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Attitudes towards the centrality of the eucharist have changed over time, and vary in churches today, reports Madeleine ...
John Wesley was known, and got into trouble as a result, for not respecting those boundaries. On a number of occasions he was charged with “preaching out of doors,” which in some communities ...
John Wesley died in London in 1791 at the age of 87. His searching heart had been “strangely warmed” and became a blazing fire that has impacted the world to this day. Rob Weatherby is a retired ...
Wesley’s connection to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight was deep and enduring. His first recorded visit to Southampton, a bustling port city, was in July 1753.
This article is just a brief historical, theological and spiritual look at two past spiritual giants: John Wesley and George Whitefield. The background to it, and rationale for it, ... He was the one ...
The first of Wesley’s visits to upper Teesdale (probably Newbiggin) was in June 1761 after preaching in Weardale in the morning. He records: “Tues. 9th – At noon I preached in Teesdale. Most of the ...
IT will be news to many that “the Cult of Satan, stilkembhnsiastically recruiting in every land, has enoraao increased even within the last five and twenty Aears“. All the more reason for a ...
left to right, James Arthur Hawkins, John Wesley Elliott, Negail Rudolph Riley, Allen Cecil Williams, and James Vernon Lyles. At SMU, Williams received the Perkins School of Theology Distinguished ...
Methodism founder John Wesley preaching at a church yard in Epworth, England in 1742. | Public Domain. Throughout the extensive history of the Church, there have been numerous events of lasting ...