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 […]

In Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth, he carefully includes both men and women who play significant roles in the divine narrative. We see this in the stories of Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary and Joseph, and […]

Though he grew up in the church, Mark Martin, in retrospect, doesn’t feel that he truly knew the Lord by the time he was in college. He was studying to become a doctor at the University of New Orleans when an encounter with the Lord changed the course of his life from pre-med to pastor. […]

Psalm 89 is not ordered in the same way that many other psalms are. Where others begin with lament and end in hope, this one flips the narrative. It begins by laying a foundation of faithfulness. God loves us, the psalmist declares. He is faithful. He can be trusted.

Isaiah 9:2-3 If you’ve worshiped at an Advent service, at Lessons and Carols, or a Hanging of the Greens celebration, you’ve heard this scripture. People collapsing at death’s door step were rescued from darkness by […]

Asachai began to feel an invitation to a deeper relationship with God, as well as a call to ministry, as a middle school student at a Christian summer camp. By the end of high school, he had become a pastoral intern at a local church. […]