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1. Why Am I A United Methodist?

I Timothy 1:12-17

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J. Howard Olds

... took his message to the open fields. When people believed, he organized them into societies and class meetings for spiritual support and accountability. Loving hearts set other hearts on fire. I am a United Methodist Christian today because I believe deeply in warm-hearted, experiential religion. III. UNITED METHODISTs BELIEVE IN HOLINESS OF HEART AND LIFE I am a United Methodist Christian today because I believe in the holiness of heart and life lived out in personal piety and in works of mercy for the ...

2. A Matter Of The Heart

Psalm 51:1-19

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John E. Harnish

... mind would go all the way to the heart of our identity. [1] He calls it "congregational cardiomyopathy": ...an ecclesiastical version of the medical condition that hardens the heart so that it is no longer able to function; it's the lack of heart-level clarity and warm-hearted passion about God's mission and vision for the church.[1] And it calls for nothing short of open heart surgery, going all the way to the center of our lives, to the heart of the matter, opening our hearts to the spirit of Christ and ...

3. Style: Some Distinctive Marks of a Methodist

Galatians 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... Now into that setting with those two characteristics spiritual apathy and a remote church structure came the Methodist revival with an answer to these two glaring devastating failures of the church. First, for spiritual apathy, there was the experience of the warm-heart, People wanted desperately not only to hear the gospel - they wanted to experience it. So Aldersgate became the model: “I felt my heart strangely warmed, I felt I did trust Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me ...

4. Giving

Mark 12:41-44

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Brett Blair

... know that either. Well, he thundered triumphantly, I've never given any of them a cent so why should I give anything to you." He had never given of himself therefore he never gave of his resources. Giving is an outgrowth. It is the inevitable result of the warmed heart. As we surrender ourselves to God and to loving our neighbor then we will want to give not only ourselves but our goods to him and to his church. We have put the cart before the horse. We say in the church: I give, therefore I am a Christian ...

5. It's Not a Snuggie Love

Mark 15:1-15, Mark 11:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... played with children. He prayed sometimes with his disciples, sometimes all alone. Jesus engaged everyone he met on all levels of their humanity. Cross-training Christians work out with worn hands and bended knees, as well as with warmed hearts and wondering heads. What Americans call “sneakers,” Brits call “trainers.” Sneakers/Trainers are flexible, made to move and grip the changing terrain, giving more spring to your step. Cross-training Christians expect, anticipate, and enjoy the challenge of ...

6. Surprised By Christmas

Isaiah 9:1-7

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King Duncan

... , and the stretched-out hand of tolerance all the shining gifts which make up peace on earth. Unquote. (4) That's God's surprise gift for the world: it is when you and I fill Christ's stocking with lovingkindness, warm hearts, and the stretched-out hand of tolerance all the shining gifts which make up peace on earth. 1. Robert Fulghum, MAYBE (MAYBE NOT) (New York: Villard Books, 1993) p. 57-63. 2. WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (Pennsylvania: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., 1992), pp. 73-75. 3. Maymie Richardson Krythe, ALL ...

7. We Hold These Truths To Be Essential

1 Peter 3:8-16

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J. Howard Olds

... , all that we believe today in this far removed congregation, is the lengthened shadow of an 18th Century priest of the Church of England by the name of John Wesley. He gave us a number of things; let me mention two. He gave us a deep belief in warm hearted religion. For thirty five years, he searched for peace with God. I think the search hasn't changed. I sense people today are searching for peace with God. He tried to find it in strict living. He formed a Holy Club with friends at Oxford University with ...

8. Counsel for Discouraged Disciples

Habakkuk 1:1-4

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... The only appropriate generalizing way I have found to describe them is to say that they were victims of unfortunate social circumstances. There was, for example, the lovely young Sunday church school boy more than forty years ago who was snatched from his warm-hearted adoptive home and put in the army to be made a killer for World War II. Though he was not physically injured, he was effectively destroyed. Through all the years since he has been staring vacantly into unknowing nothingness within the walls of ...

