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 [...]
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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 |
Podcast: Bill Bouknight on ‘The Resurrection of Jesus Christ’
Posted in Doctrine, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons on April 6, 2009 |
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 [...]
Coming soon: The MethodistThinker Podcast
Posted in Bishops, Leadership Development, Media, Preaching, United Methodist Church on March 23, 2009 |
A recent post by Southern Baptist blogger Trevin Wax has stirred my thinking about how bishops and other UM leaders can more effectively sow into the lives of younger pastors and leaders. I continue to see articles and hear comments about the loss of young pastors from the ranks of the [Southern Baptist Convention]…. To [...]
Billy Abraham on United Methodism: ‘There is no common faith among us’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, General Conference, Laity, Preaching, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on January 29, 2009 |
Speaking earlier this month at the United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. William J. (Billy) Abraham said the seeds of United Methodism’s 40-year decline were sown inadvertently by one of the “founding fathers” of the denomination, the late Albert C. Outler. (Outler chaired the Theological Study Commission appointed by the General Conference when the United [...]
For the pastor on your Christmas gift list
Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, Stewardship on December 16, 2008 |
Looking for just the right gift for a preacher? I suggest Warren Lathem and Dan Dunn’s book, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity, released earlier this year by Bristol House. The authors (Lathem has served as a pastor, district superintendent, and seminary president; Dunn has been a pastor, associate pastor, and [...]
Astonishing preaching
Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, tagged Audio on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In a commencement address today at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., seminary president Albert Mohler quoted at length from an influential 1971 book by Fred Craddock (then at Phillips University, later a professor of preaching at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology). That book, As One Without Authority, launched something of a [...]
Preaching for a response
Posted in Discipleship, Evangelism, North Georgia Conference, Preaching on August 8, 2008 |
Former North Georgia pastor and district superintendent Warren Lathem is the co-author with Dan Dunn of a new book titled, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity (Bristol House). A good friend of mine, writer Beverly Varnado, has this to say about it: I know first hand the effects of Dr. Lathem’s [...]
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