In 47 days I will have a felony possession charge erased from the books. It wasn’t all fun and games. I had to stop smoking marijuana. I had to stop drinking alcohol. I even had to avoid most over the counter medications for the alleviation of common problems, such as colds, allergies, the flu, etc. Read more

As far a reliability goes, their failure rate is on par with other display types. My brother-in-law has a 4yr old Samsung plasma and it is still absolutely stunning, and hasn’t had to do a single thing to it. Read more

About five years ago, as we were beginning Holiness Week for the first time that I would be responsible for shaping it, someone shared an interesting dream with me. We were in the small prayer chapel next to the main sanctuary preparing to go in for the service. The worship leader, who I knew but not well, shared that he had a dream that involved me earlier that week. He said I was coming out of a worship service in the chapel fully robed in religious regalia. I walked over to a closet and began to take off all of the regalia and hang it up. Next he said I walked over to a large white wall and took a paintbrush and paint and began to paint a picture of the nations of the World on the wall. That was it.

I have never forgotten that dream and have pondered the meaning of it frequently. As we are in the midst of a focus on Christian Holiness in Chapel, I thought I would share it publicly for the first time and ask if anyone out there had any sense of interpretation of the dream. Please comment.

I am a book geek. I love reading. I love perusing dusty used book stores. My favorite day of the year is the day I get to buy new textbooks for the semester. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration.

Jordon Cooper, blogger and publisher of Resonate Journal (a resource for Canadien pastors), is putting together a list the 40 essential books for a Masters of Divinity degree. The idea for this came from some other bloggers brainstorming if one could obtain a better education from the 40 best business books rather than forking over $150,000 for an MBA. Read more

One of the greatest things about being part of the geo-physical Asbury community is actually being there. Being in chapel surrounded by hundreds of seminarians literally singing their hearts out; being in class with folks who recognize your face and are genuinely glad to see you at 8:00 on Wednesday mornings (thanks, Micah!); folks who really, really care whether you fulfill that God-given destiny, your vocation. Read more

Our firstborn arrived in mid April of this year, and at a little less than two weeks old he made his first appearance at church. A bit of background–though–to make sense of what follows. My wife and I spent most of the last three years in Chile, working as missionaries in the city and church where she grew up, surrounded by friends and family. We made the move to the US so that I could begin seminary, and about half-way through the MDiv we found out she was pregnant. She had always wanted to have a baby there, in Santiago, surrounded by those who had loved and cared for her since birth, surrounded by those who would love and care for our son because of who he is and who his mother was–not just because he was another cute baby. Read more

A true benefit of coming to know one’s own sin is that personal vanity becomes so much nonsense. Such it is coming to grips with age. While many like to regard “middle age” as somewhere between 50 and 70 years of age (which implies that they expect to live anywhere from 100 to 140 years), I am quite content to admit that at 44 I am middle-aged. Of course, mid-40s for an American male is considered by many the prime of life. Family life is settled, earning potential is at its peak, the body is still vigorous (albeit a bit creaky), self-confidence is high, identity is firmly established, and some of us still have our natural hair (if not necessarily our original hair color) Read more

The other day in a class the question was raised as to whether I would still follow Jesus if archeologist discovered what was determined unequivocally to be the bones of Jesus. Truth is, I don’t know how. I’d like to think that the life of Christ, the notion of God incarnate, living among us and sacrificing himself on our behalf, would be a compelling enough vision around which I could shape my life. But this analysis certainly calls into questions many of my assumptions. Read more

The aim of asburyblog for the fall semester is to bring together a small group of people who write about their spiritual journeys through the season of seminary. This is an experiment. We are not sure how it will go. What we are seeking to learn, explore, and reveal is how a community of Seminary Students can cultivate the practices of holy conversation and reflection on a weblog. Read more

My cousin recommended that I go and visit this bodythoughtsweightloss com/2011/11/04/the-uses-of-the-drug-rehab-and-the-various-facilities-that-could-be-obtained-at-these-places/]drug rehab world-wide-web site, and I decided to let everybody find out about it Nowadays the younger generations are falling in the lure of drug and alcohol addiction which is destroying their daily life Drug Read more