Steve Bussey and I talk through non-negotiables of movements that move. We think specifically about traditions that come in the wake of the evangelical revival led by John Wesley. Today we look at an article that suggested some non-negotiables for the Salvation Army. 

Youtube - https://youtu.be/emfM5Sfgu48

Audio - https://andymilleriii.com/media/podcast

Apple -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-to-the-story-with-dr-andy-miller/id1569988895?uo=4

Here’s a link to Sword and Shield, a group mentioned on today’s podcast. 

WBS Conference on Human Sexuality

Does the statement “faithful Christians disagree on issues of human sexuality” line with historic witness of the Church? At WBS we are hosting a conference seeking to answer that question, entitled God’s Gift of Sexuality: Mere Opinion or Christian Dogma. We would love for you to attend online—February 10-11.

Top scholars from across the theological spectrum will present a comprehensive case that the Bible’s view of human sexuality is a necessary requirement of the Christian faith.

In-person attendance is limited, but we would love for you to attend online. Learn more and register now. 

Contender: Going Deeper in the Book of Jude - This all-inclusive small group study on the book of Jude is out now. Check it out on the course page: http://courses.andymilleriii.com

Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching - I’m excited to share some news with you.  Recently, I updated this PDF document and added a 45-minute teaching video with slides, explaining this tool. It's like a mini-course. If you sign up for my list, I will send this free resource to you. Sign up here - www.AndyMillerIII.com or Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by these two sponsors: 

Bill Roberts is a financial advisor, who has been serving the retirement planning and investment needs of individuals, families, non-profits, and churches for 25 years. He is a Certified Financial Planner and accredited investment fiduciary. Bill specializes in working with Salvation Army employees and officers by helping them realize their financial goals.  You can find out more about Bill’s business at www.WilliamHRoberts.com

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Wesley Biblical Seminary - Interested in going deeper in your faith? Check out our certificate programs, B.A., M.A.s, M.Div., and D.Min degrees. You will study with world-class faculty and the most racially diverse student body in the country. www.wbs.edu

Thanks too to Phil Laeger for my podcast music. You can find out about Phil's music at https://www.laeger.net

I am a big fan of Dr. David E. Clarke. He communicates with the clarity and passion that our society needs. Today we talk about how to develop strategies in working with narcissists and break the cycle of enabling relationships. We also talk a bit about how Andy Stanley’s recent comments might be indicative of these same problems. Check it out here. 

Youtube - https://youtu.be/LvRq_9Ev05c

Audio - https://andymilleriii.com/media/podcast

Apple -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-to-the-story-with-dr-andy-miller/id1569988895?uo=4

Dr. Clarke’s Website -

https://www.davideclarkephd.com/ 

Does the statement “faithful Christians disagree on issues of human sexuality” line with historic witness of the Church? At WBS we are hosting a conference seeking to answer that question, entitled God’s Gift of Sexuality: Mere Opinion or Christian Dogma. We would love for you to attend online—February 10-11.

Top scholars from across the theological spectrum will present a comprehensive case that the Bible’s view of human sexuality is a necessary requirement of the Christian faith.

In-person attendance is limited, but we would love for you to attend online. Learn more and register now. 

Contender: Going Deeper in the Book of Jude - This all-inclusive small group study on the book of Jude is out now. Check it out on the course page: http://courses.andymilleriii.com

Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching - I’m excited to share some news with you.  Recently, I updated this PDF document and added a 45-minute teaching video with slides, explaining this tool. It's like a mini-course. If you sign up for my list, I will send this free resource to you. Sign up here - www.AndyMillerIII.com or Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by these two sponsors: 

Keith Waters and his team at WPO Development do an amazing job helping non-profits and churches through mission planning studies, strategic plans, feasibility studies, and capital campaigns. We are honored to have Keith and WPO on the More to the Story team. You can find out more about them at www.wpodevelopment.com or touch base directly with Keith at [email protected].

