The Art of Holiness

Ryan Barnett serves on the teaching staff of Truett Theological Seminary (Baylor University), and with the leadership team of the Mid-Texas Annual Conference of the Global Methodist Church. He spent twenty years as a local pastor and learned a lot about evangelism by growing congregations that were focused on winning those who had not yet professed faith in Jesus Christ. In his zeal for seeing the Global Methodist Church become more than a migration of churches from one tribe to another, he h...

David Chotka strikes me as a well educated mystic, which is a delightful combination. He has degrees from Regent College in Vancouver and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he studied under Gordon Fee. He served for three decades as a pastor and for all those years plus some he has traveled as an evangelist and teacher especially of prayer – healing prayer, spiritual discernment, the Lord’s prayer, and using our spiritual gifts. To learn more about him, go to spiritequip.com. He has w...

Dr. Lynn H. Cohick is a for-real Bible scholar – which is the way you say that when you’re not a for-real Bible scholar. Dr. Cohick is Professor of New Testament and also Director of Houston Theological Seminary at Houston Christian University.She served as President of the Institute of Biblical Research, as a senior translator on the New Living Bible Translation team. She serves on the Board of Trustees at Biola University and as the founder and President of Center for Women in Leadership. S...

Today, we kick off a new year on The Art of Holiness with a conversation amongst ourselves* about evangelism. These seminary students did a FABULOUS job thinking through what it means to evangelize in the 21st century, and their conversation will be the first of several this semester on the topic. Glad to be back, and glad you're back with us. * This semester, "us" includes Brandy Lee and Katherine Reiley. Our good friend, Taylor Williams, has concluded her time on AoH. We will miss hav...

Bill Kierce has served ten years as an itinerant evangelist, 22 years as pastor of a local church, 5 years as a congregational consultant, and is now serving as the President of the Francis Asbury Society. He has a whole lot of education in organizational leadership, including a PhD in that area of study from Eastern University. Bill’s heart now is promoting the gift of evangelism and the message of scriptural holiness … and today, that’s the heart of our conversation. Got a passion for evang...

Dr. Jason Vickers serves as professor of Christian theology and the Wesley Endowed Chair of Christian Theology at Truett Seminary, on the campus of Baylor University in Texas. He serves as a member of the Discipleship, Doctrine, and Just Ministry Commission of the Global Methodist Church. Ryan Barnett is an ordained elder in the GMC. Today, he serves on staff at Truett and as the Connectional Operational Officer (COO) of the MidTexas Conference of the Global Methodist Church. Together, Ryan a...

Dr. Arnold is the Paul S. Amos Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary. He joined the faculty of Asbury my freshman year, so we have grown up at Asbury together. He has written extensively on the Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern Culture. Look for his excellent book, Introduction to the Old Testament, if you want to get a start on his scholarship. He is currently writing a two-volume commentary on Deuteronomy, the first half of which was released in 2022....