Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry Waymakers, offers interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday, which this year is celebrated on April 1. He notes that in the days leading up to the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, Jesus had “instigated a movement of hope throughout the towns and villages of the entire [...]
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Palm Sunday: A prophetic portrait of spiritual awakening
Posted in Prayer, Preaching, Revival, Sermons, tagged Audio on March 30, 2012 |
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 [...]
A word from Mr. Wesley: ‘The way to the kingdom’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Preaching, Sermons on March 2, 2011 |
This is the third in our monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is from John Wesley’s sermon, “The Way to the Kingdom.” The wording has been slightly updated from the original, based on the adaptation found in Renew My [...]
A word from Mr. Wesley: ‘The first doctrine’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Holiness, Preaching, Revival, United Methodist Church on February 2, 2011 |
This is the second installment of a monthly MethodistThinker feature for 2011 that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement. Because the use of language changes with the passage of time, the wording in these excerpts has been slightly updated, based on the adaptation found in Renew My Heart [...]
Adam Hamilton: How the UMC can have ‘a future with hope’
Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Leadership Development, Media, Preaching, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
To reverse the United Methodist Church’s decades-long membership decline in the United States, local UM churches must embrace innovation and commit themselves to constant improvement, according to Adam Hamilton, leader of one of the UMC’s largest and most successful churches. Hamilton, founder and senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (COR) in [...]
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 [...]
The top ten MethodistThinker posts of 2009
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on December 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The following are our ten most-viewed posts of 2009 (the date of each post date is in parentheses): Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ (Oct. 12) In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy (June 29) Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ (March 26) Proposed amendments would separate UMC [...]
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 |
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 [...]
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 [...]
Podcast: Bill Hinson on ‘The Making of a Minister’
Posted in Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on August 17, 2009 |
While production continues on the upcoming fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast, we’re highlighting several podcasts from our spring season. This week, a sermon by the late Dr. Bill Hinson, long-time pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Houston, Texas. During his 18-year tenure at First UMC-Houston, more than 3,000 people joined that congregation [...]
Podcast: John Wesley on ‘The New Birth’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on August 10, 2009 |
Over the next several weeks, while production continues on the upcoming fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast, we’re highlighting several podcasts from our spring season, beginning with our debut program below. We could think of no better person to feature on our premiere program than the founder of the Methodist movement: Anglican clergyman John Wesley. [...]
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