I’ve been talking to people lately about a roadblock that I think I see in spiritual growth. It looks like a two-step process: (1) “get” (understand) the principle and then (2) “apply” it, which means to incorporate it into our,
Discerning Our Desires
People who read John Wesley and study early Methodism know quite well that the only criterion for joining a Methodist society was “the desire to flee the wrath to come.” Sometimes this statement is used as an argument against doctrinal
The Emotional Impact of Good Thinking
There is a long practice (or prejudice) in Christian history that separates “head” and “heart.” It comes to us most strongly, perhaps, from the Pietist movement that began in Germany in the 17th century. People who identify themselves as “evangelical”