God wants the Prince of Peace to arrive into the real-life, complex world of your family! And he wants to send you as His ambassador this Christmas...

Was John Wesley a hypocrite? Hardly. That’s why in the American church we produce so few disciples—because we assume that anything we can’t do easily must be hypocritical...

Either way, the man was no machine. He didn’t preach the life of holiness and sanctification because it came easy. But he never stopped preaching—that sense of prophetic compulsion drove him to continue to seek and to teach the life “made perfect in love.”

When I first started reading any actual Wesley for myself, I had no taste for him. He seemed austere and humorless to me, even severe (and even now, I have never heard anybody accuse of him of being a funny guy)...

Jesus wanders into their fish and pity party, seemingly an ideal opportunity to bring some of that thunder and lightning and post-resurrection zaniness to His doubting followers. It seemed like an ideal time to morph into Sinai-form like He did on the mount of transfiguration and say “How do you like me NOW, disciples?”

The Charlotte Observer is running a story on The Birth this weekend. I did a short interview for the piece, which of course I was thrilled to do as the self-proclaimed biggest fan! Hopefully you will see the article on Sunday...