Ministry Matters - Hopeful discernment: the Asbury revival & sacred conversation | From dust to dust to hope

So has revival happened at Asbury? Hopeful discernment: the Asbury revival and sacred conversation by Tom Fuerst   The claim I make here is not some kind of both-sides-are-right argument. Rather, I think the weaknesses of both traditions suggests that, on their own, they lack something necessary in being the complete body of Christ. If anything, my argument is that both-sides-are-wrong without each other. The church needs urgency. The church needs discernment. The church needs warm hearts. And the church needs Oxford fellows. Were not both of these realities hypostatically incarnate in our Wesleyan namesake? Read here

What do we gain from facing our mortality? From dust to dust to hope by Jake Owensby   Kate Bowler had been suffering bouts of debilitating intestinal distress for some time. Eventually a specialist diagnosed her condition as cancer. Stage IV cancer. She was 35 years old. A rising star at Duke. Married to her high school sweetheart. And the mother of their baby son. You may be familiar with her story. Her writings and her media appearances tell us what it was like to get that wretched news and to undergo the harrowing and successful treatment. Read here

How different are we really when we consider our lives and struggles and weaknesses? Lent is a season of stubborn hope by Kate Bowler/Religious News Service   Whole swathes of space are empty, while elsewhere galaxies drift through the void for eons of time before colliding with each other. Some stars go nova and incinerate the planets orbiting them, expending themselves in an explosion so powerful that our naked eyes can see it millions of light-years away. Cosmic dust coalesces and new stars are born, while black holes swallow light itself. Read here

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