A statement on sexuality approved by the Baltimore-Washington Conference and a Western North Carolina Conference plan allowing flexibility in the payment of apportionments will go before the United Methodist Judicial Council this week. The two cases are among 21 items the denomination’s highest court will consider when it meets for its fall session starting Wednesday. [...]
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UM Judicial Council to rule on sexuality resolution, apportionments
Posted in Judicial Council, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on October 26, 2009 |
Podcast — Harry Denman: ‘Are We Making Christ Known?’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Laity, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 20, 2009 |
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by the featured speaker on this week’s MethodistThinker Podcast, Dr. Harry Denman. As young man in the 1920s, Harry Denman showed exceptional gifts in evangelism and administration — both in his service at the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, and [...]
Riley Case: Approval of Amendment XIX a ‘positive development’ for evangelicals
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on October 15, 2009 |
As United Methodists await the official outcome of annual-conference voting on 32 proposed amendments to the UM Constitution, the apparent victory of Amendment XIX (19) has received relatively little attention. Instead, the focus has been on the now all-but-certain defeat of Amendment I (which would have altered membership requirements) and the poor showing of the [...]
Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’
Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Preaching, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
At the 11th annual Leadership Institute, held last week at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, host pastor Adam Hamilton urged pastors and lay preachers to focus on improving the quality of their preaching. “We are in desperate need today of excellent preaching,” he said during the conference’s Oct. 9 morning [...]
Podcast: Dr. James Heidinger on ‘United Methodist Renewal’
Posted in Church Renewal, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 6, 2009 |
This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a presentation by Dr. James V. Heidinger II, recently retired as the president and publisher of Good News, United Methodism’s flagship renewal ministry. Born into a political family in Illinois (his grandfather was a three-term U.S. Congressman and his father a state officeholder), Jim Heidinger decided his calling was in [...]
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