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, […]

In the Wesleyan tradition, being renewed by the Holy Spirit is a foundational concept that speaks to the transformative work of God’s grace in the life of a believer. For John Wesley, renewal is not […]

Kelly and Shannon had different upbringings regarding faith but found their lives becoming intertwined with a shared calling to ministry during college. Kelly grew up in a family heavily involved in church and felt a call to ministry as a fourth grader at church camp. […]

Ministry can be both awesome and awful. At a personal level, a lack of awareness of one’s holistic well-being can easily lead to disaster. Thankfully, there are practical ways we can preserve ourselves in ministry […]

Prasanth Bethu’s faith is both a product of the Lord’s grace and a testament to the faithfulness of a resilient woman who was radically saved in a majority-Hindu context: his grandmother. She heard the gospel from someone traveling through the area on business and the simple gospel was enough for the Lord to work. […]

Luke 1:5-13 Luke emphasizes that Jesus’s story is rooted in the story of God’s earlier acts for his people. Luke’s first account after his preface (1:1- 4) evokes the story of Abraham and Sarah, an […]