After a lengthy and prayer-driven search, the Board of Trustees of Asbury Seminary have voted and approved a new president to lead Asbury Seminary. Tuesday will be the joyous day where the Asbury community in Wilmore and across the world will join together and welcome the new leader of our Seminary. To watch the service [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 14, 2009
Are You Sure?
“Are You Sure?” it says with a sunrise as the background on the cover of the small brochure given to me this morning by 3 teenage boys from a local Baptist church who had the curious audacity to knock on a stranger’s door and inquire about his eternity. It continues when you look inside, “Are [...]
February 9, 2009
Candidacy: Encouraging or Frustrating
The process for becoming a United Methodist minister should be difficult, but not confusing. The calling of the ordained is one that comes with great responsibility. We are all to familiar with the consequences of pastoral failures both morally and professionally, so the UMC needs to have a process that clarifies the calls of those who [...]
February 5, 2009
Log-Cabin-In-The-Woods
I write this from a cabin in the Smokey mountains just outside of Pigeon Forge, TN. I’m not for sure where I am exactly, the many sharp turns and curvy roads leave me unsure of where I am. It doesn’t help that we have no cell phone service. To say I am [...]
