Download or read book The Wesley Offering Or Wesley and His Times written by David HOLMES (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Washed and Waiting written by Wesley Hill and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet many who sit next to us in the pew at church fit that description, says author Wesley Hill. As a celibate gay Christian, Hill gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to wrestle firsthand with God's ''No'' to same-sex relationships. What does it mean for gay Christians to live faithful to God while struggling with the challenge of their homosexuality? What is God's will for believers who experience same-sex desires? Those who choose celibacy are often left to deal with loneliness and the hunger for relationships. How can gay Christians experience God's favor and blessing in the midst of a struggle that for many brings a crippling sense of shame and guilt? Weaving together reflections from his own life and the lives of other Christians, such as Henri Nouwen and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hill offers a fresh perspective on these questions. He advocates neither unqualified ''healing'' for those who struggle, nor their accommodation to temptation, but rather faithfulness in the midst of brokenness. ''I hope this book may encourage other homosexual Christians to take the risky step of opening up their lives to others in the body of Christ,'' Hill writes. ''In so doing, they may find, as I have, by grace, that being known is spiritually healthier than remaining behind closed doors, that the light is better than the darkness.

Download or read book John Wesley in Company with High Churchmen written by Harrington William Holden and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from Wesley's writings printed in parallel columns with Holden's explanation of Anglican doctrines.

Download or read book The Wesley Offering written by David Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Simple Rules for Money written by Rev. Dr. James A. Harnish and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it take for you to make a radical change in the way you earn, save, and spend your money? On a deeper level, what would be required for us to experience a fundamental shift in the relationship between our faith and our finances? - From the Introduction Faith and finances—these two areas of our lives sometimes seem poles apart. And yet, shouldn’t our finances be shaped by our faith? Guided by the Bible and the timeless wisdom of John Wesley, popular author James A. Harnish challenges Christians to face the issue of money head-on, with God’s help. Ideal for individual or group use, this book’s contents include: When Crisis Forces Change Gain All You Can: A New Opportunity Save All You Can: The New Frugality Give All You Can: A New Generosity

Download or read book Offering Christ written by Jack Jackson and published by Kingswood Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of conversation serving up a mosaic of understandings of Wesleyan evangelism (focusing on proclamation, initiation, and embodiment), Jack Jackson offers a clearer portrait of Wesley’s evangelistic vision, understood through the lens of “offering grace.” Any discussion of Wesley’s vision of evangelism must center on the proclamation of the story of God in Christ. But for John Wesley evangelism was much more than preaching for conversion. This book offers a fresh conception of Wesley’s evangelistic vision by analyzing his method of gospel proclamation. Wesley was not constrained by the truncated vision of evangelism that has been dominant since the late nineteenth century, one that all too often centers on group preaching with a sole emphasis on conversion. Rather, he stressed a number of practices that focus on a verbal proclamation of the gospel. These practices occur in a variety of settings, only one of which is public preaching, and result in a number of responses, only one of which is conversion. Of crucial importance for current theological students, clergy, and church leaders around the world, the book demonstrates that visitation, for the purpose of spiritual direction and evangelism, was in many ways the critical leadership and pastoral practice of early British Methodism. This book offers important insights into early Methodism that inform both contemporary practices of evangelism and Christian leadership for both clergy and laity.

Download or read book John Wesley in Company with High Churchmen written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Download or read book John Wesley s Class Meeting written by D. Michael Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican priest and Oxford tutor. He and George Whitefield were the primary leaders of the Evangelical Awakening which had a profound effect on the spiritual, social, and political life of both England and colonial America. Wesley gathered converts into a network of small groups for personal accountability, behavioral change, leadership training, and the transformation of their communities. Central to his system was the "class meeting," which proved to be one of the most effective tools for making disciples ever developed. This study examines the historical development, the theological foundation, and the social outcomes of John Wesley's class meeting.

Download or read book John Wesley in company with High Churchmen parallel passages selected by an old Methodist H W Holden written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wesley and the Anglicans written by Ryan Nicholas Danker and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Wesleyan Methodists and the Anglican evangelicals divide during the middle of the eighteenth century? Many say it was based narrowly on theological matters. Ryan Nicholas Danker suggests that politics was a major factor driving them apart. Rich in detail, this study offers deep insight into a critical juncture in evangelicalism and early Methodism.

