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Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... . While preaching in East London he saw the tragic impact of alcoholism on young and old alike. Like Wesley, in an earlier time, Booth saw young children, some as young as five years of age, lying drunk on the streets ... and he met the Master in them. He became acquainted with the realities of prostitution, particularly the tragedy of young girls kidnapped into the trade by unscrupulous "white slavers," or sold into the "profession" by desperate parents ... and he met the Master in them. He saw children ...

2. Life in the Living Stone Age

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... name? There's a new name written down in glory, And it's mine, O yes, it's mine! And the white robed angels sing the story, "A sinner has come home." For there's a new name written down in glory, And it ... them before, on another grave stone, in a little cemetery in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. When I saw them there, I had no idea that they had come from Wesley, but I knew that they had been chosen by the man who was buried there. I don’t know where he got them; my guess is that he heard them from ...

3. Look What Happened On The Cross!

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... love that can make you overcome divisions. When you are on fire with this kind of love, all the divisions get burned away. John Wesley’s brother Charles made a penetrating observation: “Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn,” he said ... us into subversive rebels towards the ways of the world. [1] Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (New York: Cox and Murray, 2012). [2] John Calvin, “Commentaries On the Epistle of St. Paul To the ...

4. Easter Makes Us One!

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... unity, is not over today. The unity created by Easter is a year-round thing for us. To celebrate Easter all year is to celebrate it and work with others in unity. [1] For specifics, see Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. [2] John Wesley, Commentary On the Bible, ed. G. Roger Schoenhals, p.480. [3] Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” (1967), in A Testament of Hope, ed. James M. Washington, P.255. [4] Ibid. [5] See Nicholas Wade, The Faith Instinct (New ...

5. The Lord's Pryaer: Our Daily Bread

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... culture or country I have been fortunate to visit and experience. We have Italian bread, New York rye, Matzah crackers, white bread, whole wheat, English muffins and my waistline continues to expand. Even in years past, prisoners in jails were entitled ... At nine-ten, I would sit down to my evening meal. I would go to bed at ten o''clock and wake up in glory!" John Wesley trusted God each day for the "crust." Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, in his marvelous book STAY ALIVE ALL YOUR LIFE, shares a story about a ...

6. Said the Night Wind….

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... the silence. The light and the darkness. Family and strangers. Time and timelessness. Christmas touches us. It affects us. John Wesley, the Anglican priest whose reform movement led to the birth of the Methodist Church, believed that being created in ... too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself, what a wonderful world I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself, what a wonderful world The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the ...

7. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

... strangely warmed.” This has become one of the catch phrases that has defined Methodism. It is used today exactly in the same way that John Wesley intended it when he wrote it in his journal. “I felt my heart strangely warmed.” I am assured of my salvation. I no longer harbor ... outer space. In the foreboding darkness of space looking down upon a light blue colored planet surrounded by a white halo of clouds, and beyond that the brilliance of other planets, stars and moons, the astronauts must have truly ...

8. Calming Of The Tempest

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the late afternoon faded into dusk, trouble began to loom. The white puffy clouds that dotted the sky were replaced by low hanging, bilious black clouds. The stilled waters began to churn with white caps and then large waves that slammed the side of the ... . It doesn’t take long for the storms to come. Amazingly, as this violent storm was taking place, Jesus was asleep. When John Wesley was coming to America, he found himself in the middle of a storm. This was in the days before his Aldersgate experience. He ...

9. How Can I Know It's Real?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... justice when he shot his first victim. (2) Regardless, it is clear that though the fathers of Frank and Jesse James and of John Wesley Hardin were men of the cloth, they were not great role models. Have you ever wondered how to tell if someone has truly committed ... the grating. The years passed, and the dream did not die, and the day came when the ragged newsboy, now attired in white tie and tails, held the crowds that came to the theater spellbound with the most astounding array of magical tricks the stage ...

10. Is It Time To Tear Down Our Church?

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Temple were huge pillars, almost forty feet high. The Temple was made of pure white marble and parts of it were covered in plates of solid gold. When the sun hit the white and gold structure, it often gleamed so brilliantly that onlookers had to shield ... around the world: "Jesus, lover of my soul, / Let me to thy bosom fly; While the nearer waters roll, /While the tempest still is high!" Wesley was thankful to God for the shelter he had found in the spring-house. And he wrote of a place of shelter open to all ...

11. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... love flooded my soul. David sensed the change in me. He moved toward me and fell on my chest, burying his grimy head against my white shirt and tie. Holding him close, I talked to him about Jesus’ love. These weren’t just words; I felt them. I felt love for ... is Tammy Hutchins. She came to Asbury four years ago, a recent convert to the Christian faith through Tom Tanner’s Wesley Foundation ministry at the University of Georgia. Tammy came here on faith, not quite sure where the Lord was leading her, ...

12. Those Romans 7 Moments

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... slavery while giving voting rights only to free, white, land-owning males. The Civil War was fought to end slavery, but established the Jim Crow era of legalized segregation and white supremacy. World War I proclaimed itself to be “ ... our soul. We all know Romans 7 moments all too well. That is why John Wesley’s first word to any person was not, “You are a sinner.” That is known territory and the wrong place to start. For Wesley the first truth to get across to people was, “You are a child of God ...

