The Asbury Herald, Summer 2009
Going green. The Asbury Herald is published three times per year and is mailed to more than 17,000 households. This 16-page, quarterly magazine (including annual report) is the official magazine of Asbury Theological Seminary and provides information on a wide variety of topics. It is also now being published in electronic format to reduce paper consumption and increase access! Please let us know if you are interested in receiving your Herald in an electronic format instead of print (advancement@asburyseminary.edu or 800.227.2879 ext. 2305). more...
The Asbury Herald, Spring 2009
Asbury Theological Seminary is preparing for an exciting new chapter in our history as we welcome our eighth president, Timothy Craig Tennent, Ph.D. The Board of Trustees unanimously elected Tennent, who has served as professor of world missions and Indian studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary since 1998. Tennent will start his new position July 1, 2009. His inauguration will be held November 9-11, 2009. more...
Asbury Herald, Winter 2009
"...As the Body of Christ, we hold in creative tension our particularity as well as our place. We are each created with unique gifts and skills, personalities and abilities — the understanding that God loves each one of us and calls us by name. As we enter into relationship with God through Christ, we step into the stream of those lives that have gone before, those lives that are yet to come. That is a powerful connection. More importantly, we are connected for a purpose — to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world.” (from page 5) more...
Asbury Herald, Fall 2008
"... Students move to Wilmore from every corner of the globe, often bringing spouses and children with them to start a new life among the Asbury community. The increasing number of students with families coupled with the deterioration of the existing facilities created a pressing need for new family student housing." (From page 6) more...
Asbury Herald, Summer 2008
"... Asbury Seminary recognizes that those in ministry need the same kind of continuing education that other professions encourage and enjoy. That's why we offer the Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) program. This course of study is an advanced, professional theological degree for ministers offering specialized tracks to equip pastors with a significantly higher level of competence than previous academic studies." (From page 4) more...
Asbury Herald, Winter 2008
"... Asbury Seminary now has a heritage of nearly 85 years. Yet in the truest sense, our heritage is much longer and deeper. Asbury has roots in the holiness revivals of the nineteenth century, but we go still farther back. Our theology of holiness has ancient Eastern Orthodox roots. But there was a still earlier time in our story. When after his baptism our Lord went into the wilderness to fast and pray, we were there. And when the writer of the book of Leviticus insisted that we must be holy because God is holy, we were there. Indeed, when Enoch walked with God until he enjoyed a most remarkable exit, we were there. That is, the heritage of Asbury Theological Seminary goes back, back, back a very long way." (From page 3) more...
Asbury Herald, Summer 2007 – Throughout the World
“. . . Our culture has become far more complicated. . . How do you carry the gospel “throughout the world” when the world is as vast, complex and self-contradictory as ours? And then there’s John 3:16. It tells us not only that God loves the world, but it also spells out more specifically and more inclusively God’s definition for the world: the word is whosoever. Here is a democracy of love beyond our comprehension. Some of us can love many people, and a few of us can love most people, but only God (or those wonderfully transformed by God) can love whosoever.” (From page 9) more...
Asbury Herald, Spring 2007 - Scriptural Holiness
"...But scriptural holiness isn’t manageable. Scriptural holiness, like Aslan, the Christ symbol in The Chronicles of Narnia, cannot be domesticated. We don't control scriptural holiness; it controls us. Just after we’ve testified to some new spiritual victory, we discover a whole new territory that is waiting to be taken for Christ." (from page 4) more...
Asbury Herald, Winter 2007 - Evangelistic Ministry
...Evangelism in its greatest simplicity is God’s powerful, saving activity at work through us for others as we share the good news of Jesus Christ. As Wesleyans, we believe the biblical account of salvation ultimately describes the restoration of a divine relationship in which “everything has become new” (2 Cor. 5:17, NRSV), allowing each person to “have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16) and be transformed into his likeness “from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 3:18). more...
Asbury Herald, Fall 2006 - Spirit Filled
“...What does it mean to be “Spirit-filled?” Addressing the role of the Spirit in the Church is an enormous task. But for the sake of pedagogy, I think that we can safely break this vast, and vastly important topic down into two general categories: (1) the dwelling of the Spirit among and in His people for the purpose of transforming them and (2) the Spirit's empowering of His people for service.” more...