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Aug, 13, 2015 0
HT: What’s the best thing about being a district superintendent?
DS: The opportunity to see young, gifted, called pastors find a place to serve. Also, to write “permission slips” to help them live out and see those callings fulfilled.
HT: Do you find yourself mentoring pastors?
DS: Yes, in…
Aug, 13, 2015 0
How can we as Nazarenes understand what it means to be Nazarene? We are people who are not just separated from something, but we are connected to something. Here are five aspects of our theology and heritage that connect us as partners in faith.
1. Embrace our Wesleyan heritage.
One of the best…
Aug, 05, 2015 0
Four years before his death John Wesley, founder of Methodism, wrote in the Arminian Magazine: “I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having a form of religion without the…
Aug, 05, 2015 0
While peer pressure may be as old as the hills, these days it’s growing more and more powerful and pervasive among teens. What’s the solution?
We find the key in the Trinity: In community.
Cory, 15, may not have realized that when he made this observation: “When I find myself in situations of…
Aug, 05, 2015 0
On November 6, 2012, millions of Americans cast their votes for those they believed should serve as the next leaders of the U.S. That evening, many sat glued to their screens, participating in what has become a national ritual. Closely watching the results, people celebrated victories and lamented…
Aug, 05, 2015 0
I have read and heard numerous stories of women who were told things in their own churches about being ministers. My heart breaks for the many girls who were led to believe that they could not be pastors or preachers because of their sex. At the same time I breathe a silent prayer of thanks that I…
Aug, 05, 2015 0
My husband, Tim, and I have been co-pastoring the church of our dreams for the last three years. But believe it or not, co-pastoring was not in our “life plan.” Early in our relationship we struggled with anxiety about the balance of our individual callings, and how life and ministry would unfold…
Aug, 05, 2015 0
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. . . . A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12).
In 1990 I began teaching fifth grade at a Baltimore school district’s flagship elementary school. It…
Aug, 04, 2015 0
Most of the time bulletin boards give me an idea of what a place is about, so I like to check them. Recently a bulletin board prompted me to answer a very familiar question: “If you could go back in time, what Bible story would you like to experience?” My answer would not always be the same,…
Aug, 04, 2015 0
Almost 22,000 Korean Nazarenes look to him for leadership. President of the largest Nazarene university in the world. Korea Nazarene University (KNU) and pastor of one of the largest Nazarene churches in Korea, Shin, Min-Gyoo certainly has his hands full. Extremely busy but also mild-mannered and…