These were the words of John Wesley, from a letter written in 1739. It was a time when what it meant to be the church was to serve the members of one’s own congregation – typically persons who lived ...

Witnessing to the holy love of God was always in John Wesley's mind. Even in death. Here was a man who had preached more than 45,000 sermons, traveled (mostly on horseback) a distance equivalent to ...

Preaching is generally associated with pulpits. A formal stand for your notes, and a platform from which you generally have a bit of a view, not to mention an advantage, over your audience. My family ...

John Wesley, the founder of what is today’s United Methodist Church, traveled about England and did a lot of preaching outdoors. He came to America in the 1730s to preach the Gospel of Jesus and he ...

In 1771, John Wesley received a remarkable letter from devout Methodist convert Mary Bosanquet (1739-1815). With her friends Sarah Crosby (1729-1804) and Sarah Ryan (1724-1768), Bosanquet had been ...

THERE have been many lives of Wesley and histories of the rise of Methodism written already, but there is still another before us by Julia Wedgwood, an Englishwoman, who states in her Preface that her ...