The Art of Holiness

This week, you’ll listen in as we talk with three friends about the love of God. Two you’ve heard from before. Jorge Acevedo is co-pastor of Grace Church in Cape Coral, Florida, and Tom Tanner is the pastor of Riverstone Church in Kennesaw, Georgia. Our third guest is new to The Art of Holiness. Jerry Coleman is with The Francis Asbury Society in Wilmore, Kentucky. In these three conversations, we...

Mark Swayze is a husband, father, pastor, a worship leader and someone we are all learning from year in and year out! We are excited to host Mark on the podcast today as we catch up with him at the New Room Conference in 2021. Mark is the pastor of Rebelbase, the youth pastor at Woodlands Methodist Church in Woodlands, Texas. Grab some coffee and enjoy this blessings of an episode! 

J.D. is an author, speaker, thought-leader, and is the "Sower-in-Chief" at Seedbed (and New Room). Formerly the Dean of Chapel at Asbury Theological Seminary, J.D. founded Seedbed in 2012 to begin the work of sowing for a great Awakening. He writes daily to a community of thousands via the Seedbed Daily Text.

We wanted to talk to Mark Nysewander because he wants to talk about revival. His book, Revival Rising, is an inspiring look at the ingredients of revival. Over several decades, he has ministered as an evangelist, missionary, church planter, and pastor. He served as the teaching pastor at RiverStone Church in Kennesaw, Georgia until he retired (he may not know the meaning of the word!), after which...

Today, it's us. Pierce and Carolyn talk like family about how prayer is working for them right now, and about the kinds of prayer we are putting into the toolbox to help build a bridge through the trauma of our collective reality. Pierce shares his journey into using a prayer language to deepen faith, and Carolyn discusses options for helping to discern beyond emotion into the mind of Christ....

Dr. Randy Clark is an international itinerant minister birthed from a 4-day meeting in Canada, known to many as the "Toronto Blessing." Randy is the founder of Global Awakening, a teaching, healing, and impartation ministry that crosses denominational lines. An in-demand international speaker, he leads the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening and travels extensively for conferences, int...

Peter and Esther Pereira are the founding Directors of Hope for Today, an evangelistic ministry serving southeast Asia. Through their leadership and vision, Hope for Today teams serve soy milk to children, meals to the poorest of the poor, education and training to women, and the gospel to some of the least reached people groups in southeast Asia. Peter’s partners with International Leadership Ins...

Maxie D. Dunnam is the former president and chancellor of Asbury Theological Seminary. He is now Senior Pastor Emeritus and Executive Director of CCGlobal at Christ United Methodist Church in Memphis. Dr. Dunnam is a powerful and prolific writer, having authored more than forty books, including the Workbook of Living Prayer, which sold more than one million copies.

Dr. Michael Beck is Director of Re-Missioning for Fresh Expressions US, Cultivator of Fresh Expressions for the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, and adjunct professor for the Doctor of Ministry program at United Theological Seminary. Michael serves as co-pastor of Wildwood United Methodist Church with his wife Jill, where they direct addiction recovery programs, a jail ministry,...

Angel Davis is a Christian psychotherapist who practices in Athens, Ga. For the last ten years or so, she has focused almost exclusively on healing prayer sessions, and has a tremendous gift of healing prayer. She is also the author of The Perfecting Storm, a solid book on how one person working under the power of the Holy Spirit can transform a bad marriage into a flourishing one. Angel's po...

Dr. Craig Keener is a professor at Asbury Theological Seminary. With degrees from an Assemblies of God seminary and Duke University, Dr. Keener is that marvelous mix of Spirit-filled faith and academic rigor. His two-book study of miracles is chock-full of stats and first-person stories from all over the world (you owe it to yourself to read it). Today, we'll hear how his interest in miracles...

We are so pleased to share this conversation with Dr. David Watson, Academic Dean at United Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. David teaches New Testament, Greek, courses in church renewal and courses in Bible and disability. In this podcast, we talk with him about his experiences in Cuba and the revival percolating there. He also shares from his heart and from deep personal experience how the Church is en...

