The Art of Holiness

Jonathan Edwards is our faithful and gifted producer of this podcast. He listens to every episode and every once in a while we get together and recap what we’ve experienced through listening to the amazing people who make these conversations worth it. I hope you enjoy … 

Ryan Barnett serves on the teaching staff of Truett Theological Seminary (Baylor University), and with the leadership team of the Mid-Texas Annual Conference of the Global Methodist Church. He spent twenty years as a local pastor and learned a lot about evangelism by growing congregations that were focused on winning those who had not yet professed faith in Jesus Christ. In his zeal for seeing the...

BIO: Timothy Jones is a pastor and author known for helping people uncover greater warmth and depth in their relationship with God. His books include Awake My Soul: Practical Spirituality for Busy People; The Art of Prayer; and Celebration of Angels. Tim enjoys good stories and playing old-time banjo music. He lives near Nashville with his wife, Jill. While many theological texts treat the Trinity...

Al Gordon is a Christian leader, pastor, and voice in the global creative movement within the church. He is the founder of Renaissance, a movement focused on helping artists, leaders, and innovators reclaim their God-given creative calling. He leads SAINT, a church in East London with a mission to bring hope and renewal to the city. He is known for working at the intersection of faith, culture and...

Friends, this is such a rich conversation on the Wesleyan doctrine of assurance -- everything Katherine has learned in her recent deep dive into the topic. You don't think you need this, but by the end of the conversation you'll be saying, "Wow ... I needed this."

This week, Brandy, Katherine and Carolyn process all theyve learned during this series on healing from generational consequences. This is a solid episode, if we do say so ourselves! 

Rica McRoy is sheer treasure. Such wisdom and spiritual depth! Today, she shares with us the wisdom of her exploration into healing generational harm, as we continue a series of messages on this topic. Rica is wife to Spike, Momma to Rily, Parker and Sophie, optometrist, and member of the body of Christ in her hometown of Huntsville, Alabama. Spurred by the Holy Spirit, Rica reads and writes, lear...

In today's conversation with Dr. Steve Seamands, we continue to explore how to deal spiritually with generational consequences. Steve served as the Professor of Basic Christian Doctrine at Asbury Seminary for close to 40 years. In addition to that class, he taught Introduction to Spiritual Warfare, Introduction to Healing Prayer, and a class studying the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Seamands...

This week, we begin a series of conversations on what it means to heal from generational consequences. Some of my best teachers on this topic have been Rica McCroy, Luther, Oconer, Steve Seamands and Angel Davis. This week we hear from Angel Davis, a long-time friend and mentor to me in the area of healing prayer. Angel is a Christian psychotherapist who in this season of life mostly mentors Chris...

Dr. John West is Vice President at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, where he serves as their director of the Center for Science & Culture. His work emphasizes the impact of science on public policy. His research and writing also focuses on constitutional law, American government and institutions, and religion and politics. Dr. West is a prolific author, having written or edited thirteen...

I’ve had the privilege of knowing Dr. Sandra Richter not just as a respected Old Testament scholar, but as a thoughtful mentor and deeply generous human being. Sandy has an extraordinary gift for bringing the ancient world of Scripture into sharp, living color. Whether in the classroom or in conversation, she has a way of making the Hebrew Bible feel cohesive, compelling, and profoundly relevant....

Darin Stephens has worked with youth for over twenty-five years. The mission of Start to Stir flows from his experience of sharing faith with youth who are several generations removed from the Church. Darin is married to Joy and together they lead a team dedicated to teaching a new generation how to share the gospel in organic and winsome ways. Their teaching comes out of their own experience of l...

Dan Jennings attends a Global Methodist church, works as a creative designer, and writes books and loves Jesus. He is the author of The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley. He wrote that book twenty years ago and has just re-released it for its twentieth anniversary. I say Dan wrote the book, but actually he just compiled what John Wesley wrote in his journal about the plethora of miraculous e...

