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  • Exclusive: John Wesley Shipp On Being A Dawson’s Creek Dad


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    What’s better than a dad? A superhero dad. And, yes, my friends, they do exist. Look no further than John Wesley Shipp. Not only did he play a bonafide masked crusader in The Flash as, um, The Flash but he was also the most kick ass dad Capeside ever had on Dawson’s Creek. Shipp and I discussed Mitch’s most ...
    1 day ago
  • The Class Leader by John Atkinson


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    In my book collection is The Class Leader. His Work and How to Do It. by John Atkinson. You can read it online or download a PDF . Originally written in 1874, it explains the methodology and importance of Methodist small group leaders. The ministry model it describes sets a challenging benchmark for effective ...
    6 days ago
  • Violence Seems to Triumph – The First Methodist Martyr


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    (Methodism and the Mob Part 6) The Mob Reacts – The Death of William Seward How do you respond when you hear that a Christian missionary is in trouble for distributing Christian literature, or for some other attempt to communicate the Christian faith? Maybe your first response is to assume that the believer ...
    1 week ago
  • Wesleys argument that preaching is vain if Calvinism is true


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    John Wesleys classic statement of the objection goes like this: But if this be so, then is all preaching vain? It is needless to them that are elected; for they, whether with preaching or without, will infallibly be saved. Therefore, the end of preaching -- to save should -- is void with regard to them; and it ...
    1 week ago
  • "Justification by Faith" - a Sermon by John Wesley


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    “To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”  - Romans 4.5 1. How a sinner may be justified before God, the Lord and Judge of all, is a question of no common importance to every child of man. It contains the foundation of all our hope, ...
    1 week ago
  • Eucharist in the Wesleys hymns


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    The notion of sacrifice in Holy Communion was of profound significance to the Methodist brothers, says Christopher Howse.
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  • Preachers Pelted with Dirt, a Cat and a Dead Dog


    Lex Loizides' BlogAuthority Authority: 115
    William Seward William Seward was a wealthy supporter of the work that George Whitefield and Howell Harris were doing. He also helped John Wesley with generous funding for the meeting place in Bristol, even though Wesley was assuming a leadership role there that Seward felt excluded Whitefield (See here for how ...
    1 week ago
  • Ive discovered others / 1968 -- 19 years old


    Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace)Authority Authority: 128
    p. 26 "Person with Helpers" (California clay) Inspired by: Bob Dylan -- 1962 The Freewheelin Bob Dylan -- 1963 The Times They Are a-Changin -- 1964 Another Side of Bob Dylan -- 1964 Bringing It All Back Home -- 1965 Highway 61 Revisited -- 1965 Blonde on Blonde -- 1966 1967 On December 8, ...
    1 week ago
  • Sleepless Woman / 1968 -- 19 years old


    Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace)Authority Authority: 128
    "Sleepless Woman With Moon And Birds," chalk pastel on paper. (page 24) Oboe in the winter sun:
    1 week ago
  • Howell Harris Gets Beaten up While Preaching


    Lex Loizides' BlogAuthority Authority: 115
    (Methodism and the Mob, Part 3) Bala, in Wales. Not exactly a holiday destination for Howell Harris The Evangelist preaches, is resisted, rejected and then covered in sewerage and beaten ruthlessly. Hugh Hughes, in his biography of Harris describes one scene in Bala, Wales, in 1741. Howell Harris, the great ...
    2 weeks ago
  • a sense of peace / October 14, 1968 -- 19 years old


    Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace)Authority Authority: 128
    Am I my mind, I ask myself again and watch images that race beyond me into the crazy whirling mindless self that occupies the emptiness of me (page 23) 1967 Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas. As I understand from what Ive read, this is a secular holiday when celebrated in the Netherlands. Its a ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Rally for Girl Strikers Packs Hippodrome


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    Making up 85 percent of a crowd of 8,000 at the Hippodrome yesterday, girls in the shirtwaist makers strike were encouraged in speeches by womens suffrage advocates, as well as labor leaders and socialists.
    2 weeks ago
  • Remembering the stories where children could go into other worlds / 1967 -- 18 years old


    Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace)Authority Authority: 128
    where things were different than they always are here (page 21) 1967 The album covers are getting ahead of the poetry, so Im going to try something different -- posting the Bob Dylan album cover(s) that coincide with the time each poem was written. Otherwise, Im all over the place emotionally, and my ...
    2 weeks ago
  • 5 Protestant Icons


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    I was tagged by my blogging buddy Gary (whose blog has the coolest name in all of blogdom, The Sundry Times ) to name five Protestant icons. It’s hard to narrow to five, but I shall do my best. 1. John Wesley – I must agree with Gary, Wesley is as iconic as they come, and, since I attended a Methodist ...
    2 weeks ago
  • "Awake" / 1967 -- 17 years old


    Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace)Authority Authority: 128
    Toward the afternoon sky, the dream soared like a childs runaway kite ... (page 17) 1967 Fifteen years ago, on the morning of December 3, 1994, my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly of a massive heart attack in Gualala, California. I remember driving around in a daze punctuated by waves of tears, ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Changing Cultures – Methodism and the Mob (part 2)


    Lex Loizides' BlogAuthority Authority: 115
    Road Map of England from 1736 Early Irritations and Scares As the popularity of the movement grew, the Methodist preachers found that they were involved in a battle that, although spiritual, often found a physical expression. Not only did they face resistance from the clergy, but actual violence from gangs who ...
    2 weeks ago
  • "Scriptural Christianity" - a Sermon by John Wesley


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    “Whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.” - Ezekiel 33.4. “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” - Acts 4.31. 1. The same expression occurs in the second chapter, where we read, “When the day of ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Methodism and the Mob – what it really takes to change a culture


    Lex Loizides' BlogAuthority Authority: 115
    John Wesley in Wednesbury A Robust Faith Although the Methodists enjoyed great successes they also endured terrible persecution which lasted several years. But God gave them power to press through into victories.  Historian John Simon writes: ‘If Methodism had not come into contact with the mob it would ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Supernaturally Healed Whilst Preaching


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    You may not agree with all of John Wesley’s theology. Indeed, some of his statements are baffling. But one thing you can’t deny is that he was a seriously hard worker. His commitment to preaching and teaching and leading was phenomenal. And sometimes he got sick. Weakness and Fever Here’s an incident from ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Howe to Abilene - The Texas Forts Trail


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    We had a long way to go, and a short time to get there....hmm, havent I heard that in a song? Either way, we didnt start our travel until after lunch, saying goodbye to family in Howe, Texas , we hit highway 82 out of Sherman to I-35, south to Denton, then highway 380 west to Jacksboro, home of Fort Richardson . ...
    3 weeks ago

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