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Wesley Biblical Seminary - Interested in going deeper in your faith? Check out our certificate programs, B.A., M.A.s, M.Div., and D.Min degrees. You will study with world-class faculty and the most racially diverse student body in the country. www.wbs.edu

Thanks too to Phil Laeger for my podcast music. You can find out about Phil's music at https://www.laeger.net

Rusty (R.R.) Reno is the editor of First Things Magazine and today on the podcast we talk about his new book, The End of Interpretation, which encourages believers to think about the role of the church through the centuries in the interpretive process. 

Youtube - https://youtu.be/grFauVF1dPU

Audio - https://andymilleriii.com/media/podcast

Apple -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-to-the-story-with-dr-andy-miller/id1569988895?uo=4

Link to The End of Interpretation -

http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-end-of-interpretation/353931

Contender: Going Deeper in the Book of Jude - This all-inclusive small group study on the book of Jude is out now. Check it out on the course page: http://courses.andymilleriii.com

Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching - I’m excited to share some news with you.  Recently, I updated this PDF document and added a 45-minute teaching video with slides, explaining this tool. It's like a mini-course. If you sign up for my list, I will send this free resource to you. Sign up here - www.AndyMillerIII.com or Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by these two sponsors: 

Bill Roberts is a financial advisor, who has been serving the retirement planning and investment needs of individuals, families, non-profits, and churches for 25 years. He is a Certified Financial Planner and accredited investment fiduciary. Bill specializes in working with Salvation Army employees and officers by helping them realize their financial goals.  You can find out more about Bill’s business at www.WilliamHRoberts.com

AND

Wesley Biblical Seminary - Interested in going deeper in your faith? Check out our certificate programs, B.A., M.A.s, M.Div., and D.Min degrees. You will study with world-class faculty and the most racially diverse student body in the country. www.wbs.edu

Thanks too to Phil Laeger for the new podcast music. You can find out about Phil's music at https://www.laeger.net

An update on what's happening with the More to the Story Podcast in 2023. For more details go to AndyMillerIII.com 

Is the God of the Old Testament nothing but a bully, a murderer, and an oppressor?

Many today--even within the church--seem to think so. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are we to reconcile the seemingly disconnected natures of God portrayed in the two testaments?

In his timely and readable book, Is God a Vindictive Bully?, apologist Paul Copan takes on some of the most vexing accusations of our time, including:

 • God is arrogant and jealous

 • God punishes people too harshly

 • God is guilty of ethnic cleansing

 • God oppresses women

 • God endorses slavery

 • Christianity causes violence

Copan not only answers the critics, he also shows how to read both the Old and New Testaments faithfully, seeing an unchanging, righteous, and loving God in both.

Youtube - https://youtu.be/vDiNnJO-jX4

Audio - https://andymilleriii.com/media/podcast

Apple -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-to-the-story-with-dr-andy-miller/id1569988895?uo=4

Link to Is God a Vindictive Bully?

http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/is-god-a-vindictive-bully/408700

Contender: Going Deeper in the Book of Jude - This all-inclusive small group study on the book of Jude is out now. Check it out on the course page: http://courses.andymilleriii.com

Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching - I’m excited to share some news with you.  Recently, I updated this PDF document and added a 45-minute teaching video with slides, explaining this tool. It's like a mini-course. If you sign up for my list, I will send this free resource to you. Sign up here - www.AndyMillerIII.com or Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by these two sponsors: 

Keith Waters and his team at WPO Development do an amazing job helping non-profits and churches through mission planning studies, strategic plans, feasibility studies, and capital campaigns. We are honored to have Keith and WPO on the More to the Story team. You can find out more about them at www.wpodevelopment.com or touch base directly with Keith at [email protected].

