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Palm Sunday: A prophetic portrait of spiritual awakening

Posted in Prayer, Preaching, Revival, Sermons, tagged on March 30, 2012 |

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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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 |

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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Bishop Timothy Whitaker: United Methodists must stand against ‘violence of abortion’

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Politics, Sermons, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on January 23, 2012 |

Jan. 22 marked the 39th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Taken together, the two rulings (authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, a United Methodist) effectively voided dozens of state laws aimed at protecting unborn children from abortion. Since then, abortion doctors have [...]

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A word from Mr. Wesley: Power over sin

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Holiness, Sermons on July 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This is the latest in a monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is condensed from “The Marks of the New Birth,” Sermon 18 among Mr. Wesley’s standard sermons. For easier reading, some of the wording in this condensation has [...]

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Podcast: Rob Renfroe on ‘The Truth About God’

Posted in Doctrine, Holiness, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , 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 . [...]

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A word from Mr. Wesley: ‘You must be born again’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Sermons on June 1, 2011 |

This is the latest in a monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is condensed from “The New Birth,” Sermon 45 among Mr. Wesley’s standard sermons. For easier reading, some of the wording in this condensation has been slightly updated, [...]

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Introducing the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast

Posted in Doctrine, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , 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 [...]

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A word from Mr. Wesley: The sure cornerstone of our faith

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Holiness, Sermons, United Methodist Church on April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This is the latest 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 condensed from “Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount—13,” one of many sermons Mr. Wesley preached on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). For easier [...]

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Breaking the covenant: Why aren’t ‘Reconciling’ churches being held to account?

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, Ethics, General Conference, Holiness, Sermons, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on March 21, 2011 | 33 Comments »

The following commentary is by Wesley Putnam, a full-time evangelist in the UMC and former president of the National Association of United Methodist Evangelists. Below, Mr. Putnam provides an eyewitness account of a Feb. 27 church conference at University United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas, at which the church voted to affiliate with the pro-homosexuality [...]

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Charles Wesley on ‘The cause and cure of earthquakes’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Sermons on March 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Friday’s massive earthquake in Japan raises an age-old question: Is God is the author of “natural disasters”? Methodist co-founder Charles Wesley spoke to this question in a sermon first delivered in 1750, an edited text of which is below. (Wesley also composed two volumes of earthquake-related hymns.) The version of Wesley’s sermon presented here has [...]

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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 [...]

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