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The top ten MethodistThinker posts of 2009

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men, tagged , on December 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The following are our ten most-viewed posts of 2009 (the date of each post date is in parentheses): Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ (Oct. 12) In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy (June 29) Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ (March 26) Proposed amendments would separate UMC [...]

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Why aren’t UM leaders supporting the Manhattan Declaration?

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Holiness, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on December 22, 2009 | 7 Comments »

More than a month after the release of the Manhattan Declaration, it remains unknown if any United Methodist bishops or board/agency leaders have signed the document. The declaration, now carrying more than 300,000 signatures, analyzes the dehumanizing forces at work in the world and affirms three general principles: 1. The sanctity of human life; 2. [...]

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Podcast: Terry Teykl on ‘Praying for the Lost’

Posted in Evangelism, Podcasts, Prayer, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on December 18, 2009 |

The final podcast of our fall season features prayer leader Terry Teykl, author of Acts 29, The Presence-Based Church, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. Dr. Teykl, an elder in the Texas Annual Conference, is a “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging  churches to develop and maintain [...]

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Podcast: Bishop William R. Cannon on ‘The Whole Gospel for the Whole World’

Posted in Bishops, Evangelism, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The current MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by the late Bishop William R. Cannon, a theologian and church historian who authored more than a dozen books, including History of Christianity in the Middle Ages, Theology of John Wesley, and Evangelism in a Contemporary Context. William Ragsdale Cannon was born in Tennessee in 1916. He attended [...]

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