Kim Maas is an international speaker, author, revivalist, and prophetic voice, She is the leader of Kim Maas ministries (look it up at KimMaas.com ) which has a mission to train and equip the body of Christ, its leaders, emerging leaders and prophets. She is the author of Prophetic Community: God’s Call for All to Minister in His Gifts and  The Way of the Kingdom: Seizing the Moment for a Great Mo...

Mike Voigts is a great man of God, and he loves a lot of the same things I love – spiritual formation, the life of prayer, Asbury Seminary. He also loves HEB … more on that later. His focus is on personal and community spiritual direction … drawing connections between spiritual traditions in the global church. He served as a professor at Asbury SEminary for nine years, and now serves as the lead p...

David Chotka strikes me as a well educated mystic, which is a delightful combination. He has degrees from Regent College in Vancouver and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he studied under Gordon Fee. He served for three decades as a pastor and for all those years plus some he has traveled as an evangelist and teacher especially of prayer – healing prayer, spiritual discernment, the Lord’...

This one is good, people ... really dense. Lisa Allen has served on staff and on the teaching team with with Proverbs 31 Ministries, on staff with a large church, and as a coach and mentor to women leaders around the country. She is the author of Your Confidence Compass: From Self-Doubt to Self-Leadership,  which is all about  peeling back the parts of our ministry stories that are not true so we...

Dr. Lynn H. Cohick is a for-real Bible scholar – which is the way you say that when you’re not a for-real Bible scholar. Dr. Cohick is Professor of New Testament and also Director of Houston Theological Seminary at Houston Christian University. She served as President of the Institute of Biblical Research, as a senior translator on the New Living Bible Translation team. She serves on the Board of...

You will love this conversation with Dr. Jonathan Powers, a Levite all the way through. He has a great take on what it means to worship in Spirit and in truth. Dr. Powers serves as Associate Professor of Worship Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has (I’m quoting from the seminary website here) "a passion for the intersection of liturgy and spiritual formation in the life of the churc...

Today, we kick off a new year on The Art of Holiness with a conversation amongst ourselves* about evangelism. These seminary students did a FABULOUS job thinking through what it means to evangelize in the 21st century, and their conversation will be the first of several this semester on the topic. Glad to be back, and glad you're back with us.  * This semester, "us" includes Brandy...

Jonathan Edwards is our faithful, fun producer of The Art of Holiness podcasts, who listens to -- and loves! -- every single episode. Today, Jonathan and I think back on all the ones we produced this fall, discussing what stood out for us and what's worth listening to twice. 

Bill Kierce has served ten years as an itinerant evangelist, 22 years as pastor of a local church, 5 years as a congregational consultant, and is now serving as the President of the Francis Asbury Society. He has a whole lot of education in organizational leadership, including a PhD in that area of study from Eastern University. Bill’s heart now is promoting the gift of evangelism and the message...

Beth Felker Jones (PhD, Duke University) teaches theology at Northern Seminary, and loves to write for the church and the academy. She lives in the Chicagoland area with her husband Brian, four kids, two dogs, and Dwight, her theology cat. She was on The Art of Holiness a couple of years ago to talk about her really great work, Practicing Christian Doctrine. She has also published a book called “G...

Dr. Jason Vickers serves as professor of Christian theology and the Wesley Endowed Chair of Christian Theology at Truett Seminary, on the campus of Baylor University in Texas. He serves as a member of the Discipleship, Doctrine, and Just Ministry Commission of the Global Methodist Church. Ryan Barnett is an ordained elder in the GMC. Today, he serves on staff at Truett and as the Connectional Oper...

Dr. Ken Collins has been a professor at Asbury Theological Seminary since 1995 (which means he got there the same year I did). He has written and taught extensively on all facets of Wesleyan theology. His The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace was ground-breaking and established Collins as a preeminent theologian in the field. His work on holiness as "holy love” and gra...