AND

Wesley Biblical Seminary - Interested in going deeper in your faith? Check out our certificate programs, B.A., M.A.s, M.Div., and D.Min degrees. You will study with world-class faculty and the most racially diverse student body in the country. www.wbs.edu

Thanks too to Phil Laeger for the new podcast music. You can find out about Phil's music at https://www.laeger.net

Every generation faces the temptation to wander from orthodoxy—to seek out the jolt that comes with false teaching, and to drift with cultural currents. And so every generation must be awakened again to the thrill of orthodoxy, and experience the astonishment that comes from stumbling afresh upon the electrifying paradoxes at the heart of the Christian faith.

In The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Trevin Wax turns the tables on those who believe Christian teaching is narrow and outdated. Returning to the church's creeds, he explains what orthodoxy is and why we can have proper confidence in it, and lays out common ways we can stray from it. By showing how heresies are always actually narrower than orthodoxy—taking one aspect of the truth and wielding it as a weapon against others—Wax beckons us away from the broad road that ultimately proves bland and boring, and toward the straight and narrow path, where true adventure can be found.

Youtube - https://youtu.be/bx0MsDWQi1g

Audio - https://andymilleriii.com/media/podcast

Apple -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-to-the-story-with-dr-andy-miller/id1569988895?uo=4

Contender: Going Deeper in the Book of Jude - This all-inclusive small group study on the book of Jude is out now. Check it out on the course page: http://courses.andymilleriii.com

Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching - I’m excited to share some news with you.  Recently, I updated this PDF document and added a 45-minute teaching video with slides, explaining this tool. It's like a mini-course. If you sign up for my list, I will send this free resource to you. Sign up here - www.AndyMillerIII.com or Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by these two sponsors: 

Bill Roberts is a financial advisor, who has been serving the retirement planning and investment needs of individuals, families, non-profits, and churches for 25 years. He is a Certified Financial Planner and accredited investment fiduciary. Bill specializes in working with Salvation Army employees and officers by helping them realize their financial goals.  You can find out more about Bill’s business at www.WilliamHRoberts.com

AND

Wesley Biblical Seminary - Interested in going deeper in your faith? Check out our certificate programs, B.A., M.A.s, M.Div., and D.Min degrees. You will study with world-class faculty and the most racially diverse student body in the country. www.wbs.edu

Thanks too to Phil Laeger for the new podcast music. You can find out about Phil's music at https://www.laeger.net

As Christians we believe in miracles because we affirm the resurrection of Jesus. Yet, often we only offer lip service to this belief. J.P. Moreland offers a few practical, philosophical, and theological words for experiencing miracles. 

Youtube - https://youtu.be/RQNMSW83PaQ

Audio - https://andymilleriii.com/media/podcast

Apple -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-to-the-story-with-dr-andy-miller/id1569988895?uo=4

Contender: Going Deeper in the Book of Jude - This all-inclusive small group study on the book of Jude is out now. Check it out on the course page: http://courses.andymilleriii.com

Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching - I’m excited to share some news with you.  Recently, I updated this PDF document and added a 45-minute teaching video with slides, explaining this tool. It's like a mini-course. If you sign up for my list, I will send this free resource to you. Sign up here - www.AndyMillerIII.com or Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by these two sponsors: 

Keith Waters and his team at WPO Development do an amazing job helping non-profits and churches through mission planning studies, strategic plans, feasibility studies, and capital campaigns. We are honored to have Keith and WPO on the More to the Story team. You can find out more about them at www.wpodevelopment.com or touch base directly with Keith at [email protected].

AND

Wesley Biblical Seminary - Interested in going deeper in your faith? Check out our certificate programs, B.A., M.A.s, M.Div., and D.Min degrees. You will study with world-class faculty and the most racially diverse student body in the country. www.wbs.edu

Thanks too to Phil Laeger for the new podcast music. You can find out about Phil's music at https://www.laeger.net

2022 has been an eventful year on the Pan-Wesleyan Movement. There have been many stories in 2022: Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Will Smith’s slap, Elon Musk buying Twitter, and answered prayer of the Dobbs decision to name a few.  I have put together a list of the top ten stories of the year connected to the broader Pan-Wesleyan movement. 

