Though Paul Lawler sensed the pull of ministry as early as age eight in the halls of his childhood Methodist church, his teenage and young adult years consisted of skepticism. “I navigated into vague deism and then agnosticism,” Paul says. “I struggled to wrap my head around how a man going to a cross had anything to do with me.”

Encountering the Gospel Darryl came to faith at 13 due to the faithful evangelism of friends who attended local Baptist and Pentecostal churches. He visited a local Baptist church with friends and heard the gospel […]

By his own recollection, Thomas Henry was a shy kid struggling to find where he fit in when he met the Lord. At a Christian camp in 1974, he suddenly felt sure about his relationship with God. The effect on his life was clearly perceptible, both inside and out. “I knew for sure that my savior and my father had found me,” Thomas says. […]

The Board of Trustees of Asbury Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the unanimous election of Dr. David F. Watson as the Seminary’s next president. […]

“Looking back, I always had a sense of God’s presence,” says Dave Janvier. As a licensed professional counselor who has worked and researched at the intersection of psychology and spirituality, awareness of God’s presence has been crucial throughout Dave’s life. […]

According to Marty Cramer, she and her husband, Darrell, were raised in very different midwestern American subcultures. Marty was raised in an upper-middle-class family who attended a Methodist church while Darrell grew up in a lower-income family, of which he later became the first college graduate. However, of the many positive outcomes that came from their meeting […]

At 11 years old, Jeannine Brabon had already spent her childhood as a missionary kid in Colombia. Her family traveled to the United States on furlough and attended a missionary conference at which Bill Gilliam, an Asbury Seminary graduate, spoke to the youth. […]

No passage of Scripture has more deeply informed and challenged my approach to teaching and leading as that which has come to be called Paul’s Kenotic Hymn in Philippians 2: 1-18. A colleague of mine […]

As students transform into alumni, it is a strong conviction of Asbury Seminary that they remain a vital part of our community. Just as we seek to support our students with rigorous theological education and […]

The success or failure of a preacher depends largely upon the preacher. It is understood and will be readily admitted that, first of all, the preacher must be a man of true piety. He needs, […]