The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC’s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) [...]
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Podcast: Rob Renfroe on ‘The Truth About God’
Posted in Doctrine, Holiness, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church 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 . [...]
Call to Action member: We must foster vital congregations or ‘we do not have a future with hope’
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church, Video on June 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A member of the United Methodist Church’s Call to Action Steering Team says the team’s task was to be “prophetic” and to avoid the “terminal niceness” that has long inhibited realistic discussion of the challenges facing the denomination. “We were asked to do a deep study of the church,” the Rev. Jorge Acevedo, lead pastor [...]
Podcast: Steve Wende on electing delegates to GC 2012
Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. Stephen P. Wende, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church–Houston, Texas, urges the election of delegates to the 2012 UMC General Conference “who will represent God-honoring, Kingdom-focused, Christ-first, biblically strong positions.” He says that the outcome of this year’s elections will determine whether or not the future [...]
Podcast — George Hunter: Can the once-great Methodist movement become a movement again?
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Politics, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. George Hunter of Asbury Seminary details how Methodism, at least in its institutional United Methodist form, has become what it was once a reaction against. In his remarks, recorded earlier this year at United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. Hunter asks if “a once great movement” — [...]
Terry Teykl on becoming a ‘Presence-based church’
Posted in Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Prayer, Revival, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church 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 [...]
Podcast — Bishop Lindsey Davis: Will the UMC have the courage to do what needs to be done?
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Evangelism, General Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Bishop Lindsey Davis of the Kentucky Annual Conference says the United Methodist Church must repent of its missional lethargy and re-commit itself to the purposes of God in Jesus Christ if it hopes to have renewed life. In his remarks, recorded last fall at a meeting of the [...]
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