The pastor visited Tweetsie on Friday, but much of the time he was thinking about our 162nd Anniversary, and about the epistle lesson, Romans 8:26-39.

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A Short History of the Moravian Church was written in 1957 by the Right Rev. Herbert Spaugh. It was initially updated in 1996 by the Rev. Dr. Worth Green, and revised several times since. Posted to the web immediately after its revision, it has been viewed by as many as 1,200 people in a single month. It is a work in progress. Please contact Dr. Green with any corrections or suggestions for improvement.

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Life is a series of problems. The way that we handle these problems determines the quality and the hopefulness of the life that we lead. Dr. Scott Peck puts it like this. He says: “Life is hard. But as soon as we realize that life is hard, life ceases to be as hard, because we realize life is hard.”

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According to Carl Jung, the dream is:

…a fragment of involuntary psychic activity, just conscious enough to be reproducible in the waking state. {Jung, Carl G., trans. R.F.C. Hull, Dreams. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974, p. 68.}

The dream is an event in the unconscious mind that the conscious mind can, at times, just barely reproduce. The question remains: Is a dream a message from the unconscious mind directed to the conscious mind? Is it ever the case that a dream is from God? (more…)

Evangelism is a task for all Christians. Every individual and every church develops habits of witness. This paper on evangelism in the Moravian tradition was written in 1989 as a partial fulfillment of Dr. Green’s Doctor of Ministry degree at McCormick Theological Seminary. (1 of 2) (more…)

Evangelism is a task for all Christians. Every individual and every church develops habits of witness. This paper on evangelism in the Moravian tradition was written in 1989 as a partial fulfillment of Dr. Green’s Doctor of Ministry degree at McCormick Theological Seminary. (2 of 2) (more…)