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies written by William J. Abraham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the decision to provide of a scholarly edition of the Works of John Wesley in the 1950s, Methodist Studies emerged as a fresh academic venture. Building on the foundation laid by Frank Baker, Albert Outler, and other pioneers of the discipline, this handbook provides an overview of the best current scholarship in the field. The forty-two included essays are representative of the voices of a new generation of international scholars, summarising and expanding on topical research, and considering where their work may lead Methodist Studies in the future. Thematically ordered, the handbook provides new insights into the founders, history, structures, and theology of Methodism, and into ongoing developments in the practice and experience of the contemporary movement. Key themes explored include worship forms, mission, ecumenism, and engagement with contemporary ethical and political debate.

Download or read book Washed and Waiting written by Wesley Hill and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book written primarily for gay Christians and those who love them. Part memoir, part pastoral-theological reflection, this book wrestles with three main areas of struggle that many gay Christians face: (1) What is God’s will for sexuality? (2) If the historic Christian tradition is right and same-sex behavior is ruled out, how should gay Christians deal with their resulting loneliness? (3) How can gay Christians come to an experience of grace that rescues them from crippling feelings of shame and guilt? Author Wesley Hill is not advocating that it is possible for every gay Christian to become straight, nor is he saying that God affirms homosexuality. Instead, Hill comes alongside gay Christians and says, “You are not alone. Here is my experience; it’s like yours. And God is with us. We can share in God’s grace.” While some authors profess a deep faith in Christ and claim a powerful experience of the Holy Spirit precisely in and through their homosexual practice, Hill’s own story, by contrast, is a story of feeling spiritually hindered, rather than helped, by his homosexuality. His story testifies that homosexuality was not God’s original creative intention for humanity—that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin—and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God’s express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ. This book is written mainly for those homosexual Christians who are trying to walk the narrow path of celibacy and are convinced that their discipleship to Jesus necessarily commits them to the demanding, costly obedience of choosing not to nurture their homosexual desires. With reflections from the lives of Henri Nouwen and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wesley Hill encourages and challenges Christians with homosexual desires to live faithful to God’s plan for human sexuality.

Download or read book John Wesley in Company with High Churchmen written by Harrington William Holden and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Download or read book John Wesley in America written by Geordan Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book length study of John Wesley's period as a missionary in colonial Georgia. The mission was a laboratory for implementing his views of primitive Christianity. The ideal of restoring the doctrine, discipline, and practice of the early church in the Georgia wilderness was a prime motivation for Wesley's missionary activity.

Download or read book John Wesley in Company with High Churchmen written by Harrington William Holden and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...begging, by human interest, by bazaars, by balls, &c, is" willingly offered' to the honour of God; and becomes, instead of a money-payment for value received, an act of acceptable worship. And never may it be forgotten that the poor widow's offering of two mites, which obtained from our Lord such imperishable praise, was a casting into the Church's treasury. 6. NO PEWS, BUT BENCHES FREE ALIKE FOR RICH AND POOR. High Churchmen. If there be one point on which Holy Scripture is emphatic, and express beyond a doubt, it is that it is wrong and contrary to God's will, to show respect to worldly distinction in that House which is His--it is that the assignment of good places to the rich in goodly apparel, while the poor are relegated to the worst and most distant places, is sinful, and 1111brotherly. How any one can 1 Wesley, 1737-1787. "The Committee proposed to me, (1) That families of men and women should sit togetherin both chapels; (2) That every one who took a pew should have it as his own: thus overthrowing at one blow the discipline which I have been establishing for fifty years V Jl. Dec. i, 1787. "From the beginning of Methodism the men and women sat apart, as they always did in the High Churchmen. read S. James ii. r-9, and yet doubt this, is incomprehensible to men of ordinary understanding, and has never been explained. As respects the practice in Parish Churches, it is contrary to English Law and was unknown even to custom until that dark age of the Church--the latter half of the 17th and the whole of the 18th centuries--an age which for its gross spiritual neglect, its sheer worldliness, and its unmitigated selfishness is without a parallel. Indeed, in almost every village there are men yet living who...

Download or read book The Life and Times of the Rev John Wesley Founder of the Methodists written by L ..... Tyerman and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: