David F. Watson

I wrote a book with @dfwatson3! It is about recovering Methodist identity and has a great title: Faith & Fire. Check it out: kevinmwatson.com/2026/04/06/rec…

Completely different era

To Spread Scriptural Holiness is now available! This book, written by 70 leading Wesleyan scholars and church leaders, is lay-oriented, faithful, and designed for both personal and small group use. It asks the question, “what does a Christlike life look like?” Link below.

Historians won't be kind to this tech era. Since 2008, we’ve allowed a social experiment on our kids for profit. Meta’s own researchers admitted it: the platforms were designed to be addictive. The adults got played. Today's kids are in crisis. Yet many parents still allow it.

Had the LP.

AI use is ruining careers.

How We Worship MATTERS: Worship from a Wesleyan perspective with @TesiaLee & @dfwatson3 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its… #gmchurch

In light of all the things @POTUS has done with executive orders, I wish he would write one more and eliminate Daylight Saving Time.

He sat with an accordion and played one of Vivaldi’s hardest pieces alone, sounding like a full orchestra in his hands 🎶

Our country is going to pay a heavy price for the over-emphasis on sports we have placed on children. The mental health dangers of sports is piling up (esp. travel sports). The negative consequences often don’t show until the 20s, by then it’s assumed to be about something else.

Ummmm... Hey Shane... Have you read what the very-much-not-theistic Soviets did in Ukraine during 1932-1933? Or what the very-much-pagan Nazis did in the Holocaust? Or the body count from Pol Pot's massacres? It's fair to say that some Christians have distorted their beliefs and it has had murderous results. But "No one kills with more passion than someone who believes that God is on their side" is, historically speaking, ridiculous. What's more accurate, after the enlightenment, and after the possibility of industrialized murder was invented, is more aligned with Dostoyevsky's idea — "without God, everything is permitted." And that has been the case.

Please tell me this is AI. Surely no preacher, however liberal, can be this stupid to think that Gos. Thom. was omitted from the Bible and the bit on male/female means what he thinks it means.

Join the Asbury Church Fellowship Program! We are 6 months into our Fellowship Program and we are ready to start round 2. This is a paid full-time position, with benefits. We are looking to hire 2 additional Fellows to start early Fall 2026. Details here: kevinmwatson.com/2026/03/04/joi…

I wrote a book with the President of @AsburySeminary. NBD

Excited about this one! @kevinwatson

Iowa OL Gennings Dunker running the 40-yard dash was meant to be set to "Free Bird":

Join Dr. David Watson at Underground Seminary: Faith & Fire @dfwatson3 is coming to Tulsa! And we have written a book together. David is going to speak at the 4th Underground Seminary. And this is going to be the biggest one we've had yet. Details here: kevinmwatson.com/2026/02/27/joi…

I got to preach last week at Asbury Church! Check it out: "Would You Recognize the Deal of a Lifetime?" youtube.com/watch?v=NCW1WL…

I welcome it when celebrities say things that are pro-Jesus. But it does not mean that we need to platform them as Christian leaders.

@roddreher Thank you for this post. Grace is a rare commodity among Christian’s on X.

I have some expertise here. I know David, & the full story. I also am divorced (my wife filed), & have had to take lots of abuse from ppl who don’t know real story, & who can’t bec I owe it to the woman who divorced me & our kids to protect their privacy — which includes the reason our older son & I moved to Europe. As with David’s case, the optics disfavor me, even though she divorced me), but they deceive. I could easily defend myself from the criticism, but to do so would only compound the tragedy and make things even worse for my kids, who didn’t deserve any of this. So I just have to suck it up. And I do. I’m not saying David’s situation was exactly like mine — it wasn’t — but I am saying that the ten-year, extremely painful breakup of my marriage taught me to be careful about judging divorced people. Few if anybody knew how much my wife and I were suffering inside that marriage, for a decade, before she called it quits. They didn’t know because we put on a good front, mostly to protect the kids. I don’t know David’s ex wife, so I don’t know her side of the story. I’m not passing judgment. I’m simply saying that people should be a lot more hesitant than they are to decide they k is what’s what in the breakdown of the Brooks marriage. David has said publicly that he and his ex mutually agreed never to disparage each other publicly. Far as I can see, they’ve stuck to that. I think David is a good man. I often disagree with his political judgment, but I consider him a kind and generous friend (his wife Anne too). I got to know them as my own marriage was in severe crisis, and they helped me through it. I’ll always be grateful for that. David is a sinner, as am I, as are you, and he hasn’t claimed otherwise. All I want to say here is that NOBODY outside a failed marriage really knows what went on inside it, except those in it. That’s not to say there is not blame; it’s only to say that it’s a good idea to give grace in such matters, because you don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes. Since my divorce, a number of Christian men who are strangers to me have reached out to share their own suffering within failed marriages, and to ask for advice. I tell you, there is a vast reservoir of pain in our society within marriages that people continue to persevere in because of God, their kids, or whatever. I had no real idea until it happened to me, and, because I am a public figure, men started writing to me about their pain. I’m not asking you to bless David here. I’m simply telling you all to withhold judgment, because unless you are a friend, you don’t know his side of the story (and he hasn’t claimed otherwise never disparaged his ex wife even privately to me). Some failed marriages do have clear villains. This is not one of them. Life is very hard. If you are in a good and steady marriage, thank God for it, and thank your spouse every day. This blessing is not given to everybody.