Methodism category: 329 books
Jesus Insurgency
The Church Revolution from the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Crunching more data maybe helpful but will not revolutionize, let alone save, a declining church. We need creative thinking done by people who are not afraid to face the institutional church.
Indeed, the change we long for is already happening. It is happening on the margins in ministries to...
Guidelines Adult Ministries
Help Adults Love God and Neighbor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The adult ministry life span is the greatest and most diverse of any age level because it can encompass seven (or more) decades. An adult ministry that includes all adults encourages people to grow and mature in faith so they may be vital disciples for a lifetime.
Your congregation will have...
Guidelines Church & Society
Advocate and Witness for Peace and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
You are the leaders of your church’s involvement in social issues. As such, you will help your church members respond to social issues through education, making connection, and advocating for and responding to the needs of people around you and in the rest of God’s world. This Guideline is designed...
Living Faithfully
Human Sexuality and The United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
There is deep disagreement about what The United Methodist Church should teach about homosexuality, same gender marriage, and the ordination of LGBTQ persons. In 2019, a special session of General Conference will be held to consider these issues and how they will be addressed by The United Methodist...
This We Believe
The Core of Wesleyan Faith and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
For John Wesley, the Bible is the joyfully consistent testimony of God’s never-ending grace and ever-seeking love. Likewise, studying the Bible is more than merely knowing what Scripture says; it is also about living every day as a child of God.
Beginning with the Core Terms found in the...
by Joseph Beaumont Wakeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
This book is a collection of over 400 true stories about the Wesley family. Without question, the greater majority of these stories concern John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist church. However, there are many others about Samuel Wesley, Susanna Wesley, and Charles Wesley.
This is a great...
Entire Devotion to God
A Present to My Christian Friend on Entire Devotion to God
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the Introduction:
Permit me beloved one, to ask, Are you ready? Have you on the white robe? No longer think of holiness as a doctrine peculiar to a sect, but rather as a doctrine peculiar to the Bible, as the only fitness for admission to the society of the bloodwashed in Heaven....
The Way of the Wesleys
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Engaging, accessible survey of major Wesleyan theological themes
The Wesley brothers -- John (1703–1791) and Charles (1707–1788) -- are famous as the cofounders of the Wesleyan tradition and the Methodist family of churches. Their impact and legacy have been huge: what began as the excited...
by Christian Wismer Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
From the introduction (by G. A. McLaughlin) We are more than pleased to recommend, as well as introduce, the public to this book.
Brother Ruth, the author, excels in the presentation of scriptural holiness. He does this in a scriptural way by letting the Bible speak for itself.
In...
African Religion
The Quarry of the Rock of Monotheism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Worldwide scholarship has established the fact that Africa is the cradle land of humanity. Dr. Kurewa promotes the theory that African Religion could very easily have been the proto-religion of humanity, and a religion from which other monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity,...
by Alfred Cookman, George Lansing Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This work had its origin in a desire to present to the church, some of the best thoughts from the pen of Brother Cookman, as a means of diffusing the subject which of all others most absorbed him.
To enhance the force and beauty of "Stayed On God," we have thrown around it a few...
by Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
"American Methodist Worship is the most comprehensive history of worship among John Wesley's various American spiritual descendents that has ever been written. It will be a foundational book for anyone who wishes to understand how American Methodists have worshipped."-Sacramental Life "This groundbreaking...
The Wesleyan Way
A Faith That Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In this exciting and inspiring new study, Scott J. Jones helps seekers and believers to envision and practice discipleship as a way of life. Presenting Christianity from a Wesleyan perspective, Jones invites participants into a deeper, more thoughtful, more active commitment to Christ. This 8-session...
by Alfred Cookman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
These "Familiar Talks," or addresses, were prepared by Alfred Cookman, and delivered at meetings for the promotion of holiness, conducted by himself, during his three years' pastorate of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Delaware. They were written out in full by his own hand,...