The Art of Holiness

Caleb Campbell has been a pastor at Desert Springs Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona, since 2006 and lead pastor since 2015. He is a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary and serves as the regional director for the Surge Network. Today, we’re talking to him about a passion of his that syncs with this season. Caleb has just released a book called Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian...

This is Lo's second time on our podcast, but he brings a whole new subject to the table this time. Urban Hymnal is a very cool project unfolding in the heart of Houston, Texas. It is a collection of (hundreds, yall!) creatives and young adults gathering weekly for worship and community. Lo and the design team have developed a beautiful structure to hang it all on, so there is a lot to learn h...

Dr. Elesha Coffman is a professor at Baylor University and the author of several books … including her latest,  Turning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith. I want to thank Scot McKnight for his review of this one, which got me very interested. So let’s talk history and Holy Spirit … 

This is one of those conversations I just wanted to have because I don’t know a lot of house church pastors and what they do seems like a whole other world to me and I want to know more. So today, we’re interviewing Jeremy and Jenny Auvil, who had a remarkably strong experience as pastors of a house church in Alabama. Jeremy is currently serving as the Lead Pastor of Clearbranch Methodist, a GMC c...

Oops! Uploaded the wrong "Bryan Loritts" earlier this week, so let's try this again. Dr. Loritts has written a deep and inviting book about the art of friendship. In an age when we are all scattered, smothered and covered (thank you, Waffle House, for that imagery), it is good to be reminded of the importance of being unified, loving, and full of grace. I hope you find much to inspi...

Dr. Bryan Loritts is a prolific writer, dynamic preacher, and strong advocate for multiethnic communities of faith. We've talked with him before on The Art of Holiness. This time, we have a great conversation around his latest book, Enduring Friendships: : Sticking Together in An Age of Unfriending.  It is a great conversation, well timed for a season when division is is our go-to. Here, we d...

Great conversation! Dr. Matt Friedeman has been a professor at Wesley Biblical Seminary since 1987, where he teaches evangelism and discipleship. He is the author of The 5Q Method of Discipleship, The Doctrine of Good Works, and Discipleship in the Home … all of which we’ll talk about today. Matt is also an ordained Nazarene minister who serves as the founding pastor of Day Spring Community Church...

Dan Wilt is an author, speaker, worship leader, song writer, and student of the Holy Spirit. He is part of both the Anglican Communion and the Vineyard Church and has taught in conferences, university settings, seminaries, and churches across streams of the Body of Christ. He is part of the Seedbed and New Room families and has published several books through them, the latest of which is all about...

Mark Tooley is brings a wealth of real-world experience to his post as president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and editor of IRD’s foreign policy and national security journal, Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy. He worked eight years for the Central Intelligence Agency and is a graduate of Georgetown University. He founded UMAction, a subset of IRD. H...

Kevin Watson is a professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, based at their Tulsa campus. Before going to Asbury, he taught at Candler School of Theology, where he was awarded tenure, and Seattle Pacific. He has written some very important books for our tribe; Blueprint for Discipleship ,  The Class Meeting,  and The Band Meeting ; and this month he publishes Doctrine, Spirit and Discipline . Way b...

Dr. Sterling Allen currently serves as the Director of Music and Worship Arts at Good Shepherd Global Methodist Church in Cypress, Texas. He holds multiple degrees in music, including Doctor of Worship in liturgics and hymnology from the Webber Institute in Florida. He has sung as an operatic baritone internationally and is a recognized Charles Wesley Scholar specializing in soteriological-lyrical...

This conversation is close to my heart because these are people I dearly love. Laura Curry is a sister in the faith who has a beautiful story of recovery and redemption. Joining me in this interview is my dear son-in-the-faith, Christopher Goss (who also happens to be the artist responsible for the theme music on AoH). There's a lot of meat here for those hungry to know more about how the 12...

Justin Gravitt is dedicated to making disciples and it shows. You can find him at JustinGravitt.com , and he is also on board with The Navigators. He has planted campus ministries and developed disciplemaking resources. He has served on mission in southeast Asia, and lives to cultivate disciple making cultures. His book, The Foundation of a Disciplemaking Culture, comes out later this year. Today...

