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The following prayer by the Rev. Tim Whitaker was published in the January/February 2001 issue of the The District Beam, newsletter of the Virginia Conference’s Norfolk District. At the time, Mr. Whitaker was serving as superintendent of that district. On Feb. 28, 2001, he was elected to be a bishop and was assigned to United [...]

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The following reflection on Pentecost was written in 2000 by Bishop G. Lindsey Davis, now episcopal leader of the Kentucky Annual Conference and the Red Bird Missionary Conference. In many of our United Methodist churches, Pentecost Sunday will be observed only casually. For still others, no mention of Pentecost will be made at all. It [...]

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Stopping in for a brief visit last week at a United Methodist Church in Indiana, I was pleased to see a poster in the narthex indicating the congregation would be participating in this Sunday’s Global Day of Prayer. This international prayer event represents one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. The Global [...]

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This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by evangelist Tom Atkins, immediate past president of the National Association of United Methodist Evangelists. After serving as a pastor in the North Georgia Conference for more than two decades, Tom became one of North Georgia’s General Evangelists in 1994. Since that time, he has preached at revivals, [...]

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The Rev. Dick McClain has been chosen as the next president of The Mission Society, the Methodist-led missionary-sending agency founded 25 years ago. The Society now has more than 225 missionaries serving in 32 nations around the world. Mr. McClain, who has served as The Society’s vice president for church ministry since 2000, will succeed [...]

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“I believe…Jesus Christ…ascended into heaven, and stitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” These words, from the Apostles’ Creed, are spoken in many United Methodist worship services almost every Sunday. Regrettably, few people who speak them understand why the Ascension is one of the key doctrines of the Christian faith. I hope [...]

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This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Dr. Eddie Fox, world director of World Methodist Evangelism, a ministry of the World Methodist Council. Dr. Fox is also the executive director of the World Methodist Evangelism Institute. In his role as director of World Evangelism, he oversees the efforts of 16 regional evangelists worldwide. His [...]

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Jerry P. Kulah, superintendent of the United Methodist Church’s Monrovia District in Liberia, is urging defeat of a series of constitutional amendments aimed at restructuring the denomination. If passed, the amendments likely would result in the structural segregation of United Methodists in Africa, Asia, and Europe from United Methodists in the U.S. The amendments, proposed [...]

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This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Bishop Robert E. Hayes, Jr., episcopal leader of both the Oklahoma Conference and the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference in the United Methodist Church. Before being elected the the episcopacy in 2004, Robert Hayes served as a pastor and a district superintendent in the Texas Conference. This sermon [...]

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The May 9 WORLD magazine has an update on the work of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling — recently re-christened StopPredatoryGambling.org. The long-time field director of the anti-gambling group is United Methodist clergyman Tom Grey. “Grey…still runs mini-marathons at the age of 67 but wants to encourage a younger generation to join a movement [...]

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This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by the late Methodist missionary, Dr. E. Stanley Jones. Born in 1884, Eli Stanley Jones responded to the call to missionary service in his early 20s. He spent much of his adult life in India, although as an “evangelist at large” for the Board of Missions of the [...]

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