Matt Lipan claims that good neighbors respect property lines, while holy neighbors look for ways to connect over the fence. Expect to be challenged as you read about the difference between a good and a holy neighbor.
If the scandal used to be that slavery and religion could co-exist, today it is that holiness could be conceived of by some as something other than social. Today we remember those prophets like Martin Luther King Jr. who called God’s people to be holy as he is holy, and today we press on in full faith that God will do it.
When thinking of the Wesleyan understanding of God’s love, keep in mind both ways of describing grace. Mercy is the love of God toward the individual. It forgives, embraces, and accepts. Power is the love of God within the individual. It transforms and makes new.
Can we be holy? In this Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. John Oswalt addresses the claim by many that we are only viewed holy and righteous through Jesus Christ.
From the vault: J. D. Walt interviews Dr. John Oswalt on why holiness matters. He contends that holiness is not an aspect of the Christian faith nor even just a quality of God. Rather, it is essential to his nature and must become essential to ours.
What is sanctification? This post is a chapter from Dr. Timothy Tennent’s book, 30 Questions: A Short Catechism on the Christian Faith available for purchase from our store. This resource makes for a great teaching tool in local
I’ve admired the work of John Eldridge for some years now. I have known a number of men who have experienced extraordinary growth in their relationship with Christ as a result of reading his books
How do modern understandings of the baptism with the Holy Spirit trace their understandings to John Wesley and John Fletcher? Dr. Larry Wood shares. View our growing playlist of Seven Minute Seminary here.
Jason B. Hood recently authored Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern (IVP Academic, 2013). We are pleased to provide this interview with him about his work. Next week we’ll offer a free chapter
Dr. Laurence Wood here discusses the special relationship between predestination, holiness, and science. View our growing playlist of Seven Minute Seminary here.
In the middle to late Nineteenth Century a group of Christians revitalized Wesley’s doctrine of entire sanctification and perfection in love. It was not a theological renaissance that took place in the halls of academia but a revival of experimental theology. They were the holiness movement, and here is a list of ten Holiness Christians everyone should know.
Dr. Kenneth Collins on the center of John Wesley’s theology—holiness and grace. View our growing playlist of Seven Minute Seminary here.
