Author Archives: Richard Heyduck

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About Richard Heyduck

Pastor of Hardy Memorial Methodist Church, a Global Methodist Congregation. PhD Fuller Seminary MDiv Asbury Seminary BA Southwestern University

“Let them eat cake”

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

The last couple of issues of the United Methodist Reporter have featured articles on GracePoint UMC, a recent church plant in Wichita, Kansas, that grew quickly, but let the denomination this spring. It’s depressing to invest so much money, energy … Continue reading →

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Three Lines

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

One of the illustrations I use when I teach on discipleship is the image of three lines. The first line we cross is the line of commitment to Christ. We come to a point where we become followers of Jesus. … Continue reading →

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Reading Tribal Church

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

I just finished reading Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation by Carol Howard Merritt, the book we’re supposed to be reading for our next monthly district clergy gathering. The book’s points can be summed up fairly briefly: Young people … Continue reading →

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What’s Next?

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

We humans are such odd creatures. We seem to oscillate between giving no thought to the consequences of our actions to being paralyzed with fear by imagined consequences of our actions. Take one of the proposed constitutional changes in the … Continue reading →

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Memories

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

A Happy Memory: One Sunday about 14 years ago my son did the children’s message for the church service. Well, it was sort of a reverse children’s message. In a normal children’s message an adult gets up and tells the … Continue reading →

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Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

In his book by this title, Carlos R. Blovell argues that institutional commitments to a doctrine of biblical inerrancy like that found in the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Philosophical Society are not conducive to the spiritual formation of … Continue reading →

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Cult of Accountability

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

In his essay on the epistemological problems underlying the current economic crisis, Jerry Z. Miller refers to the “cult of accountability:” The cult of “accountability” was linked to key innovations that turned out to have unanticipated undersides. One was the … Continue reading →

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Stuck

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

Sometimes we get stuck. While getting stuck is commonly taken to be a bad thing, it depends on where we’re stuck or what we’re stuck in. Perhaps you’re stuck in a family that keeps on loving you even when you … Continue reading →

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Evolution in Texas Classrooms

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

The Texas Board of Education is again facing the issue of how to teach evolution in our schools. In an opinion piece in Tuesday’s Dallas Morning News Daniel W. Foster, M.D. argues in favor of teaching evolution. He closes his … Continue reading →

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Foolish Spending

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

I’ve heard a lot about foolish spending lately. Most recently it’s million dollar bonuses at AIG. Before that it was a lavish executive retreat. A few months back it was an office bathroom renovation. Foolish spending is nothing new. A … Continue reading →

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