Praying with John Wesley
David A. deSilva(Ph.D., Emory University) is Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio and an ordained elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He is the author of over twenty books, includingSacramental Life: Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer(2008), The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned From the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha(2012),Global Readings: A Sri Lankan Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians(2011),Seeing Things John's Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation(2009),An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation(2004), Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance(2002),Perseverance in Gratitude: A Socio-rhetorical Commentary on the Epistle "to the Hebrews"(2000), andHonor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture(2000), as well as over one hundred journal articles and contributions to reference works and collections of essays.