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 [...]
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Podcast — Maxie Dunnam: The 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 | Leave a Comment »
Podcast: Aldersgate Day address by Donald English
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Holiness, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today (May 24) is observed by members of the Methodist and Wesleyan family as Aldersgate Day, commemorating a pivotal event in life of John Wesley — an experience of God’s grace that began his transformation from a largely ineffective Anglican clergyman into one of the most effective and influential leaders in Christian history. At a [...]
Podcast: Charles Keysor—‘How then should UM evangelicals fight?’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Media, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The third podcast of our spring season features one of the most influential United Methodists of the 1960s and 70s: Dr. Charles W. Keysor, founder of the Methodist renewal ministry known as Good News. In a 1986 tribute, published several months after Dr. Keysor’s cancer-related death at age 60, Good News magazine described him as [...]
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 | Leave a Comment »
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, United Methodist Church, UMC on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 | 2 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: Bishop James King on ‘Preaching Authority’
Posted in Bishops, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Bishop James King, episcopal leader of the United Methodist Church’s South Georgia Conference. Before being elected to the episcopacy in 2000, James R. King, Jr. served as a pastor in Alabama, California, and Tennessee, and as a District Superintendent in the Tennessee Conference. Prior to being assigned [...]
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 | Leave a Comment »
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: Dr. James Heidinger on ‘United Methodist Renewal’
Posted in Church Renewal, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a presentation by Dr. James V. Heidinger II, recently retired as the president and publisher of Good News, United Methodism’s flagship renewal ministry. Born into a political family in Illinois (his grandfather was a three-term U.S. Congressman and his father a state officeholder), Jim Heidinger decided his calling was in [...]
