by Dawson Jarrell | Aug 9, 2022 | Church History, Spiritual Gifts
John Wesley, the Continuationist? During the month of August 1739 in Bristol England, John Wesley had three separate interviews with Bishop Joseph Butler. Butler a towering intellect and presiding bishop. Wesley an upstart preacher of a burgeoning movement. The first...
by Dawson Jarrell | Aug 8, 2022 | Church History, Doctrines
Wesley on Authentic Experience of the Spirit. Throughout his life, John Wesley held to an orthodox view of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead. It was his trinitarian understanding of the God that informed his view of the Spirit’s role in the...
by Dawson Jarrell | Jul 23, 2022 | Christian Living, Church History
Soften Your Heart to use your Head A minister, about to write an article criticizing a fellow minister for his lack of orthodoxy, wrote to John Newton of his intention. Newton replied in a letter that has now become famous, called Letter 19 – on controversy. The...
by Dawson Jarrell | Jul 13, 2022 | Christian Ethics, Church History
Abortion Arguments Old and New I recently over-heard a coffee house patron clam that ancient people could not practice ‘abortion’ like we do today. Ancient people did not even understand the female biology. Likely this ignorance was a case of chronological snobbery....
by Dawson Jarrell | May 21, 2022 | Church History, Spiritual Gifts
Lack of Openness to Divine Healing (part three) This is the third blog in a three part series on the modern attitude towards healing. Many people today may say that God “can” heal but those same people often have a negative attitude towards miraculous healing. Such a...
by Dawson Jarrell | Apr 27, 2022 | Church History, Spiritual Gifts
Lack of Openness to Divine Healing (part two) In a previous blog we looked at Kelsey’s four historical arguments about divine healing to answer the question; “why people lack an openness to Divine Healing?” He observed that many Christians today react...
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