13. He Leadeth Me

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the furniture except for the mattresses into the truck. It was dark, and there were stars out, millions of stars outside the tiny white house out in flat, flat country - no trees around. He and his father stood there after they had loaded the truck, and his ... , til even American slavery, the vilest that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it. (The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., edited by John Telford (London: The Epworth Press, 1931). Did you catch the Latin w in the first sentence? “Unless ...

14. The Real Thing

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... sun went down. Dozens of people worked all night. Saturday morning a crowd of several hundred showed up for work, black and white, young and old. They sodded the lawn Saturday night and turned on the sprinkler system Sunday morning. By Sunday afternoon the park ... themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted" (v. 12). As a student at Oxford University, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, along with his brother Charles and other friends shared in what they called The Holy Club. ...

15. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... corner of the garden for prayer. Later, as the service was being conducted in a private house, Hosier sat quietly as the white minister, John Walker, preached. At the conclusion of that sermon, Hosier took his place behind the chair where he had been sitting. Very ... . We need saints in today’s world - saints who will go into the world with the good news of Jesus Christ. John Wesley had some pointed remarks about the way in which saints go about their witnessing. Said he, "Let but a pert, self-sufficient ...

16. I Am the Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what then would you thank God for? And the porter responded, I would thank God that I had dry stones upon which to lie. Well Wesley was really upset by this time. He said, you thank God for having little food, you thank God not having adequate clothing, you thank ... told her that hers was the finest voice of the century; there was the time when she’d given the private concert at the White House for the Roosevelts, and the King and Queen of England; there was the time when she received the $10,000 Bach award ...

17. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ministry, and what we think about the grace of Christ will determine the kind of church we are. II Again, it was Wesley who provided a distinctive emphasis on the Gospel which has characterized Methodists around the world through the years—and that brings me ... thing happened, perhaps the only thing that could have made a difference and broken the ice. President Jimmy Carter, who was in the White House at that time, came into the room and was about to be seated. But before he was seated, he saw President ...

18. Visioning Or Vanishing?

Proverbs 29:1-27

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... bug." We must not ask for tasks equal to our power but for power EQUAL TO THE TASKS THAT CHRIST ASSIGNS US. John Wesley's fear was not that the people called Methodists would cease to exist, but that they would have the "form of religion - ... us to claim the "Vision" God wants us to claim. One of the wonderful Lincoln stories concerns an incident that took place in his White House years during the Civil War. He didn't go to church regularly on Sunday because his presence was rather disruptive, but he often ...

19. What Do You Believe About Eternal Life

John 14:5-14

Eulogy

James W. Moore

... to God.” Then John Wesley’s famous last words were words of great faith: “The best of all is God is with us.” The Apostle Paul as he faced death spoke to his Philippian friends with a heart overflowing with joy and he said, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice… for me to live in Christ and to die is gain.” And remember also the powerful words of Henry Van Dyke in his Parable of Immortality. “I am standing on the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the ...

20. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was marvelous being in that place, and seeking to relive in memory the early groundings of our father in the faith, John Wesley, and to read some of the original correspondence between him and the founder of that community, Count Zenzendor. But the real ... management and labor - we see it in our city between the haves and have nots, the rich and the poor, the black and the white. And we Christians are to be the reconcilers, the ones who hug the world - the estranged, the shattered, the separated - hug it to ...

21. When We Don't Know God

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... between being religious and knowing God? We ask this only because of the experience of devout believers like St. Paul and John Wesley and many, many other devoted saints down through the ages who came to a point in their lives when they realized that ... a story about Dr. Arthur Burns, the former chair of the Federal Reserve Board. Although he was Jewish, Dr. Burns agreed to join a White House Bible Study. Since he was Jewish, the other members of the study were afraid to ask him to pray at the end of their ...

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

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” In 1957 when Rosa Parks refused to yield her bus seat to a white male, she ignited a revolution. God was on her side. God opposes every ruling system that devalues people or deprives them of life, ... day 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 looked ...

23. Mary's Revolutionary Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." In 1957 when Rosa Parks refused to yield her bus seat to a white male, she ignited a revolution. God was on her side. God opposes every ruling system that devalues people or deprives them of life, liberty ... 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 ...

24. 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 ... he called me at midnight that the police chief was in his home harassing him and demanding that he give the name of every white person that was in attendance at the meeting. Hatred poisons us. It distorts perspective; it causes us to do things that we not under ...

25. When God Leads

Joshua 3:7-17

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... lines” by Lauren Chadwick, Euronews.com, July 26, 2023. https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/26/inventive-or-stupid-french-village-disorients-drivers-with-crisscrossed-white-lines. 3. New York Daily News, Religion Section, 10-13-85, p. B-14, Charles Bell. 4. Wesley Study Bible (Nashville, TN: Common English Bible, 2012), p. 283. 5. “The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship” Interview with Greg Boyle and Krista Tippett, On Being with Krista Tippett, Original Air Date: February 26, 2013 ...

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