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 »
Toward Palm Sunday
Posted in Prayer, Preaching, Revival, tagged Audio on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry, Waymakers, offers several interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday, which this year is celebrated on March 28. 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 [...]
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 United Methodist Church, UMC 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 | 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 [...]
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 | 2 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 | Leave a Comment »
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 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
Podcast: Dr. Bill Hinson on ‘The Making of a Minister
Posted in Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features 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 on profession of faith. In 1985, Dr. Hinson was honored with Denman Evangelism Award. In 2000, the [...]
Podcast: Bill Bouknight on ‘The Resurrection of Jesus Christ’
Posted in Doctrine, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted below is this week’s MethodistThinker Podcast, featuring an Easter sermon by Dr. Bill Bouknight. Dr. Bouknight retired in 2007 after serving 41 years as a Methodist pastor, first in South Carolina and later in Tennessee. He is the author of The Authoritative Word: Preaching Truth in a Skeptical Age (Abingdon, 2001) and If Disciples [...]
Podcast: John Wesley on ‘The New Birth’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Evangelism, Media, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, tagged Audio on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Posted below is the debut edition of The MethodistThinker Podcast, featuring timeless teaching by Methodist pastors and leaders. This week, a sermon by the founder of the movement: Anglican clergyman John Wesley! Click the audio player below for details — or download an mp3. (The podcast is 11-and-a-half minutes.) ∞ Next week, a sermon by [...]
