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QUESTION: Why did John Wesley omit Ash Wednesday and Lent?...
Q: So, should we still tithe ten percent even though The United Methodist Church spends money in ways I sharply disagree with? How do I resolve that? For my second installment on t...
In leading Courageous Conversation workshops with church leaders, the first and biggest challenge I hear raised is “How do we get people to show up?” This question is both understa...
Rev. Dr. Yatta Young of Liberia recollects the fables told to her by her grandmother and the important lesson each one carries. She hopes to publish a collections of these fables a...
Discipleship Resources International envisions local, sustainable publishing operations throughout the central conferences that meet the needs of the church and support the discipl...
I’m guilty of including subtle and not so subtle anti-Semitic references in my preaching. There are passages in the New Testament, when read literally and without an understanding ...
QUESTION: Should worship leaders speak in tongues while leading worship?...
You've probably been there. Maybe it's a prayer group, and either you are a very small group to begin with or it's time to start, you've only got 30 minutes before folks need to le...
Scott and Steve explore the Wesleyan distinctive of small groups – accountability. We also discuss the Book of Discipline’s mandate to accountable discipleship through small groups...
Discipleship Resources International (DRI) launched the Zambia Publishing Team in May of this year. The team unanimously decided the highest priority was a resource to deepen the k...
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11 & 12, 2017 are a symptom of a sickness that has been part of this country from its founding. A quick review of history reve...
QUESTION: Why do many churches have altars installed against the back wall of the sanctuary?...
QUESTION: How to Preside - 4 Things NOT to Do, and 4 Better Things TO Do...
I first met Rev. Dr. Rhoda Manzo Mutare, Zimbabwe, at the Anglophone Writers' Workshop in 2014. She offered her writing quietly and tentatively, prefacing her reading by saying she...
I recently returned from leading the annual Wesley Pilgrimage in England. The pilgrimage is a ten-day immersion in Wesleyan missional leadership. Pilgrims worship and pray together...
In part two of this two part episode, Scott and Steve have the opportunity to interview missional small group guru M. Scott Boren. We discuss further insights into missional commun...
Wait, you say, doesn't Advent start in late November? For most Western churches, yes, it does. But as many ecumenical worship leaders have been noting for a number of years now, in...
At some point in your life, you’ve had coaches or mentors who were constructive and exceptional and others who were not. If your experience is like mine, you’ve had coaches who did...
QUESTION: The Principles of Presiding at the Lord's Table...
In my last blog post, I introduced readers to “The Rivers of Life” congregation. Rivers of Life is one of the few Arabic-speaking communities of faith in the United States. Last ti...
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