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Category: Church History

How Francis Asbury Modeled Church Planting

In the final video of our interview with Ed Stetzer, he discusses why Francis Asbury served as a role model for church planting. Stetzer suggests that part of it had to with the unique combination of missional impulse with deep spirituality. This was energized in part by a commitment to the class meeting.

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John Wesley the Content Curator

In part 3 of our video with Howard Snyder, he answers questions relating to John Wesley’s practice of curating content for Christians to read, and helpfully suggests several of his sermons worth revisiting today.

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5 Reasons We Need Camp Meetings Now More Than Ever

Are camp meetings an irrelevant, American practice from centuries past? Jonathan Andersen offers 5 reasons why they are needed now more than ever. They include rest, community cultivation, reorientation toward God, the passing on of tradition, and profound Christian formation.

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Wesley, Wrath, & the Revival that Changed a Nation

For many today, notions of “the wrath of God” may seem outdated, questionable, or even backward. Regardless, the theme of God’s wrath permeates all of Scripture and was a central theme in the DNA of the Wesleyan revival. Paul Lawler offers 4 reasons why we should retain this important doctrine.

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Book Review: Building the Old Time Religion by Priscilla Pope

Brian LePort offers a book review of “Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era,” a work for anyone interested in gender studies as well as the development of Christianity in the United States. This is truly a “history from below” telling the story of those that would be forgotten if society’s sexist inclinations were to be embraced.

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Seedbed - Seven Minute Seminary

Have Some Spiritual Gifts Ceased?

In this Seven Minute Seminary, theologian Frank D. Macchia charitably discusses both positions on what can be a divisive topic—the so-called “charismatic gifts” debate. He seeks to understand and accurately articulate the position that the charismatic gifts have ceased, but ends up arguing for their continuation in the church.

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Introduction to the Book of Romans

Dr. Ben Witherington III offers us an introduction to the book of Romans, highlighting key points of background history that are important to keep in mind as we read the letter. In doing so, he reminds us that the work is an occasional letter, not a systematic treatment of or introduction to Christian doctrine.

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