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Podcast: John Wesley on ‘The New Birth’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Evangelism, Media, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, tagged on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Posted below is the debut edition of The MethodistThinker Podcast, featuring timeless teaching by Methodist pastors and leaders. This week, a sermon by the founder of the movement: Anglican clergyman John Wesley! Click the audio player below for details — or download an mp3. (The podcast is 11-and-a-half minutes.) ∞ Next week, a sermon by [...]

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Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’

Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Dr.  Ed Tomlinson, who served for eight as years executive assistant to the bishop of the North Georgia Conference, is expressing strong opposition to five constitutional amendments to be voted on this year by Conferences throughout the United Methodist Church. If passed, the amendments would allow United Methodists in the United States to structurally segregate [...]

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Coming soon: The MethodistThinker Podcast

Posted in Bishops, Leadership Development, Media, Preaching, United Methodist Church on March 23, 2009 |

A recent post by Southern Baptist blogger Trevin Wax has stirred my thinking about how bishops and other UM leaders can more effectively sow into the lives of younger pastors and leaders. I continue to see articles and hear comments about the loss of young pastors from the ranks of the [Southern Baptist Convention]…. To [...]

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Update on the ‘Church and Society’ court case

Posted in Ethics, Social Issues, Stewardship, United Methodist Church on March 19, 2009 |

Joe Whittemore, a former member of the United Methodist Church’s Committee on Audit and Review (part of the General Council on Finance and Administration), has authored an extensive column about the pending court case involving the UM General Board of Church and Society. The case, now awaiting a ruling from the Superior Court of the [...]

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Praying for those in government

Posted in Prayer on March 13, 2009 |

These are difficult days for leaders at all levels of government. The Lenten season prayer guide, Seek God for the City (see post here), suggests these specific “prayer points” for interceding for government leaders: that leaders will be examples of righteousness to our society; that they will experience God’s wisdom in their deliberations; that they [...]

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Wesleyan Christian Advocate to end publication this month

Posted in Media, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church on March 9, 2009 |

The March 20 edition of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate will be the 172-year-old newspaper’s final issue “in its current format,” according to a story in the Advocate‘s March 6 edition. The newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences, battered in recent years by rising costs and declining revenues, then will go through a “two-stage [...]

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John Ed Mathison: Six ways for a pastor to make a lasting difference

Posted in Church Renewal, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged on March 6, 2009 |

In his address last week to North Georgia’s Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement, Dr. John Ed Mathison focused not only on seven concerns about the United Methodist Church, but on six specific ways pastors can become more intentional about make a lasting difference in the lives of others. Dr. Mathison, who “retired” last year following more [...]

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John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC

Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The man who led one of the United Methodist Church’s strongest and largest congregations for more than three decades shared his “ideas and opinions” last week about the future of the denomination. Dr. John Ed Mathison, pastor of Frazer Memorial UMC in Montgomery, Ala., for 36 years, spoke at a gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant [...]

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