Check on this list in podcast form here: Audio and YouTube. 

10. Wesley House of Studies - Baylor 

An R1 university in the Baptist tradition adds a new emphasis for training students in the Wesleyan tradition. Jason Vickers is appointed as the Billy Abraham Chair for this program.

9. Asbury Theological Seminary Celebrates 100 Years 

Henry Clay Morrison ‘walked across the street’ to start ATS 100 years ago this year.

8. Growth of Smaller Methodist Denominations 

Affiliate Initiative from the Congregational Methodist Church

Association of Independent Methodist

7. Denominations Grapple with Woke-ism 

For example, see this podcast.

6. African Bishops Align with Liberal UMC  

There is ‘more to the story,’ but check out this story at People Need Jesus and Juicy Ecumenism

5. The Growth of WBS 

As many historic seminaries have struggled with financial challenges and have had to liquidate assets, Wesley Biblical Seminary has set records while retaining its commitment to the inerrancy of scripture and an emphasis on the doctrine of entire sanctification. See President Matt Ayars’ CT editorial here.

www.wbs.edu

4. The Global Methodist Church is Born, May 1, 2022 

May 1, 2022 marked the birth of what will likely become the largest Wesleyan Denomination. See Keith Boyette’s article here. 

See my conversations with Keith Boyette, Rob Renfro, Jeff Greenway and Mike Lowry, and Brain Jones. 

3. 2200 Congregations Exit the UMC 

See this series of tweets from Mark Tooley

2.  The Next Methodism Summit  

60 Wesleyan scholars came together in January to produce a document called The Faith Once For All Delivered: A Wesleyan Witness. 

#1. Our Great Redeemer’s Praise Hymnal 

The reason I see this publication as number one is because it has the potential to to unite the Pan-Weslayn movement through a shared worship resource. When many Wesleyan institutions are struggling, this resources shares important theological emphases and distinctives from many Wesleyan denomination.   The publication will likely have a wider and deeper impact than any of the above stories because it will physically and spiritually mark Wesleyan mission, theology, and worship for decades. Check out this conversation with Jonathan Powers for more. Get a copy here.

The new hymnal - Our Great Redeemer’s Praise – is out! Now that this hymnal is available, I had Jonathan Powers on the podcast to talk about it again. Don’t miss this important resource. 

Youtube - https://youtu.be/pEvJFOCBic8

Audio - https://andymilleriii.com/media/podcast

Apple -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-to-the-story-with-dr-andy-miller/id1569988895?uo=4

Our Great Redeemer’s Praise Hymnal - https://ourgreatredeemerspraise.com/

Contender: Going Deeper in the Book of Jude - This all-inclusive small group study on the book of Jude is out now. Check it out on the course page: http://courses.andymilleriii.com

Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching - I’m excited to share some news with you.  Recently, I updated this PDF document and added a 45-minute teaching video with slides, explaining this tool. It's like a mini-course. If you sign up for my list, I will send this free resource to you. Sign up here - www.AndyMillerIII.com or Five Steps to Deeper Teaching and Preaching. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by these two sponsors: 

Bill Roberts is a financial advisor, who has been serving the retirement planning and investment needs of individuals, families, non-profits, and churches for 25 years. He is a Certified Financial Planner and accredited investment fiduciary. Bill specializes in working with Salvation Army employees and officers by helping them realize their financial goals.  You can find out more about Bill’s business at www.WilliamHRoberts.com

AND

Wesley Biblical Seminary - Interested in going deeper in your faith? Check out our certificate programs, B.A., M.A.s, M.Div., and D.Min degrees. You will study with world-class faculty and the most racially diverse student body in the country. www.wbs.edu

Thanks too to Phil Laeger for the new podcast music. You can find out about Phil's music at https://www.laeger.net

I recorded this podcast reflecting on a G.K. Chesterton essay, Ezekiel 37, and some contemporary events connected to the so-called ‘Respect for Marriage Act.’