Dr. Cheryl Bridges Johns is a visiting professor of Pentecostal Studies at United Theological Seminary. She is the author of four fantastic books, the most recent of which we will discuss today -- Re-enchanting the Text: Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious . She has spent a lifetime in the academic world but somehow has an incredible read on culture and a tremendous sensitiv...

I love introducing you to very cool people I know, and Max and Jim are among the very coolest. Max served as a pastor in Florida and Hawaii for 26 years prior to becoming president and CEO of TMS Global. We've heard from him before on The Art of Holiness so go find that podcast so you can learn about his book, Focusing My Gaze, and his podcast called Brilliant Gaze. Max is stepping down from...

Dr. Carmen Imes is the Associate Professor of Old Testament at Biola University in La Mirada, California. She is a prolific and creative scholarly writer, having written everything from a beautifully illustrated version of the Psalms in Hebrew, to an illustrated Exodus in Hebrew. She has written on praying the Psalms in Hebrew, and among her latest books are two we will talk about more today … Bea...

MaryLou Reece has owned a successful construction company, raised three thriving kids, joined her husband in ministry, and then walked with him into the episcopacy when Scott Jones was consecrated Bishop in the United Methodist Church. They have since contended faithfully for orthodox Christianity both within and beyond their denomination. They now serve together in the Global Methodist Church and...

Mark Webb was a United Methodist for more than four decades, where he served as pastor, district superintendent and bishop, before moving into the Global Methodist Church to become one of two active bishops in this new movement that we call the GMC. He and Bishop Scott Jones are reshaping how we understand what Methodists call the episcopacy, and that’s what we talk about in this episode. We’ll ta...

In February, 2023, Zach Meerkreebs -- writer, speaker, & Pastor in Residence at Asbury University -- preached a solid but "normal" message at a morning chapel service at AU. Chapel was dismissed and most students moved on to class ... but some lingered to reflect on the message and what God was doing in their lives. By that afternoon, the chapel was beginning to fill up again with st...

Ivan Filby is one of my favorite people in the world, He has a prophetic gift that bears such good fruit, and he has lived most of his call at a unique intersection of church, academia, and the business world. Today, he serves as the CEO of Seedbed (that's the publishing house birthed by Asbury that has published most of my books, so yeah ... I'm a fan). I love this conversation about pu...

Suzanne Nicholson is a professor at Asbury University. She received her Ph. D. in New Testament Studies from the University of Durham in England, an M.Div. at Asbury Theological Seminary, and a B.A., magna cum laude, in journalism from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Nicholson is an elder in the Global Methodist Church, and in this podcast she talks to us about how Wesleyans read the Bible. Its a...

Dr. Ryan Danker is the Director of the John Wesley Institute, which is part of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Danker is an author, historian, and Wesley scholar committed to the Wesleyan vision. He has some great books, like  Wesley and the Anglicans: Political Division in Early Evangelicalism; and edited another one on  Exploring a Wesleyan Political Theology . He has published articles...

This is a special episode. Its just Pierce and Carolyn, talking about the last three years of podcasting together, and about the nature of transitions. This will be Pierce's last episode on AoH. The podcast continues after this week with Carolyn, some occasional co-hosts and a fresh focus on Spirit-filled Methodism.  So much gratitude for Pierce and his idea to do this together ... 

Friends, this is a deep and beautiful conversation with a man who has found faith in the fire and who has borne such fruit for the Kingdom. Rich Wilson is the founder of the Fusion Movement, reaching college students for Christ in the UK and US. You'll appreciate Rich's story and and the depth of his wisdom. And this is the last of our New Room 2023 podcasts ... we didn't want you t...

Pete Hughes is the founding pastor of King's Cross Church in London, and one of the best thought leaders on the emerging Church -- renewal, revival, planting ... all of it. Pierce does this interview with Pete at the 2023 New Room Conference and we're sharing it here to get you ready for this year's New Room Conference. If you don't have your tickets yet, get 'em here .