Despite an announced hiatus from posting new material during August, we’re making an exception to post this just-released commentary by Dr. Maxie Dunnam, chancellor of Asbury Seminary. (Links in this article have been added by MethodistThinker.com.) In 1859, John Henry Newman wrote an article entitled, “On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine.” It was [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Maxie Dunnam: Amendments outcome reflects ‘sense of the faithful’
Posted in Book of Discipline, Doctrine, General Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on August 27, 2009 |
Podcast: E. Stanley Jones on ‘The Gift of the Holy Spirit’
Posted in Doctrine, Sermons, tagged Audio on August 24, 2009 |
Leading up to the fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast, which will begin after Labor Day, MethodistThinker.com is highlighting programs from our Spring 2009 season. This week, 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. [...]
Podcast: Bill Hinson on ‘The Making of a Minister’
Posted in Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on August 17, 2009 |
While production continues on the upcoming fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast, we’re highlighting several podcasts from our spring season. This week, a sermon by the late Dr. Bill Hinson, long-time pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Houston, Texas. During his 18-year tenure at First UMC-Houston, more than 3,000 people joined that congregation [...]
Podcast: John Wesley on ‘The New Birth’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on August 10, 2009 |
Over the next several weeks, while production continues on the upcoming fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast, we’re highlighting several podcasts from our spring season, beginning with our debut program below. We could think of no better person to feature on our premiere program than the founder of the Methodist movement: Anglican clergyman John Wesley. [...]
First anniversary: Looking back, looking ahead
Posted in Media, United Methodist Church on August 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
MethodistThinker.com is celebrating its first anniversary this week!* Here is a list of our five most-viewed posts over the past 12 months: Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy Proposed amendments would separate UMC into ‘national entities’ John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC Joe [...]
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