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.
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 Methodist Episcopal Church, he preached and taught in many nations.
Dr. Jones influenced millions of people through his bestselling books, including The Christ of the Indian Road (1925) and Abundant Living (1942).
E. Stanley Jones also was the founder of the international Christian Ashram movement, a retreat ministry focused on creating an environment in which people could get away from their normal routines and seek the Lord.
The sermon on this podcast was preached at a U.S. Ashram in August 1960. The sermon title is, “The Gift of the Holy Spirit: The Birthright of All Christians.” (This sermon is included in the 2008 book, Living Upon the Way: Selected Sermons of E. Stanley Jones on Self-Surrender and Conversion.)
To listen to the podcast, use the audio player below (26 min.) — or right click (Windows users) to download an mp3 (11.8 MB).
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The fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast is now in production and will feature lectures and sermons from (among others) the late Sir Alan Walker, first director of World Methodist Evangelism; the late Bishop William R. Cannon, one of the founders of the Confessing Movement within the United Methodist Church; and the late Harry Denman, founder of the Foundation for Evangelism.
Related information |
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| • | Biography of E. Stanley Jones from the Asbury College Archives |
| • | United Christian Ashrams |
| • | Living Upon the Way: Selected Sermons of E. Stanley Jones on Self-Surrender and Conversion (ordering information for book and CDs) | Lucknow Publishing House (2008) |
| • | Selected Messages from E. Stanley Jones — DVD | Vision Video |
| • | India Methodists celebrate 150 years of ministry | James S. Murthy, Good News magazine (Jan./Feb. 2007) |
| • | A listing of E. Stanley Jones Professors of Evangelism funded by the Foundation for Evangelism |
