Results for: "Denominations & Sects of the Church"

Christian Calendar, Christian History, Christian Living, Denominations & Sects of the Church, Experience, Practice & Life, June Articles, Methodist churches, Prayer

Listen One of the most remarkable ministers in English history, and in all the history of the Christian Church, was an Anglican priest by the name of John William Fletcher (1729-1785), “First Theologian of Methodism.” Fletcher was a close companion with John and Charles Wesley, and had been hand picked by Wesley to succeed himself as leader of British Methodism, but...Read more... Read more...

Christian Calendar, Christian History, Christian Living, Denominations & Sects of the Church, Methodist churches, October Articles

Listen The study of the history of Methodism will result in the awareness that many denominations are related historically and theologically as spiritual descendants of John Wesley. Some denominations, though not related to Methodism from the point of their origins, are related theologically that is they are Arminian or Wesleyan-Arminian. Though some smaller groups or denominations may...Read more... Read more...

Christian Calendar, Christian History, Continental Protestant Denominations & Related Bodies, Denominations & Sects of the Church, October Articles

Listen Easter 1525 First time the Lord’s Supper was celebrated in the Reformed manner The cry for reform in the Western Church of Christianity preceded Martin Luther by centuries. Abuses and non-Christian practices crept into the Church and continued until the rise of the Protestant Reformation. Following the example of Luther in Germany, Huldreich Zwingli and John Calvin led the...Read more... Read more...

Christian Biography, Christian History, Christian Living, Denominations & Sects of the Church, Methodist churches

Listen March 31, 1816 Death of Francis Asbury Francis Asbury (August 20, 1745 – March 31, 1816) is remembered most for the leadership he provided to early American Methodism. Asbury must not be associated with the theologians of Methodism. Like Jabez Bunting among the British Wesleyan Methodists, Asbury was a great churchman within the American Methodist Episcopal Church. He was...Read more... Read more...

Anglican Churches, Christian History, Christian Living, Denominations & Sects of the Church, History of Hymns, Music

Listen Each time the Doxology is sung, Christians should deeply sense the reverence and gratitude its words evoke for a holy God, but they should also hear its accompanying invitation to fidelity to the Word and will of God. In contemporary America, the clergy are less ready to stand against social, moral, and political decadence than were previous generations of Christian leaders....Read more... Read more...