Challenges the moral bankruptcy of our "free" society and calls for a reawakening to the timeless absolutes of right and wrong that guard healthy, holy living.
Many Christians today hear the upward call of God to holiness. But they do not know how to answer the call. In a moment of inspiration they hear the still, small voice and catch a glimpse of a land filled with rare spiritual vistas. They treasure the vision and sense a deep hunger of the soul for more of God. But in the "maddening maze of things"--such as car pools, night classes, music lessons, soccer practice, and church committee meetings--the vision fades and on they go, stumbling along the Mediocre Way instead of the Highway of Holiness.
The Upward Call presents a marriage between the Wesleyan teaching of holiness and the spiritual formation tradition. Following this unique approach, the authors offer a fresh, compelling, and practical description of what it means to respond to that hunger of the soul--to heed the upward call of God to a holy life of growing Christlikeness. "I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Phil. 3:14, NKJV
Wesley D. Tracy was the editor of the Herald of Holiness (now Holiness Today), the denominational magazine of the Church of the Nazarene. He has served in the church as a pastor, professor, writer, and editor and is a past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society. A graduate of Southern Nazarene University, Nazarene Theological Seminary, and holding two doctorates (D.Min. and S.T.D.) from San Francisco Theological Seminary, he has authored hundreds of articles and numerous books. Wesley and his wife, Bettye, are members of the Kansas City First Church of the Nazarene.
E. Dee Freeborn is Professor of Pastoral Theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, where he serves as director of field education. He teaches spiritual formation in the classroom, as well as in local churches and in a variety of retreat and conference settings.
Janine Tartaglia-Metcalf served several years as a television news reporter in southern California. She is now an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, and adjunct professor at Nazarene Theological Seminary, and evangelist. She is a frequent speaker on spiritual formation in workshops, retreats, revivals, and college conventions.
Morris A. Weigelt is professor of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City. He is well known for teaching, writing, and modeling spiritual formation and the holy life.
