The Privileges and Potential of Holiness

The Privileges and Potential of Holiness

What do the Sacraments have to do with my Salvation? By Philip Brown Holiness. When you hear the word holiness, what comes to mind? Responses from college students in the course Doctrine of Holiness include: “a kind of church that sings traditional hymns,” “a specific...
What do the Sacraments have to do with my Salvation?

What do the Sacraments have to do with my Salvation?

What do the Sacraments have to do with my Salvation? By Richard G. Hutchison Every week Christian congregations around the world enter into special moments of re-enactment together. Sometimes they are standing on the banks of a river or along some distant seashore...
Biblical Salvation in Cultural Context

Biblical Salvation in Cultural Context

What does it mean to be saved? By Dr. Steve Oliver Jesus is salvation. At its heart, salvation is not an act, a transaction, or a doctrine – it is the Person of Jesus, both who He is and what He’s done. According to 1 Corinthians 1:30, Jesus Christ “became...
Doctrine of Salvation

Doctrine of Salvation

How Do We Awaken Today’s Culture to the Need of Salvation? This is the first of four articles on the doctrine of salvation written by three scholars within the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches. For this article we posed several questions in regard to connecting...
Increase My Faith

Increase My Faith

I walked out of the ICU, then out of the hospital. She couldn’t die, surely. She was young. She had a husband and two kids. Some of her family was attending my church. “Please, Lord, show this Catholic family that you are a God that heals.” I think (possibly) that...