The president of a United Methodist-affiliated seminary says Christians who feel the need to evangelize people of other faiths have “an incorrect perception of what it means to follow Jesus.” The comment from Jerry D. Campbell, president of California’s Claremont School of Theology, was published July 2 by the United Methodist Reporter. “The correct perception [...]
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Claremont president: Christians shouldn’t evangelize people of other faiths
Posted in Book of Discipline, Evangelism, Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on July 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Podcast—Maxie Dunnam: ‘Pastor as Prophet, Priest, Evangelist’
Posted in Doctrine, Evangelism, North Georgia Conference, Ordination, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 8, 2010 |
The final podcast of our spring season features one of the most prominent United Methodist leaders of recent decades: Dr. Maxie Dunnam. Maxie Dunnam was born in Mississippi in 1934. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi (1955), he went on to earn a Master of Theology from Atlanta’s [...]
Podcast — Harry Denman: ‘Are We Making Christ Known?’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Laity, Sermons, United Methodist Men, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus from posting new material for several weeks. During this time, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2009. Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by Dr. Harry Denman. As young man in the 1920s, Harry Denman showed exceptional gifts in evangelism and [...]
Podcast: Sir Alan Walker — ‘Christianity at the Crossroads’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Evangelism, Missions, Sermons, United Methodist Church on February 8, 2010 |
MethodistThinker.com will be on hiatus from posting new material for the next several weeks. During this time, we will showcase podcasts from the fall of 2009. The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season featured one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker. Born in Sydney, Australia, [...]
Podcast: Terry Teykl on ‘Praying for the Lost’
Posted in Evangelism, Podcasts, Prayer, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church 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 [...]
Podcast: Bishop William R. Cannon on ‘The Whole Gospel for the Whole World’
Posted in Bishops, Evangelism, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church 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 [...]
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 [...]
Podcast: Sir Alan Walker — ‘Christianity at the Crossroads’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Evangelism, Missions, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on September 21, 2009 |
The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season features one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker. Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1911, Alan Walker was the 13th person in his family tree to become a preacher. In the 1950s, he became known for leading evangelistic meetings [...]
The Mission Society celebrates 25 years
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, General Conference, Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on September 14, 2009 |
The Mission Society, launched in 1984 as The Mission Society for United Methodists, hosted a “Celebration of God’s Faithfulness” Friday, marking the mission-sending agency’s 25th anniversary. Hundreds friends and supporters gathered at the First United Methodist Church in Norcross, Georgia (near the Society’s headquarters) to celebrate with missionaries, staff members, and current and former leaders [...]
Podcast: Tom Atkins — ‘We need the power of Holy Spirit’
Posted in Doctrine, Evangelism, Holiness, Podcasts, Sermons, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 25, 2009 |
This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by evangelist Tom Atkins, immediate past president of the National Association of United Methodist Evangelists. After serving as a pastor in the North Georgia Conference for more than two decades, Tom became one of North Georgia’s General Evangelists in 1994. Since that time, he has preached at revivals, [...]
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