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THE PARABLE OF THE PEAR TREE
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Ben Witherington
Our Asbury student Scott Cozart told the following parable in chapel this morning. A father wanted to teach his four sons the lesson of not judging something or someone too quickly, and so he called his four sons together and said “I have a task for you. I want you, my eldest son to go…
ASBURY NAMES NEW PRESIDENT
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Ben Witherington
ASBURY SEMINARY ELECTS NEW PRESIDENTWILMORE, Ky. (Feb. 17, 2009) – Timothy Craig Tennent, Ph.D., of Ipswich, Mass., has been elected the eighth president of Asbury Theological Seminary by the Board of Trustees. Asbury Theological Seminary, a private graduate school in the Wesleyan tradition with an enrollment of more than 1600 students, offers master’s and doctorate…
FROM THE CATATONIC TO THE CATASTROPHIC
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Ben Witherington
Ah to be a cat….. they rule their own little world and blissfully ignore all the dangers. And worse, they know they rule their owners. I was listening to Vermont radio and a comedian came on and told the following story: “Husbands if you want to find out whether your wife on Valentine’s loves you…
FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, BE LIKE A STING
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Ben Witherington
When I went to the University of Durham there was a young man who had been playing in jazz clubs in Newcastle, the next train stop north and had been an English teacher. His name was Gordon Summner, and he had a magic voice and played a mean bass as well. He was discovered by…
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