MethodistThinker.com is enjoying a late-summer holiday. From now until Labor Day, in lieu of new postings, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features the leader who served for two decades as the bishop of the Los Angeles Area of The (United) Methodist Church: Bishop Gerald Kennedy. Born in Michigan and raised [...]
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Podcast: Bishop Gerald Kennedy on ‘The Marks of a Methodist’
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, United Methodist Men, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on August 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Podcast — Harry Denman: ‘Are We Making Christ Known?’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Laity, Sermons, United Methodist Men, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus from posting new material for several weeks. During this time, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2009. Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by Dr. Harry Denman. As young man in the 1920s, Harry Denman showed exceptional gifts in evangelism and [...]
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 [...]
Bill Bouknight: Methodists are saying ‘No’ to their leaders
Posted in Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, General Conference, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Writing in the May/June issue of the We Confess newsletter (PDF), published by the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church, editor Bill Bouknight says early results from the amendment-voting process should be sending a clear signal to denominational leaders. Those leaders are the Council of Bishops, the Connectional Table (47 clergy and laypersons), and [...]
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 [...]
A profile of Bishop James King
Posted in Bishops, Discipleship, Evangelism, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reporter Rodney Manley at The (Macon) Telegraph, Georgia’s third-largest circulation newspaper, has written a nice profile of Bishop James King. Bishop King was appointed earlier this year to be the episcopal leader of the South Georgia Conference. The full article is no longer online, but here is an excerpt: King is the South Georgia Conference’s [...]
Rock Eagle 2008: ‘Living life as a son of God’
Posted in Holiness, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Men, tagged Audio on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 46th annual Men’s Spiritual Retreat, sponsored by the North Georgia Conference United Methodist Men, wrapped up Sunday at the Rock Eagle center near Eatonton, Georgia. Following the theme, “Living Life as a Son of God,” the retreat included workshops on such topics as: A Husband’s Responsibility, Personal Holiness, Prayer and Fasting, and How to [...]
