by FAS Admin | May 1, 2023 | Ministry Matters
By Rev. Anthony J. Headley How do pastors function in the midst of such pressing and crippling demands that take a toll on their lives? Because of the limits to this article, I am unable to provide comprehensive or exhaustive strategies on coping. Instead, borrowing...
by Vic Reasoner | Apr 24, 2023 | Preaching Holiness Today, Vic Reasoner
John Wesley considered 1 John to be the deepest part of Holy Scripture, where sublimity and simplicity are combined together, the strongest sense and the plainest language.((Wesley, Journal, 18 July 1765.)) Because the Apostle John was the last of the inspired...
by Vic Reasoner | Apr 17, 2023 | Preaching Holiness Today, Vic Reasoner
I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have...
by FAS Admin | Apr 14, 2023 | About Us
By Joy Smith Griffin, FAS Board Member NOTE: This article was originally published in The High Calling, Jan/Feb 2023 issue. About four weeks into the semester, our women’s softball team had made it into the championship game and we were in the bottom of the ninth...
by FAS Admin | Mar 31, 2023 | Ministry Matters
By Rev. Anthony J. Headley To say that the last few years have brought significant difficulties into the lives of pastoral leaders would represent the mother of all understatements. During these last few years, pastoral leaders experienced untold burdens placed on...
by FAS Admin | Mar 28, 2023 | About Us, Ministry Matters
The Francis Asbury Society Board of Directors is happy to announce, after a national search, the election of Rev. Willis C. (Bill) Kierce as our next president. “We believe he brings the fullness and anointing of the Spirit, passionate commitment to the Lordship of...
by John Oswalt | Mar 15, 2023 | About Us
My life was forever changed in a small room in a dormitory that no longer exists on the campus of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. On that Thursday morning in October in 1958, I sat knee to knee with the Rev. Dennis Kinlaw and told him of my uncertain Christian...
by Vic Reasoner | Mar 13, 2023 | Francis Asbury Institute, Preaching Holiness Today, Vic Reasoner
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:34–36 The remaining studies in this...
by FAS Admin | Mar 10, 2023 | About Us
By Matt Friedeman, FAS Board member I came from a great Christian family with involved Methodist parents. Their church, however, suffered from disappointing leadership in my youth. One day, I declared to my mother, “I’m never going back to that church again.” At age...
by Charlie Fiskeaux | Mar 6, 2023 | Devotional, Prayer
A few years ago, at a Hemlock Inn Retreat, the speaker challenged us on our prayer life with the statement, “If God answered all your prayers, would it make a difference in the world or just in your world?” In other words, how large is the circle of concern about...
