O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. These beautiful words from the beloved hymn “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” illustrate a paradox of Christian life: freedom through service. Can you hear, despite the archaic wording, the description […]
Almost Christian or Altogether Christian?
In a not-well-known-enough sermon on a not-well-known-enough Bible story, John Wesley interrogates Acts 26, where Paul presents the gospel to King Agrippa, the feudal lord of Judea, and (in the King James translation) Agrippa tells Paul, “Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” Wesley goes on to offer a devastating choice to those with ears to […]