9. What Form of Church Does God Want for the Furture?

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

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Raymond Gibson

... you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (John 8:31-32). Paul did this, and look at what happened to him. He was transformed from Saul, a murderous, hard-hearted Pharisee, into Paul, a loving, warm-hearted Christian apostle. Martin Luther did this, and God enabled him to bring about a change that saved the church of the sixteenth century. John Wesley did this, and founded the Methodist Church and saved England. You and I can help God transform our church in ...

10. The Gift Of Encouragement

Acts 11:19-30

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Erskine White

... just looked at me and said, "The church needs people like you," and that planted a seed. It encouraged me to think that yes, maybe I was good enough for the ministry; maybe God did need someone like me. I'll always be grateful to that strait-laced, warm-hearted Episcopal priest who gave me the gift of encouragement at just the right time in my life. Of course, we can also be encouraged in just the everyday affairs of our lives. That's why I always hate to see parents putting down their children and calling ...

11. The Third Sunday of Easter

Luke 24:13-35

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Kendall McCabe

... and believe. Mrs. Campbell's stories and her stuffed kitten brought a new world into reality for a little child in southern Maryland. The church's story and the bread broken for the world's hungry, whether in body or spirit, the story and bread together, will warm hearts and open eyes to the fact that, by God's grace, we practice what we preach. Victim Divine, thy grace we claim While thus thy precious death we show: Once offered up, a spotless Lamb, In thy great temple here below, Thou didst for all the ...

12. The Things In Mary's Heart

Isaiah 9:1-7

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King Duncan

... heart to which she could inwardly retire. St. Teresa of Avila called it an "interior castle of the soul" that no cares or fears could storm. Mary, the mother of Jesus, must have had a little interior castle of her own. Luke, in his tender and warm-hearted way, concludes his version of the Christmas story by telling us that Mary "kept these things and pondered them in her heart." What were the things Mary kept in her heart? We can only speculate, of course. But some things seem to jump out from this “the ...

13. No Room for Jesus

Luke 2:1-7

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King Duncan

... to hang it up. The stocking for the child born in a manger. It’s his birthday we’re celebrating. Don’t let us ever forget that. “Let us ask ourselves what He would wish for most. And then, let each put in his share, loving kindness, warm hearts, and a stretched out hand of tolerance. All the shinning gifts that make peace on earth.” (5) Wouldn’t that be a wonderful tradition for us to begin in our households this Christmas Eve? Hang up an extra stocking for the Christ child. And, perhaps, put in ...

14. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

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Brett Blair

... best church affiliated schools, yet my heart is heavy. I need a sense of direction. I am confused. Which way do I turn? There are educated people out there today that are not looking for more theories--they are looking for what John Wesley called the religion of the warmed heart. Jesus said: Nicodemus, you must be born again. You see friends, it is easy to get caught up in the form of religion and lose touch with the reality of God. We can get so caught up in doing church work, that we fail to be the church ...

15. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

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... be remembered that Jesus was not a rigid, judgmental dogmatist. He was not laying down a law so much as he was pointing the way to authentic living. His words were not the imperious proclamations of an authoritarian ruler or judge, but the warm-hearted counsel and injunction of a concerned teacher and friend. As a sociologist would say, he outlined an ideal typology toward which he enjoined his followers to strive. That any one of them, much less all of them, would perfectly embrace the ideal was neither ...

16. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

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... wrong. I have been to the very best church affiliated schools, yet my heart is heavy. I need a sense of direction. And there are educated people out there today that are not looking for more theories--they are looking for what John Wesley called the religion of the warmed heart. Jesus said: Nicodemus, you must be born again. You see friends, it is easy to get caught up in the form of religion and lose touch with the reality of God. We can get so caught up in doing church work, that we fail to be the church ...

17. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... to love, more chances to serve, more chances to give, more chances to pray, more chances to see the Bible get up off the page, more chances to see the Holy Spirit break through, another chance to become a wiser and better man, another chance to feel the warm heart of Jesus. My long term observation is that God knows just which text I’m preaching and sends challenges to illumine his Word in practical ways. Will I obey during the week what I preach to you on Sunday? Lori is used to me walking in the door ...

18. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... that Christ is the Savior of the entire world. He is not the Savior of a small homogeneous group alone. I may be cold and stiff with little ability to express my emotions, but he is my Savior just as surely as he is the Savior of the warm-hearted believer who jumps three pews to express his conviction. He is the Lord and Father of us all. This brings us to the final thing to be said, and that is concerning the missionary nature of Pentecost. The Christian movement was never intended to be an exclusive club ...

19. Worship Like A Wesley

Philippians 4:4-9

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John E. Harnish

... Oxford University, it grew up on the American frontier. 2. OUR WORSHIP HAS ALWAYS BROUGHT TOGETHER A LOVE FOR LITURGY WITH THE REVIVAL FIRE OF THE FRONTIER. Here, on this continent, Methodist circuit riders spread the message of personal salvation and the warm heart of the Wesleys, with a passion and vitality that ultimately reshaped the American frontier—an evangelistic revival of the spirit which was carried in the hymnals stuffed in the saddle bags of the circuit riders who moved from town to town with ...

20. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

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Robert Beringer

... Emmanuel in our inward lives: Augustine was a frivolous libertine until Jesus changed his inner spirit and brought forth a spiritual giant. Francis of Assisi was a self-seeking dilettante when Christ changed him into a self-sacrificing servant of the needy and warm-hearted lover of nature. In our own times it has been Emmanuel's touch upon people like singer Ethel Waters, atomic scientist William Pollard, onetime agnostic C. S. Lewis and writer Dorothy Day that has made a radical difference in the lives of ...

21. Ready or Not, Here He Comes!

Luke 3:1-20

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David E. Leininger

... all that. At this time of year, we hear a great deal about Scrooge...always a metaphor for someone who is mean-spirited, miserly, and miserable. But the Scrooge of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" repented, and by the end of the story becomes a generous warm-hearted benefactor. Why do we remember only the rotten in him? Is it because the world remains unconvinced of the possibility of change? Or perhaps it is that misery loves company. If no one else can change, neither should I be expected to change. John says ...

22. Make Room for Mystery

Isaiah 55:1-13

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James McCormick

... I believe that. I believe that deeply! So, hear me loud and clear: there is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. The failure to develop our minds is poor stewardship of a God given gift. In the Christian tradition in which I was raised, there was a two-fold emphasis: the warm heart and the enlightened mind. I am proud of that. I am proud to be a part of a Church that does not ask you to park your brain before coming to worship. I am sure that God expects us to use our minds to their fullest capacity! But there is ...

23. A Good-bye Topping All Others

Luke 24:44-53

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Donald Charles Lacy

... also with us. Thus, sayeth the Lord! Knowing and thoroughly believing this ought to make us humble, sincere, and confident in the Lord. Daily confession of our sins of omission and commission is nothing more than good common Christian sense. A warm heart and willing spirit that is open to granting forgiveness to our comrades is nothing more than a reasonable expectation. The long-suffering Christ paid the price and continues to pay it from his heavenly throne. There was confirmation that we were witnesses ...

24. Ready Or Not, Here He Comes!

Luke 3:7-18

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David E. Leininger

... all that. At this time of year, we hear a great deal about Scrooge... always a metaphor for someone who is mean-spirited, miserly, and miserable. But the Scrooge of Dickens' A Christmas Carol repented and by the end of the story becomes a generous warm hearted benefactor. Why do we remember only the rotten in him? Is it because the world remains unconvinced of the possibility of change? Or perhaps it is that misery loves company. If no one else can change, neither should I be expected to change. John says ...

25. Out of the Darkness

Isaiah 9:2-7

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King Duncan

... when an unparalleled amount of blood was being shed in our beloved land, that division is hardly worth contemplating. And yet, during that terrible time, the Spirit of God was leading men and women of sensitive spirits to write music that will forever warm hearts wherever Christian believers gather together to celebrate the Lord’s birth. There is a message here—a message of profound hope. Listen to the word for this day from Isaiah: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those ...

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