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Doctrinal Symposia

The Wesleyan Church will be hosting the 2010 Doctrinal Symposia in the latter half of the coming year. This year’s topic is slated to be ‘Wesleyan Perspectives on Human Nature: Perfect, Flawed, and Redeemed.’. Furthermore, the question is asked, ‘Viewed from the perspective of creation, carnality, and consecration, what was human nature intended to be, …

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August 28, 2009 – 6:34 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in Theology | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

The Folly of Forgetting

Recently, I wrote about the biblical admonition to ‘remember.’ Today, I want to look about the ‘folly of forgetting’ and the consequences of failing to remember. We are people who are prone to forget. We forget birthdays. We forget anniversaries. We forget appointments. We forget faces. We forget names. There are now entire sectors of …

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July 13, 2009 – 4:48 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in General | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Remember: A Biblical Admonition

The word ‘remember’ occurs, in some form, 233 times in the NIV. Throughout the biblical text, the people of God ask God to ‘remember’ the covenant that He has made with His people. They ask Him to remember with the hope that He will deliver them from bondage and oppression. God’s people ask Him to …

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July 12, 2009 – 4:49 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in General | Tagged , , , | View Comments

fix me — fix you: how does change happen? and, how can we be transformed and renewed?

When you try your best but you don’t succeed When you get what you want but not what you need When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep Stuck in reverse. And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can’t replace When you love someone but it goes to …

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July 10, 2009 – 4:51 pm | By joshrhone | Posted in General, Life/Society/Culture | Tagged , , | View Comments