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Comment on Being a ‘Glocal’ Preacher by Developing 21st Century Glocal Servant Leadership | Developing 21st Century Glocal Servant Leadership

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:41:15 +0000

[...] It reflects the need for pastoral practice to be both local and global all at the same time, http://blogs.asburyseminary.edu/global-talk/being-a-glocal-preacher [...]

Comment on Jesus Sees as God Sees (Mark 1:29-45) by Mary Dean

Mary Dean — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:10:16 +0000

What a great encouragement even after the Advent season has passed. I think this website follows along with your discussion about the power of touch http://thejourneysproject.com. I hope it will add to your discussion

Comment on The Indestructibility of Christ (Mark 4:35-41; 13:1,2) by Tim Westrom

Tim Westrom — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:57:40 +0000

Dear Dr. Tennent,
Thank you for these messages. I look forward to them each week. Thanks for the emphasis on Jesus, and the mission He has called us to. Praise God for the peace available to us in Him!

God Bless,
Tim Westrom

Comment on Jesus Speaks as God Speaks (Mark 1:14-28) by Don Little

Don Little — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:40:38 +0000

Recently I was wondering how things are going for you at ATS and so visited the seminary website. I signed up to get your blogs a couple of days ago.

I found this meditation quite insightful. May we learn how to also speak with his authority. You are in my prayers.

Don

Comment on Jesus Speaks as God Speaks (Mark 1:14-28) by Bill Martin

Bill Martin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:54:57 +0000

Hello Dr. Tennent, congratulations on your recent appointment as president of Asbury Theological Seminary. I learned this news when I was visiting Zimbabwe, where I went with my family on OMP in 2003. May the Lord use you mightily as you lead Asbury. We continue to serve in Dakar, Senegal.
Blessings,
Bill

Comment on The Boundaries of the Church by James Mace

James Mace — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:28:59 +0000

Dear Timothy, I’ve been wanting to find out more about you and am glad to see you think spiritually in helpful categories. We need global solidarity from Trinitarian eschatological ecclesiology binding the mature Church in communitarian love. and I suspect we will not succeed in our great commission until we obey the 1st & 2nd Great Commandment combo, to Love the Head and to Love His Body.
Only then will the Church incarnate with power as the immanent presence of God in the world, able to shine like a city to draw the nations and to break chains in liberating captives.
But such maturity is contingent upon defining the identity, obedience and empowering hope of the Church. So examining and delimiting boundaries of the Church and its intra-ecclesial activity, esp. the 2nd Great Commandment of formational love, is foundational to reformation into an overcoming worldview. In that way can we survive persecution and thrive in the centuries ahead.

Comment on Asbury Theological Seminary and the Wesleyan Message by D

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:31:53 +0000

Thanks, nice reading!

Comment on Rebuilding the Pulpit by Neel Roberts

Neel Roberts — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:37:40 +0000

I was in Northeast India earlier this month and was told that someone was perhaps heading to Asbury from a school in that region. One lecturer friend of mine was a bit concerned that the potential student would get a bunch of ideas put in his head that would do more harm than good when they were brought back to India. But I told him that “as long as Dr. Tennent is there I expect that you don’t need to worry.” Keep your focus on good rivets and I will not have any occasion to retract my words.

Comment on A Fire to Preach by Jonathan Andersen

Jonathan Andersen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:39:37 +0000

Thank you for this great message of hope when it is often easy (yet profoundly wrong) to think of these multi-point charges as holding patterns until everyone passes away.

Comment on The Church’s Ultimate Identity by Dave Clark

Dave Clark — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:40:02 +0000

I think it was Emil Brunner who said, “The church exists by mission as fire exists for burning.” I love this kind of thinking and discussion about the purpose of the church and Christian living. It revives my heart and helps keep me on the “straight and narrow way’ of life and ministry.