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Mission-minded conservative leaders in Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) launch new denomination

Posted in Church Renewal, Evangelism, Revival, Sermons, tagged , on January 30, 2012 | Comments Off

With a goal of fostering “flourishing churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ,” the Fellowship of Presbyterians, a group of more than 500 theologically conservative congregations of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has unveiled a new “denominational entity”: the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (ECO). The official unveiling occurred at a Jan. 18-20 Covenanting Conference in [...]

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Terry Teykl on becoming a ‘Presence-based church’

Posted in Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Prayer, Revival, United Methodist Church, tagged , on May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The following commentary is by Terry Teykl, author of The Presence-Based Church, My Most Wanted: 40 Days to Pray for the Lost, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. An elder in the Texas Annual Conference, Dr. Teykl is a “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging churches to [...]

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Palm Sunday: A prophetic picture of spiritual awakening

Posted in Prayer, Preaching, Revival, tagged on April 13, 2011 | 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 April 17. 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 [...]

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Prayers of biblical hope during Lent

Posted in Church Renewal, Prayer, Revival on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Beginning tomorrow and continuing through Palm Sunday on April 17, many Christians throughout the U.S. and around the world will be observing a 40-day season of prayer, roughly coinciding with the season of Lent. Here are the areas of prayer focus over the next several weeks, as described in the prayer guide, Seek God for [...]

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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 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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The Communion of Saints: August in Christian History

Posted in Camp Meeting, Christian/Methodist History, Revival on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

August 6, 1801: Revival hits a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky (as pictured in sketch below). Within a week, 25,000 were attending the revival services. Cane Ridge became the largest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening. Although the revival at Cane Ridge grew out of a Presbyterian gathering, it [...]

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Bill Bouknight: What I wish the Council of Bishops would say

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Holiness, Revival, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on April 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The United Methodist Council of Bishops issues occasional statements and letters intended to “provide spiritual leadership” to the church. Most recently (November 2009), the bishops issued a “pastoral letter” (PDF) asserting that “God’s creation is in crisis” and calling United Methodists to practice “social and environmental holiness by caring for God’s people and God’s planet [...]

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Bishop Lindsey Davis: The wind-and-flame faith of Pentecost

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Revival, United Methodist Church, tagged , on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The following reflection on Pentecost was written in 2000 by Bishop G. Lindsey Davis, now episcopal leader of the Kentucky Annual Conference and the Red Bird Missionary Conference. In many of our United Methodist churches, Pentecost Sunday will be observed only casually. For still others, no mention of Pentecost will be made at all. It [...]

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The Global Day of Prayer

Posted in Discipleship, Holiness, Missions, Prayer, Revival, tagged on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Stopping in for a brief visit last week at a United Methodist Church in Indiana, I was pleased to see a poster in the narthex indicating the congregation would be participating in this Sunday’s Global Day of Prayer. This international prayer event represents one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. The Global [...]

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Bishop James King: ‘We are returning to God’

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Holiness, Laity, Revival, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

South Georgia Bishop James King has a message for men in the Feb. 20 Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences. Professional economists suggest that the stock market has a way of correcting itself when things go to one extreme or the other. It appears that “correction” is a part [...]

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A Lenten focus: ‘Prayers of biblical hope’

Posted in Church Renewal, Evangelism, Prayer, Revival on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For many Christians Lent has been transformed from a season focused on self-denial to a season focused on passionate praying for the fulfillment of God’s purposes in the world. The catalyst for that transformation is Seek God for the City, a prayer guide published yearly since 1996 by Waymakers, a ministry based in Austin, Texas. [...]

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