Tag: United Methodist Church
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Churches comfort after Ohio school tragedy – UMC.org
Words cannot express the sadness of this situation. Even though we live in a culture, that many times, has little need of the church, there are somethings that drive us back to God. Lord, we do need you. We need you now more than ever before. Here’s an article from UMC.org telling how some United…
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Perfect Desire
Christian Perfection was one of the defining elements of John Wesley’s theology and also one of the most controversial. Beginning a sermon entitled Christian Perfection Wesley acknowledges how people respond to the idea of being perfected in this life. There is scarce any expression in Holy Writ which has given more offence than this. The…
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Newer Mind
One of Wesley’s later sermons was “On God’s Vineyard” which was written in 1779. This sermon reads like a reflection of how God has worked through Wesley’s life and some observations Wesley made. One such observation was about the new birth. Wesley was a man who wasn’t satisfied with ‘outward’ religion. Wesley believed that in…
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General Conference and Central Conferences
Ben Witherington has posted an article explaining a bit about General Conference (which is meeting as I write this). He discusses some of the issues that will be addressed. Perhaps the most important issue is the proposal to create a central conference in the US. This proposal says that US concerns would be addressed in…
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Revisiting Holiness part 2
Here is the first article and third article in this series. One of the mistakes I made when I viewed holiness was believing it was a matter of will power. Holiness seemed like something I could attain if I could work hard enough. Since I felt it was all about my will power, I found…