Posts Tagged With: John Wesley
Stewardship According to John Wesley
An outline of John Wesley‘s Sermon on Stewardship: “The Good Steward” Summary: Wesley uses this sermon to explain that we as God’s Stewards are not the owners of what God entrust to us, but temporary custodians. This applies to our souls, bodies, possessions, time, abilities and opportunities. Wesley states in this sermon that there will [...]
The Danger of Riches
“The Danger of Riches” 1 Timothy 6:9 Summary: As the population of the Methodist grew, the found themselves with more members who were wealthy. Wesley used this sermon to speak on the dangers of wealth and how it could be inlet to sin. He describes how people should gain as much as they can, save [...]
John Wesley’s View on Money
As we begin our sermon series on the use of money, I thought it would be appropriate to give you an outline on John Wesley‘s view of money. This sermon can be broken down to 3 points: Gain All You Can, Save All You Can, and Give All You Can. “The Use of Money” Summary: [...]
What Is It? The Wesley Quadrilateral…
The Wesley quadrilateral is a method of exploring and understanding God. John Wesley adopted and adapted three of these position from the Church of England (Scripture, Reason, and Tradition), and he added Experience to form the quadrilateral. Scripture John Wesley believed as I do, that Scripture must be primary among the other sources. Wesley believed [...]
The Sacrament of Holy Communion
The sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion are crucial means of grace, or vehicles, that God uses to reach humanity. They are channels by which the grace and love of God flows, and it is through them that we can receive prevenient, justifying, and sanctifying grace. They are outward and visible signs of an inward, [...]
Communion by Rev Ted Leach
For me, communion is a way of receiving God’s undeserved love, which we sometimes call grace. I cup my hands to receive the bread as a gesture of receptiveness. The bread and the cup are reminders of Jesus’ last supper with his disciples, which was a celebration of the Passover meal on the night that [...]
Hold Yourself Accountable (Wesley Style)
I was doing some research today and I ran across these questions that are similar to the ones that John Wesley gave to the members of his discipleship groups. This was over 200 years ago and they are still good questions for Christians to ask themselves today. I challenge you to make these questions a [...]
Devout and Holy Life
The following is an article written by and used with permission from Ted Leach. Enjoy, I did. Somewhere along the way a simple idea became a doctrinal bone of contention. There was a man named William Law (1686-1761) who wrote a book entitled A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. That [...]
Connect, Grow and Serve
It’s 12:28 Tuesday morning and I can’t sleep. The movers will be here at the crack of dawn, and I can’t sleep. Jackson, the dogs and even the crickets have gone to bed and I can’t sleep. I’ve tried, I’ve read, I’ve prayed, I’ve surfed the web, and counted sheep but I can’t sleep. I’m [...]
