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John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "Do you expect that you will see John Wesley in heaven?" "No," answered Whitefield. "That's what I thought you would say," his questioner replied. "But you don't know what I mean," said Whitefield. "Wesley will be so far up there near the ... been felt ever since. As you celebrate this Christmas season, as you think about the shepherds and the wise men and the star and Mary and Joseph and all the rest of the important figures and events of that first Christmas, remember another small child six months of age ...

2. Future Perfect

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." [16] Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). [17] Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have ... beside me, Christ within me, never to part." D. John Wesley knew. On his dying bed, John Wesley's last words were, "And best of all, Christ is with us." In his dying breath, John Wesley knew the Tomb was empty because Christ Jesus was present ...

3. High Anxiety

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , the Greek text tells us, Jesus says, “you are anxious and turbulent.” She replies, “my sister left me to serve.” What was Mary doing? The Greek text says, she sat by the feet of Jesus and heard his Word. The Greek text reveals some interesting things ... soul. And he left a new person. When his family noted the change in him, they inquired what had happened. After all, Wesley was continuing to do the same ministries of service. But what had changed was inside of him. Instead of doing them because he ...

4. Home Miserable Home

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Warren Wiersbe

... concern was to ask her to marry him. If we were writing fiction we might say that the sprained ankle was God's providential way to bring those people together. But the marriage was a disaster, and Mary finally left John. Had Wesley consulted with his brother Charles, and asked for the prayers of the brethren, he might have avoided that unfortunate situation. Mary was accustomed to her quiet home, and it was difficult for her to travel with her husband and stay in uncomfortable inns. It is unfortunate that ...

5. The Church Of Our Dreams

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... say anything. They got out of the car and walked in just as the delivery man finished setting up their new furniture. You know, Herman, said Mary once more, "If it were not for my money, we probably wouldn't have this new carpet and all this new furniture." And once more, ... meant: "As to all opinions which do not strike at the root of Christianity, we think and let think." Remember now, Wesley was talking about things that do not strike at the root of Christianity. Does our mode of baptism -- how we baptize ...

6. Don't Be Afraid of the Future

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... miracles, and fellowshipped with his friends over supper? Can’t we turn back the clock? You and I should be able to empathize with Mary. We have lots of schemes designed to slow down or reverse the clock. We are part of a youth-glorifying, death-denying culture. After ... bit concerned about John Wesley; I’m worried about Earl Hunt.” So much in this fast-changing and frightening world scares us. None of us, of any age, has a guarantee of a normal life span. Jesus told the two Marys on the first Easter ...

7. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... aborted? Johannes Brahms' mother was 41 when he was born. Suppose she had had an abortion. John Wesley was the 15th of 19 children born to Suzanna Wesley. Suppose she had wanted to use abortion as a method of birth control and had stopped ... she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord." (verses 41 - 45) It is thus that Mary sings that joyful song -- the Magnificat:"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." Now we know that this song ...

8. The Vulnerable Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... interests and publications have been especially strong in the area of marriage and family counseling. His sermon The Vulnerable Christ was delivered in a chapel service at Wesley Theological Seminary. The Pieta is an arresting image of Jesus and his mother. The wounded, dead Christ - too slender, too vulnerable - held in the arms of the large earth mother, Mary. Michelangelo made the two out of proportion; however, one does not notice it, so struck is one by the magnificent conception in Saint Peter’s or ...

9. Only Matthew…Only Joseph

Matthew 1:1-13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... and offers them as the name of the one who comes among us, even this child, even Joseph's son. As Charles Wesley says it: Veiled in flesh the God-head see Hail the incarnate deity Pleased with us in flesh to dwell Jesus our ... down here to settle things once and for all. God has already spoken. He has spoken in the form of a child born to Joseph and Mary, spoken through the parables of an itinerant teacher and healer, spoken in the life of one who has inspired the ages, spoken ultimately from a cross ...

10. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the New York World's Fair in 1965. He was moved by the beauty of the work, the perfection with which the sculpture had captured Mary's sorrow as she held the lifeless body of Jesus in her arms. He remembered the emotion that welled up within him as he ... outgrowths of his preaching. They were the follow up, the personalizing of the Gospel message within the loving communities of equal spirit. Wesley remembered one of the meetings that evening and he wrote about it in his journal in this fashion, "while a poor ...

11. Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Brett Blair

... lifted. With these events in view let us turn not to the UN, not to any world leader, but to a young peasant girl named Mary, for it is HER words that are illustrated by these world events. Let’s consider that it was SHE that gave birth to the Revolution ... a poor girl came to the door of our Methodist founder, John Wesley. It was a bitterly cold day but she was wearing just a thin linen gown. She was shivering and her teeth were chattering. Wesley gave her what little money he had. Later he looked around his ...

12. Mary's Revolutionary Song (Sermon Series No. 3)

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . The Bible tilts in the direction of the widow and the orphan, the least of these my brethren. III THE THIRD REVOLUTION ANNOUNCED BY MARY IS ECONOMIC IN NATURE. In verse 53 we read, “He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty ... a poor girl came to the door of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church. It was a bitterly cold day but she was wearing just a thin linen gown. She was shivering and her teeth were chattering. Wesley gave her what little money he had. Later he ...

