Wendy Deichmann

Jesus follower, Professor of history and theology at United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH, USA.

[Ryan N. Danker @RyanNDanker]

“A worldly clergyman is a fool above all fools, a madman above all madmen...These are the pests of the Christian world, the grand nuisance of mankind, a stink in the nostrils of God.”
- John Wesley, not mincing words in 1789

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Does God ever get disgusted with us? With the church? With a given community? When? What does it take? What does it look like if God is disgusted?

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@JeffGreenway Yes indeed!

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Jesus came and stood among them and said, “ Peace be with you.” (John 20:19)

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@matt_judkins Indeed!

[Ryan N. Danker @RyanNDanker]

“It is better to please God and displease man than to please man and displease God.”
- John Wesley

[Stephen W. Rankin @stephenwrankin]

(John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection [and elsewhere]): “Scripture perfection is pure love filling the heart and governing all the words and actions.” About as succinct a definition and goal as you can find.

[Ryan N. Danker @RyanNDanker]

And on his Gregorian/New calendar birthday, a happy 319th Mr. Wesley! #Wesley #birthday #faithful

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@markdtooley What “if the salt has lost its saltness....”?

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@markdtooley Yes.

[Leonard Sweet @lensweet]

Lightning strikes, not at random but at what's most ready to receive the charge. Spirit comes upon those most ready and prepared to receive the fire. Are you ready to connect? Are you prepped for the Pentecost charge? #Pentecost

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@john98548993 Evil is seductive and blinds its adherents to truth. This is why we need good governance and the rule of just laws.

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Racially motivated crimes, especially murder, are bold-faced embodiments of evil and an egregious affront to the Creator and all humanity.

[Leonard Sweet @lensweet]

Danger of professionalism in the church? The call to “serve” can migrate to serving the institution or creep into serving the self rather true sense of vocation-called to serve Jesus' body in others. Ecclesiastical promotion without deepened sense of vocation to serve is demotion

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Thank you Jesus for true freedom. Thank you to all who have sacrificed for the sake of freedom in this world.

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@JustusHunter @AsburyUniv May be so but UTS has YOU, Justus.

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@stephenwrankin So true.

[GCORR @gcorrumc]

Racism is sin. End of sentence.

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Insofar as you are filled with the love of Jesus you will probably have to face darts of the devil in this life, but, better to do so grounded in the passion, perfection, and power of God's triumphant love in Christ than never to have encountered either.

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"Make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it." - Edward W. Bok