Home »
Lesson Archive and Search Results
Biblical Studies
Councils, Creeds, Canon: Sifting and Parting the Waters
In the first millennium after Christ’s ascension, the Jesus movement flowed west, east, and south from Jerusalem to the edges of the known world. But keeping the Church both Christian and undivided across so many miles, cultures, and generations proved daunting.
Enlightenment, Methodism, and the Wellspring of the Modern World: Floodgates & Waterworks
The Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Discovery were a potent, generative combination from which both the Enlightenment and Methodism were born.
From Genesis to the Exile: Headwaters of Church History
If we want to understand and articulate our present-day current in the river of Christian faith, we must get properly oriented toward our earliest origins: creation and covenant.
Hermeneutics: The Wesleyan Quadrilateral
When we talk about theology, we tend to avoid talking about HOW we come to our theology. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral is an honest description of how every Christian uses scripture, tradition, experience, and reason to understand God.
Salvation: The Christian Journey
Methodists reject magical notions of metaphysical action > reaction when we talk about salvation, and instead focus on a relationship with Christ that culminates in a journey worth living. Is that how you describe your own journey with God?
The Early Church: Living Water from Judea to the World
Into the story of creation and covenant came a prophet, teacher, and healer who invited and empowered people to experience God’s life in and through him.
The Formation and Reformation of the European Church: Westward Flow
After the East–West Schism (1054), the Latin stream of Christianity became recognizably European in culture and practice, giving birth to the Western intellectual and devotional traditions that led (eventually) to the Protestant Reformation.
Showing all 7 results