged to meet a friend, and I arrived at his house just as his family was returning from an Ash Wednesday service. After greeting one another, I noticed the dark smudge on his face. I wondered…
May, 06, 2019 0
Epiphany . . . January 6 . . . twelfth night . . . the wise men. Epiphany has special meaning when we think of this day in the church calendar as a time of special manifestation of the Christ, not only to the wise men, but also to us. A special symbol of that manifestation is the star: “When they…
May, 03, 2019 0
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness,
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. (Thomas Chisholm)
Here in these lines from the gospel hymn Great is Thy Faithfulness, the four seasons, the cosmos, and…
May, 02, 2019 0
A growing number of congregations are reaching for a resource called a lectionary for the selection of Bible texts to be used in the worship and preaching of each Lord’s Day. This may seem to be an innovation to many Nazarenes who have not been familiar with this resource and who may not understand…
May, 02, 2019 0
For JESUS Film team members in Havana, Cuba, showing the JESUS film involves much more than pushing “play” on a projector. JESUS Film teams prepare both physically and spiritually for the ministry of evangelizing, discipling, and planting churches, from before sunrise to beyond sundown.
5:00-6:00…
May, 01, 2019 0
We used to live next door to Juan and Maria. We became great friends and spent many hours together in conversation, often sharing a meal. Juan and Maria were immigrants to the United States. We introduced them to the unique features of our culture, which seemed strange to them, and they told us…
May, 01, 2019 0
Hiking with my three sons and two grandsons was a dream come true. We made it to the very tip of Brava Island, my birthplace. It is the ninth largest in size and fifth largest in elevation on the archipelago of Cape Verde, Africa.
Just before reaching 3,200 feet above sea level, I was showing them…
May, 01, 2019 0
From the beginning of creation, humanity has struggled with temptation and sin. In the very first days, Adam and Eve were given one simple command not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Yet when the serpent whispered temptation, Adam and Eve fell into the snare. This is the Bible’s…