Host Rev. Carolyn Moore and Rev. Pierce Drake get back together to take a look at what's ahead for this year in front of us. 2020 was well 2020 in so many ways, but in the midst of it we believe Jesus was leading, guiding, revealing, refining and teaching us. Now the question becomes how does what we walked through help us walk ahead? We are excited to be back with you all and looking forward...

Rev. Adam Weber is the founder and lead pastor of Embrace, a multi-site church based out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Author of Talking With God, Adam now has a new book -- Love Has A Name -- about how to love like Jesus loves. In this conversation we explore love and outreach as ways of practically expressing our call to holiness. Adam gets honest about his own spiritual journey and tells a grea...

Rica McRoy was born into a devout and loving Hindu home. She emigrated from India to America as a toddler and had a head-on collision with the grace of Jesus Christ at the age of twenty-seven. She lives with her husband, Spike, and three children in Huntsville, Alabama, where she is a practicing optometrist and founding partner of R City Eye Care. Rica’s passion is for people of every nation, trib...

Today, we get to explore supernatural ministry, world missions, and orthodox faith with Dr. Tim Tennent, president of Asbury Theological Seminary. Dr. Tennent has multiple books to his credit on world missions and world Christianity. His most recent work, For the Body, explores an orthodox understanding of human sexualitly and will be a much-needed resource for the Church. Beyond his significant c...

Aaron and Amy Graham have been planting churches and reaching cities for nearly two decades. After planting in Boston, they moved to Washington, DC to plant District Church -- a church with a commitment to doing justice in the nation's capital. District Church is remarkably diverse, with 74 nations and 49 states represented in its congregation. Aaron has been named one of Washingtonian Magazi...

Matt Reynolds has a beautiful story to tell of how God used New Room, his own church, and a moment at the kitchen table to birth a remarkably fruitful and fresh  ministry that is speaking life, health and Holy Spirit into the Church. Matt Reynolds is the founder and President of Spirit & Truth, an equipping ministry designed to serve churches that are ready to go beyond "church-as-a-busin...

This week, we have the joy of talking with one of our favorite people, Dr. Kevin Watson. Kevin is Assistant Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. He is making a remarkable impact on Wesleyan discipleship especially through two books, The Class Meeting and The Band Meeting. Both are design...

Dr. Alec Rowlands is the senior pastor of Westgate Chapel in Edmonds, Washington. Westgate is a marvelously alive and missional, non-denominational and multi-ethnic congregation that moves in the gifts of the Spirit in gracious and fruitful ways. Alec and his wife, Rita, have two daughters who are both on staff at Westgate along with their spouses, so ministry for the Rowlands is truly a family af...

After serving for a season on staff at 12Stone Church in Atlanta, Kevin Queen was tapped in 2018 to lead CrossPoint Church in Nashville, Tennessee — one of the largest churches in an area with a lot of large churches. But we’re not interviewing Kevin because he leads a large church. We’re talking with him because he passionately goes after a big God. Kevin has a great story to tell about studying...

Rev. Miriam Swanson is the Global Student Mission Leader at Fusion, a student mission movement that originates in the UK but now with vision for spreading throughout the U.S. She is recently married and has relocated to Florida, where she continues to develop her vision for reaching students through Fusion. Miriam is an anointed speaker and evangelist who has shared her message of holiness and hop...

Lo Alaman is a spoken word poet, writer, preacher, and all-around faithful man of God who has become a great friend to all of us in the New Room Network. Lo's day job is as Director of Community Life at The Harvest Church in The Woodlands, Texas, but his passion and gift is bringing words to life (you need to watch his wedding poem on YouTube ... its glorious). His most recent creative work i...

Dr. Tom Tanner has been part of the Riverstone family since its inception in 1999. He now leads Riverstone as the senior pastor, as well as a church-planting network called Transformation. As the long-time director of the UGA Wesley Foundation, Tom's spiritual influence over a generation of pastors is profound, and he shares his experience of intergenerational encouragement (spoiler alert: it...

Dr. Steve Seamands has spoken healing, theology and prayer into countless lives over a lifetime of serving Christ. Seamands 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 has authored se...