We kick this week off with some housekeeping and logistics before diving into the mystery of God's grace, mercy, and justice.

Join me this year as I read through the Bible!

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Did the Bible live in me today?

Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?

Am I enjoying prayer?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

Where are you looking for Jesus? 

How are you guided and grounded by Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love?  

2025 Bible Reading Plan

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Can I be trusted?

Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?

Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

What would you say is at your center? 

How can you grow love in your soul and life? 

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?

Do I grumble or complain constantly?

Is Christ real to me?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

What does peace mean to you?

Who helps you feel peace?

How is God’s peace different than our peace? 

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

How do I spend my spare time?

Am I proud?

Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

How is fear limiting you right now? 

How can hope help you to anticipate and endure challenges that will arise.

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?

Am I defeated in any part of my life?

Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

How can Thanksgiving protect you from anxiety, worry, and despair?

How can you make time for thanksgiving everyday?`

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Do I pray about the money I spend?

Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?

Do I disobey God in anything?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

Where have you focused on the wrong thing?

What steps can you take towards God?

What steps can you take in community?

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?

Am I enjoying prayer?

When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

What is a step you can take to relying on your neighbors? 

How can you move from “what can I do about this” to “what can WE do about this?”

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?

Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?

Did the Bible live in me today?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text

What is the effect on the church when we, as Christians, tear down instead of building up one another? 

How have we been bearers of “bad news” instead of the Good News of Jesus Christ? 

How can we change our private and public witness to more faithfully spread the Good News of the love and grace of Jesus Christ?

Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. 

Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club

Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?

Do I  pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?

Can I be trusted?

Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text