This is the latest in a monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is condensed from “The Marks of the New Birth,” Sermon 18 among Mr. Wesley’s standard sermons. For easier reading, some of the wording in this condensation has [...]
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A word from Mr. Wesley: Power over sin
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A word from Mr. Wesley: ‘You must be born again’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Sermons on June 1, 2011 |
This is the latest in a monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is condensed from “The New Birth,” Sermon 45 among Mr. Wesley’s standard sermons. For easier reading, some of the wording in this condensation has been slightly updated, [...]
Podcast — George Hunter: Can the once-great Methodist movement become a movement again?
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Politics, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. George Hunter of Asbury Seminary details how Methodism, at least in its institutional United Methodist form, has become what it was once a reaction against. In his remarks, recorded earlier this year at United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. Hunter asks if “a once great movement” — [...]
A word from Mr. Wesley: The sure cornerstone of our faith
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Holiness, Sermons, United Methodist Church on April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is the latest in our monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is condensed from “Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount—13,” one of many sermons Mr. Wesley preached on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). For easier [...]
St. Patrick: A great missionary
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Missions, Prayer on March 17, 2011 |
St. Patrick’s Day is widely observed, but in our time few people know anything about Patrick himself. Patrick was not born in Ireland, as is widely supposed, but in what is now England. As a teenager, in about the year 430, he was captured by Irish soldiers and sold into slavery. While enslaved, he became [...]
Charles Wesley on ‘The cause and cure of earthquakes’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Sermons on March 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Friday’s massive earthquake in Japan raises an age-old question: Is God is the author of “natural disasters”? Methodist co-founder Charles Wesley spoke to this question in a sermon first delivered in 1750, an edited text of which is below. (Wesley also composed two volumes of earthquake-related hymns.) The version of Wesley’s sermon presented here has [...]
A word from Mr. Wesley: ‘The way to the kingdom’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Preaching, Sermons on March 2, 2011 |
This is the third in our monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is from John Wesley’s sermon, “The Way to the Kingdom.” The wording has been slightly updated from the original, based on the adaptation found in Renew My [...]
Podcast encore: Dr. Billy Abraham on ‘Connecting Doctrine and Evangelism’
Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Evangelism, General Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on February 9, 2011 |
MethodistThinker.com is on its semi-annual hiatus (observed in February and August). This month, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2010. The premiere podcast of our fall 2010 season featured Methodist theologian Dr. Billy Abraham, the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology Born in North Ireland in [...]
A word from Mr. Wesley: ‘The first doctrine’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Holiness, Preaching, Revival, United Methodist Church on February 2, 2011 |
This is the second installment of a monthly MethodistThinker feature for 2011 that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement. Because the use of language changes with the passage of time, the wording in these excerpts has been slightly updated, based on the adaptation found in Renew My Heart [...]
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