MethodistThinker.com will be on hiatus from posting new material for the next several weeks. During this time, we will showcase podcasts from the fall of 2009.
The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season featured one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker.
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1911, [...]
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Podcast: Sir Alan Walker — ‘Christianity at the Crossroads’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Evangelism, Missions, Sermons, United Methodist Church on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The UMC needs what InterVarsity has
Posted in Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the wake of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s triennial missions conference, Urbana 09 (held Dec. 27-Dec. 31 in St. Louis), a leader with The Mission Society (formerly The Mission Society for United Methodists) notes that the Urbana conference offers a clear and encouraging sign that “God is calling a new generation to His mission.”
“I just finished [...]
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 into ‘national entities’ (Feb. [...]
Podcast: Terry Teykl on ‘Praying for the Lost’
Posted in Evangelism, Podcasts, Prayer, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The final podcast of our fall season features prayer leader Terry Teykl, author of Acts 29, The Presence-Based Church, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer.
Dr. Teykl, an elder in the Texas Annual Conference, is a “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging churches to develop and maintain prayer [...]
Podcast: Bishop William R. Cannon on ‘The Whole Gospel for the Whole World’
Posted in Bishops, Evangelism, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The current MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by the late Bishop William R. Cannon, a theologian and church historian who authored more than a dozen books, including History of Christianity in the Middle Ages, Theology of John Wesley, and Evangelism in a Contemporary Context.
William Ragsdale Cannon was born in Tennessee in 1916. He attended the [...]
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 last year [...]