13. Respect: Lesson for Victorious Living

Ruth 4:1-12

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... Its "Studies and Commentaries," published both in 1982 and 1984 are worth careful reading. Those denominational families tracing their origins to John Wesley would do well to read, with care, his "A Letter to a Roman Catholic," especially when he writes of Christ’s birth in terms of "being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin." The ecumenical movement has remained ...

14. Mary's Revolutionary Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is. The Bible tilts in the direction of the widow and the orphan, the least of these my brethren. THE THIRD REVOLUTION ANNOUNCED BY MARY IS ECONOMIC IN NATURE. In verse 53 we read, "He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty ... poor girl came to the door of our Methodist founder, John Wesley. It was a bitterly cold day but she was wearing just a thin linen gown. She was shivering and her teeth were chattering. Wesley gave her what little money he had. Later he looked around ...

15. The Church: The Dwelling Place of Wonder

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... will be that way - but in the meantime, the church must be that way in order that the world can see the way God wants it to be. Wesley had a high doctrine of the Church. His commitment to her was unquestioned. The fact that he remained a priest in the Church of England, that he ... essential. There is a story - whether true or not I’m not sure - of how Tallulah Bankhead went into St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church - I think that’s in New York. The church is so “high” liturgically that Roman Catholics ...

16. Time Out

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... that day, and as she often told me, "Things really change after my "Time Out With God." Jesus found in the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus such a place for reflection. In the biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Antonio Vallenten tells of a time when the ... continue. At eighty-five, when his friends urged him to ride his horse to a place six miles away where he was to preach, Wesley said indignantly, "I'd be ashamed if any Methodist preacher in tolerable health made a difficulty of six miles." And off he tramped on ...

17. Genuine Imitations

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... I was pretty vague about it all. I was having surgery in the morning, so I was fearful, anxious, and discouraged. When I started to cry, Mary (Mitchell’s member) said, ‘I’m just getting ready to read my Bible and have you in my prayers. Maybe you would like to join me ... made Francis become the patron saint of the poor, caused Luther to reform the church, and set the heart of John Wesley on fire and sent him blazing across England. In our own day, faith like that caused Mother Teresa to work tirelessly ...

18. Prepare The Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . From the very beginning everything about John was unique. His mother Elizabeth was related to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Elizabeth conceived six months before Mary. But Mary happened to be a very young girl, indeed almost a child. Most scholars put her ... a close friend of John Wesley.. His godly life was a legend. It was he whom Wesley had designated as the successor to lead the Methodist people in the event of his death. But it Fletcher who died first and John Wesley preached his funeral. He referred ...

19. Aiming at Perfection

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... reply with fingers crossed. Two other questions are very difficult to answer with a straight face. The questions inherited from our Methodist founder, John Wesley, are these: "Are you going on to perfection? Do you expect to be made perfect in love in this life?" When we clergy answer " ... offered concerned him at a huge memorial service. Perhaps the finest came from an ex-prostitute who sat beside Queen Mary. This former woman of the streets said of Booth, "He cared for the likes of us." That is the love of ...

20. Mother's Day

Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Brett Blair

... his shoulder, was for his mother. He looked at John the disciple and said: Behold thy mother. And then he looked at Mary and said: Behold thy son. That same type of influence can be seen in other individuals. Many scholars have concluded that you cannot really understand John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, unless you understand his mother Susanna Wesley. She was so instrumental in his life that she inevitably affected the movement and its direction. Americans know that Abraham Lincoln led ...

21. A Salute to Mothers

Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Brett Blair

22. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... dream, don’t you? You know, as Joseph slept, an angel appeared to him and said to him, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for ... It is the kind of security John Wesley must have had when a lady asked him, "Supposing that you knew you were to die at twelve o’clock tomorrow night - how would you spend the intervening time?" Wesley’s famous answer was: "How, madam? Why ...

23. Family Reunion

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... - and that one of them: James was the first bishop of the Church in Jerusalem. We believe that the notion of Mary’s “perpetual virginity” is a late addition to the faith, coming during the Byzantine period when the church began to develop ... brothers. This is my family. And the only folks who are outside it are those who choose to be. For I invite all.” As Charles Wesley put it in a famous hymn: “Come, sinners, to the Gospel feast; Let every soul be Jesus’ guest; Ye need not one be left behind, ...

24. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... the Word, but must now confess I have never, until current reading, properly known the true burden and message of John Wesley. Does God reach with entire sanctification a seeker now 72 years old?” And then he added another question: “Is this ... of political fame was members of that congregation. In this most active family, there was a little seven-year-old girl named Mary – Mary Taft. When she went off to the second grade, her teacher invited all the children to introduce themselves – and the teacher ...

25. Thou Sayest I Am King

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... beside the Bishop of Kenya, when he was introduced formally to the Queen of England. It was the occasion of the reopening of Wesley’s Chapel in London in 1980. It was a great occasion and people from all over the world, Methodists from all over the world ... first year of seminary fired within me an intense commitment to mission. Because I saw in these missionaries there, but especially in Mary Boseman, something that I had not up until that point seen in other Christians. Here was a young woman leaving her ...

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