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Bishop Mike Watson: Spiritual disciplines for the New Year

Posted in Bishops, Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Holiness, Prayer, United Methodist Church on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson is urging United Methodists to read through the entire Bible in 2009. Every Christian should read the entire Bible. If you have never done so, now is the time to begin — and here is a plan to help you. This guide (PDF) is designed to keep your place as [...]

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An Advent sermon by North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson

Posted in Bishops, Doctrine, North Georgia Conference, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson preached on “Getting Ready for Someone Special” in a recent sermon at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta. His text was Mark 1:1-8: The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is written in Isaiah the prophet: I will send my messenger ahead of [...]

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For the pastor on your Christmas gift list

Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, Stewardship on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Looking for just the right gift for a preacher? I suggest Warren Lathem and Dan Dunn’s book, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity, released earlier this year by Bristol House. The authors (Lathem has served as a pastor, district superintendent, and seminary president; Dunn has been a pastor, associate pastor, and [...]

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Astonishing preaching

Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, tagged on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In a commencement address today at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., seminary president Albert Mohler quoted at length from an influential 1971 book by Fred Craddock (then at Phillips University, later a professor of preaching at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology). That book, As One Without Authority, launched something of a [...]

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North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson: ‘God alone is worthy’

Posted in Bishops, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From a column by North Georgia Bishop B. Michael Watson in the Dec. 5 issue of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate: I pray that this year, as Christian disciples, we will experience joyful and renewing opportunities… to sing praise for the graceful birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and to receive the graceful renewal offered… through [...]

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Source documents in the Methodist Building Trust case

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Media, Politics, Social Issues, United Methodist Church on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The United Methodist News Service has published a well-researched article, authored by UMNS reporter Kathy Gilbert, on the continuing legal battle over the Methodist Building Endowment Fund. Unfortunately, the UMNS did not post the full text of the document which is at the center of the case: a 1965 Declaration of Trust that established boundaries [...]

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A profile of Bishop James King

Posted in Bishops, Discipleship, Evangelism, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Reporter Rodney Manley at The (Macon) Telegraph, Georgia’s third-largest circulation newspaper, has written a nice profile of Bishop James King. Bishop King was appointed earlier this year to be the episcopal leader of the South Georgia Conference. The full article is no longer online, but here is an excerpt: King is the South Georgia Conference’s [...]

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