Waiting is difficult enough when nothing urgent is happening. It becomes much harder when something we care deeply about seems to be getting worse while we wait. Those are the moments when we want God to act now, and every delay can leave us wondering why He does not...
This Bible looks like it has been through a fire. It probably has. Its leather cover is cracked and deteriorated. The edges are badly damaged. Parts of it are visibly singed. Yet more than three centuries after it was printed, the Bible still survives. Known today as...
Most of us would rather not be desperate. We like having options. We like knowing what comes next and believing that, if something goes wrong, we can figure out a way forward. But sometimes life brings us to a place where our options begin to disappear. It is...
While visiting the Museum of Methodism in London this summer, I came across this well-worn concertina. It belonged to Rodney “Gipsy” Smith (1860–1947), one of the most remarkable Methodist evangelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Smith was...
There are moments when a single decision changes the direction of everything that follows. Matthew had one of those moments while sitting at his tax booth. It probably began like countless other workdays had begun, but before that day was over, his life would never be...
While Kalena and I were making our way to Wesley’s Chapel in London this summer, we came across this plaque marking the location of a place I had read about many times: the Foundery. The original building is gone, but about forty yards from this marker once stood what...
Sometimes the thing we most want God to change is not the thing we most need Him to change. In Mark 2, a house in Capernaum was so crowded that four men carrying their paralyzed friend could not get through the door. Rather than give up, they climbed onto the roof,...
#WesleyanHeritage | At the Grave of Charles Wesley During my time in England this summer, one of the places I especially wanted to visit was the grave of Charles Wesley. Tucked away today in the Old Church Garden along Marylebone High Street in London stands this...
We spend a lot of our lives searching for things we think will satisfy us. We tell ourselves that if we can just reach the next goal, solve the next problem, earn a little more, gain someone's approval, or finally get life arranged the way we want it, then we will be...
While traveling through England this summer, Kalena and I made a stop at the old Newman Brothers Coffin Works on Fleet Street in Birmingham. At first glance, a Victorian coffin-fittings factory might seem like an unusual stop for someone interested in Wesleyan...