The final podcast of our spring season features a conversation with Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church (Bristol House, 2010). To listen (7 min.), click the arrow on the audio player below — or download an mp3 file (6.7 MB). For [...]
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Podcast: Rob Renfroe on ‘The Truth About God’
Posted in Doctrine, Holiness, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This edition of the Methodist Thinker Mini-Podcast features a teaching excerpt from the Rev. Rob Renfroe, pastor of discipleship at The Woodlands (Texas) United Methodist Church and the president of the UM renewal ministry Good News. The excerpt is from a 2009 sermon series, “The Trouble with the Truth,” preached at The Woodlands UMC . [...]
Podcast: Steve Wende on electing delegates to GC 2012
Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. Stephen P. Wende, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church–Houston, Texas, urges the election of delegates to the 2012 UMC General Conference “who will represent God-honoring, Kingdom-focused, Christ-first, biblically strong positions.” He says that the outcome of this year’s elections will determine whether or not the future [...]
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 [...]
Introducing the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast
Posted in Doctrine, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on April 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The MethodistThinker Podcast has returned from hiatus with a new, shorter format. Rather than featuring longer-form presentations, as it has for the past two years, the refashioned podcast is only five minutes long. Each “mini” podcast will feature a brief teaching excerpt from a Methodist leader. We hope the shorter format will make the podcast [...]
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 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
Podcast: Bishop Alfred Norris on ‘Vitality in Ministry’
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, North Georgia Conference, Ordination, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris, currently interim president of Atlanta’s Gammon Theological Seminary. Born in Louisiana in 1938, Alfred Lloyd Norris was educated at Dillard University (New Orleans) and Gammon Seminary. After serving for 16 years as a United Methodist pastor and district superintendent in his native state, he [...]
Podcast — Billy Abraham: ‘Connecting Doctrine and Evangelism’
Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, General Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The premiere podcast of our fall 2010 season features 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 1947, William J. Abraham was educated at Queen’s University in Belfast, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and the University of Oxford [...]
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 | Leave a Comment »
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: 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 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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