The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. He writes below about the “Operational Assessment” of the United Methodist Church submitted in late June to the UMC’s Call to Action Steering Team. The assessment (executive summary | full report | appendices—all in PDF) [...]
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Riley Case: ‘Operational Assessment’ shows UMC has lost its way
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Discipleship, General Conference, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Podcast: Randy Maddox on ‘Methodist Doctrine, Spirit, Discipline’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Laity, Leadership Development, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on August 25, 2010 |
MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus until after Labor Day. In the interim, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features an address by Dr. Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School. In his presentation, he focuses on a widely quoted statement made by Methodist [...]
Podcast: Bishop Gerald Kennedy on ‘The Marks of a Methodist’
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, United Methodist Men, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on August 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
MethodistThinker.com is enjoying a late-summer holiday. From now until Labor Day, in lieu of new postings, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features the leader who served for two decades as the bishop of the Los Angeles Area of The (United) Methodist Church: Bishop Gerald Kennedy. Born in Michigan and raised [...]
Four things the UMC must do ‘to serve the present age’
Posted in Church Development, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Media, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on May 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This post is by Richard Hunter, senior pastor of Snellville United Methodist Church (North Georgia Conference). He holds a doctorate in parish revitalization from McCormick Theological Seminary (Chicago) and teaches on the adjunct faculty at both Asbury Theological Seminary and the Candler School of Theology. — Ed. I want to be a part of renewing [...]
Podcast: Randy Maddox on Methodist ‘doctrine, spirit, discipline’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Laity, Leadership Development, Podcasts, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 4, 2010 |
John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement (along with his brother Charles), once wrote: I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And [...]
Podcast: Bishop Gerald Kennedy on ‘The Marks of a Methodist’
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on April 19, 2010 |
The premiere podcast of our spring 2010 season features the leader who served for two decades as the bishop of the Los Angeles Area of The (United) Methodist Church: Bishop Gerald Kennedy. Born in Michigan and raised in California, Gerald Hamilton Kennedy was schooled at the College of the Pacific, the Pacific School of Religion, [...]
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 [...]
The Global Day of Prayer
Posted in Discipleship, Holiness, Missions, Prayer, Revival, tagged Video on May 27, 2009 |
Stopping in for a brief visit last week at a United Methodist Church in Indiana, I was pleased to see a poster in the narthex indicating the congregation would be participating in this Sunday’s Global Day of Prayer. This international prayer event represents one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. The Global [...]
UM Judicial Council convenes for Spring session
Posted in Book of Discipline, Discipleship, General Conference, Judicial Council, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on April 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The United Methodist Judicial Council, opening its Spring session today in Denver, Colorado, will hear cases relating to homosexual “marriage” ceremonies, church membership, and the planned George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. (See full docket here—PDF.) The Council is the denomination’s supreme court and rules on questions of constitutionality in church law [...]
Bishop James King: ‘We are returning to God’
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Holiness, Laity, Revival, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men on February 23, 2009 |
South Georgia Bishop James King has a message for men in the Feb. 20 Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences. Professional economists suggest that the stock market has a way of correcting itself when things go to one extreme or the other. It appears that “correction” is a part [...]
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