HCN Discipleship Ministries

02/03/2026

The Explorers Class will be using Timothy R Gaines excellent book Walking the Theological Life beginning Sunday Feb 8. Chapter one is Jeremiah: On Not Knowing How to Speak. How do we go about the work of New Creation?

11/22/2025

Wednesdays throughout the Advent season

11/11/2025

Nazarene Lifelong Learning opportunity:

After a question from my friend Pastor Mark Robinson, I inquired and our Summer Discipleship Series at Hendersonville Church of the Nazarene now has an official Lifelong Learning Code. I have linked the Youtube playlist for all sessions in the comments. There are a possible seven hours in the playlist.

HCN - 2025 Summer Discipleship Series


Rev. Dr. Shawna Gaines - The Pastor as Midwife
Rev. Dr. Steven Hoskins - An Adventure to the End of the World (History)
Nick Polk - Tolkien and the Perfection of Art (Art and Perfection in the age to come)
Rev. Caleb Haynes - Creation Care
Rev. Dr. Hunter Cummings - Practicing Mercy with John Wesley
Dr. Stan Wilson - Spiritual Formation In Events and Life (Experiences filing the Chosen series)
Micah Voraritskul - Created to Create (Artificial Intelligence)


The code is available on the playlist info. If you don't see it, please let me know.

05/29/2025

Tolkien Pop Joins us NEXT Wednesday! This will be an awesome evening!

04/13/2025

08/29/2024

We just wrapped our summer Discovering Discipleship series at Hendersonville Church of the Nazarene. It has been a very fun and impactful summer as we discovered ways we can be more intentional disciples. Thanks to our amazing guests, we encountered new ideas and new ways of engaging with our faith. Here is a quick listing of some of what we did.

We learned about how children are the church and teach us about discipleship every day with Shaun Stevenson

We learned about how we can find themes of faith in pop culture with Tolkien Pop

We learned about how we can walk a theological like with Timothy R Gaines

We learned about why we should be concerned about our environment as people called to tend the garden with Caleb Haynes

We learned about how recognizing what is worthy of our finitude can help us be intentional with J. Aaron Simmons, PhD

We explored the ancient discipline of Lectio Divina and found a new and ancient way of engaging scripture with Brent D. Neely

We closed out with learning how we are created and are creative in God's image and how imagination is important for discipleship with Nate Pruitt

We may not always have amazing guests, but our discipleship is centered on how to be more like Jesus and the multitude of ways we can engage in discipleship. You are always welcome on this journey with us at HCN.

10/01/2021

Thomas Jay Oord has started a podcast series of shorts on open and relational theology. This is a good resource for those who have more questions after our recent roundtable.

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‎Religion & Spirituality · 2021

08/13/2021

On Sunday evening August 29th, we will be having a roundtable with Dr Thomas Jay Oord . We will be discussing his new book Open and Relational Theology. If you have never heard about Open and Relational Theology we have included a link here to a short video introduction.

This 2-minute video offers a brief introduction to Open and Relational Theology. For more information, visit the Center for Open and Relational Theology webs...

07/18/2021

Join us this evening on the HCN Page

07/14/2021

This Sunday evening at 6:30 PM CDT HCN Discipleship Ministries is kicking off our next virtual Theology Series with an author event. Join us and Gabriel Gordon as we discuss his new book God Speaks: A Participatory Theology of Biblical Inspiration.