The following commentary is by Terry Teykl, author of The Presence-Based Church, My Most Wanted: 40 Days to Pray for the Lost, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. An elder in the Texas Annual Conference, Dr. Teykl is a “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging churches to [...]
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Terry Teykl on becoming a ‘Presence-based church’
Posted in Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Prayer, Revival, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Podcast — Bishop Lindsey Davis: Will the UMC have the courage to do what needs to be done?
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Evangelism, General Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Bishop Lindsey Davis of the Kentucky Annual Conference says the United Methodist Church must repent of its missional lethargy and re-commit itself to the purposes of God in Jesus Christ if it hopes to have renewed life. In his remarks, recorded last fall at a meeting of the [...]
Dr. Timothy Tennent on Rob Bell’s domesticated gospel
Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, United Methodist Church on March 25, 2011 | 13 Comments »
The following commentary is by Timothy C. Tennent, president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., one of the top training institutions for United Methodist clergy (Asbury also has a Florida campus). Below, Dr. Tennent offers a critique of Rob Bell’s controversial book, Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever [...]
Prayers of biblical hope during Lent
Posted in Church Renewal, Prayer, Revival on March 8, 2011 |
Beginning tomorrow and continuing through Palm Sunday on April 17, many Christians throughout the U.S. and around the world will be observing a 40-day season of prayer, roughly coinciding with the season of Lent. Here are the areas of prayer focus over the next several weeks, as described in the prayer guide, Seek God for [...]
Podcast encore: Bishop Alfred Norris on ‘Vitality in Ministry’
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, North Georgia Conference, Ordination, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on February 16, 2011 |
During February, while MethodistThinker is on hiatus from new postings, we’re showcasing podcasts from our fall 2010 season. This podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris. Born in Louisiana in 1938, Alfred Lloyd Norris was educated at Dillard University in New Orleans and Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta. After serving for 16 years as [...]
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 [...]
Steve Wende: Doctrinal orthodoxy should be deciding factor in choosing GC delegates
Posted in Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on January 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The pastor of one of the United Methodist Church’s largest congregations is urging those casting votes for delegates to the 2012 General Conference not to allow personal friendships to carry more weight than theological orthodoxy. “[If a brother or sister wants my vote] and yet they don’t believe the same things I do, all I [...]
Riley Case: Seminaries and the decline of United Methodism
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Camp Meeting, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, Leadership Development, Ordination, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on January 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC’s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) and [...]
Podcast: Billy Graham at the 1980 UM Congress on Evangelism
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Evangelism, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on December 6, 2010 |
The final MethodistThinker Podcast of 2010 features an address by the foremost American evangelist of the 20th century, the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, speaking at the 1980 United Methodist Congress on Evangelism. Born in North Carolina in 1918, William Franklin Graham gave his life to Jesus Christ at a evangelistic service in Charlotte in 1934. [...]
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