by FAS Admin | Jun 29, 2022 | Ministry Matters
by Rev. Larry Leckrone, Evangelist Several years ago, I was visiting a friend in Ohio who owned a local newspaper. On his wall hung a sign which read, “Advertising Doesn’t Cost—It Pays!” Immediately I was enlightened that the message applied to the biblical principle... 
by Ron Smith | Jun 2, 2022 | President's Post
I have two distinct reasons for joy as I write you today. The first is a report about a writing project that we began with Dr. Kinlaw more than twenty years ago. Actually, the “project” was the culmination of a vision God had given Mr. Burt “Buddy” Luce, a... 
by Ron Smith | May 2, 2022 | Ministry Matters
“My dear children, I travailed in the child-pangs of birth so that Christ may be formed in you” (Galatians 4:19). The Francis Asbury Society is a group of people who receive, model, and share the transforming love of God for the redemption of the world. In this... 
by Vic Reasoner | Feb 28, 2022 | Ministry Matters, Vic Reasoner
Easter is the only major holiday that does not have a fixed date. It can come as early as March 22 and as late as April 25. This year it comes on April 17, and so Lent begins on March 2. In the forty-day journey leading up to Easter, Sundays are not counted because... 
by Ron Smith | Feb 1, 2022 | President's Post
“Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost…?” (Luke 15:4 NRSV) “For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.” (Luke 19:10) The Church of Jesus... 
by Vic Reasoner | Dec 31, 2021 | Ministry Matters, Preaching Holiness Today, Vic Reasoner
W. E. Sangster identified the thirty primary texts upon which John Wesley built his doctrine. Sangster presented these texts in chapter five of The Path to Perfection.((37-52.)) The Wesley Study Bible also lists “The Thirty Texts of Wesley”1 While it could be argued...