REV. DR. JOHN HARNISH PUBLISHES HIS BOOK ON E. STANLEY JONES
If you want to learn from a noted missionary with connections in the Asbury community, Thirty Days With E. Stanley Jones: Global Preacher, Social Justice Prophet is the book for you! Written by an alum of the seminary, it recounts a number of stories from the life of E. Stanley Jones. Rev. Dr. Harnish has this to say about his book, which comes out in February: “My purpose is to show Jones’ balance between his evangelical faith and his commitment to social justice, particularly his passion for racial equality. It’s a balance we desperately need today. It includes a couple chapters about his early days, and particularly his time at Asbury College. Those of us who were at Asbury Seminary in 1969 remember his last visit to Wilmore when he preached in the seminary chapel, just a few years before his death.” The book also includes contributions from other Asbury seminary grads: Steve Harper, Meeli Tankler, former President Maxie Dunnam and professor Robert Tuttle.
Here is an excerpt from the publisher:
“The Rev. Dr. John E. Harnish, himself a noted Christian educator, writer and pastor, has written 30 short, inspiring true stories from Jones’ life and the people that he touched, that illustrate the timeless, loving wisdom that he believed lay at the core of Christianity. The stories can be read as daily devotionals or could be discussed with friends or within small groups, Sunday schools and congregations. The book includes a complete discussion guide as well as links to introductory videos by Harnish that can be used to spark discussion in your group.”
To learn more, or to purchase/preorder the book, please see Front Edge Publishing or Amazon.
NEW BOOK FROM CHAPLAIN DIXEY R. BEHNKEN
Marked By Miracles presents a detailed account of modern day Christ follower Dixey Behnken’s adventures around the globe both following – and discovering – the miraculous beauty of God’s extraordinary power and grace.
Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) and Therapist Dixey Behnken shares joy, grief, awakening and victory in his personal walk with God as he retells inspiring, heart-stopping life stories of biblical proportion. Recounting harrowing events in which God appeared in real, raw and unmistakable ways (even escaping death); Dixey invites us behind the pastoral curtain to discover the details of what led to body, mind and soul transformations in himself and countless others who were present or heard the retelling after. More than a sermon, Marked By Miracles is a long drink of cool water for the spirit – captivating the reader by the power of God’s glory and goodness.
Please see here for more information, or to order the book.
TWO BOOKS FROM THE PEN OF DR. KATHRYN G. HENDERSHOT
Dr. Hendershot is an alum of both AU and ATS. She served as the Director of Cross-Cultural Experience at AU 2009-2015. Her passion for spreading the word through writing, speaking, teaching, and praying with others has never wavered. She and John (AU 1979) have been married 56 years and enjoy their three married children and five grandchildren. Dr. Hendershot has published two books in recent years, both of which can be found on Amazon and are described below.
Synopsis of A Jubilee Journey
A Jubilee Journey is a biographical account describing the decade of Kathryn’s 50s. The Lord impressed her that her 50th year of life would not only be a year of jubilee, but the beginning of a decade of jubilee. Indeed, within that decade He opened the doors for her to serve on a pastoral team for three years, minister through mission assignments in ten countries on five continents, and complete a Doctorate in Missiology. You are invited to join in the celebration of the Lord working through an everyday ordinary life.
Synopsis of E. Stanley Jones Had A Wife (Revised Edition)
Mabel Lossing Jones pioneered as an evangelist in the early to mid-1900s. Her teaching career began in Clayton, Iowa’s small country school. She later accepted a position at the University of Iowa before being commissioned to India in 1904 by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. Her first assignments included the Khandwa Girls’ Orphanage and the Lal Bagh School in Lucknow, India where she met E. Stanley Jones. In June of 1909 the British colonial government sought her out to start a teacher-training school in Hawa Bagh. After a brief furlough she returned to India and married E. Stanley Jones in 1911.
This extraordinary woman corresponded regularly with Mahatma Ghandi on matters of education and discipline. She sat on the Municipal Council of Sitapur with ten Hindu men and ten Muslim men for 20 years, and served on several prestigious Executive Boards in North India.
Mabel’s egalitarian worldview blinded her to gender, class, age, or race. The government requested that she personally establish the first boys’ school to be taught by women, which impacted the educational system in all of India. Her average of 21 handwritten letters a day raised scholarships for thousands of boys, and built a fund of half a million dollars, of which the interest continues to care for them today.
This Revised Edition is a more compact, easy-reading rendition of her dissertation.
REV. DR. DENNIS WAYMAN, ’72, EXPLORES THE PROBLEMATIC SIDE OF DISCIPLESHIP
Following up on his book Discipleship Ecosystem, Denny Wayman focuses not on producing the Fruit of the Spirit but the Deadly Sins. Serving the Free Methodist Church of Santa Barbara for 40 years, Dr. Wayman has spent his life focusing on human behavior. “Having a tremendous respect and love for people, I knew that I was to spend my life in service to my fellow humans. To do so I not only earned my college degree in Psychology at Greenville University, but also my post graduate degrees focusing on educational psychology in my MDiv at Asbury and my doctorate in pastoral counseling at Fuller.” Noting that it was in his doctoral work that he became trained in systems, Wayman became focused on the ways churches “reflect an ecological system, producing the expected fruit of each type of life.”
Releasing his observations of how a church develops the fruit of love, peace, patience and kindness, he was requested by a study group in Boston led by Harvard Divinity instructor, Ethan Goodnight, to say more about how the soil in which we are rooted determines our fruit. Wayman noted: “Toxic soil will not produce love or peace let alone patience or kindness, but rather the 7 Deadly sins of Pride, Greed, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth. It is my desire to reveal to all of us the soil out of which this grows so that we can purify it much like we purify contaminated soil in the physical world.”
Published by Light and Life, the book is available here: https://freemethodistbooks.com/product/toxic-discipleship or as a set with the first book here: https://freemethodistbooks.com/product/discipleship-ecosystem-bundle