It took four thousand years for the sacred Scriptures to fully unfold — "to import God into knowledge," in the phrase of Dr. Bushn...

Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her fine essay on “Primitive Christian Experience,” uses the following language: “The advant...

There’s no serious disagreement among Christians that full sanctification is necessary to enter Heaven. Where people often hesitate is on wh...

What theologians often call original sin — sometimes described as inbred sin — is the inner condition of the heart from which sinful actions...

 CONCLUDING NOTES. 1. In verse 3 an important variant reading is found in the Vulgate and in many Latin fathers. Instead of "confesseth...

d. iv. 1-v. 12. The Sources of Sonship: Possession of the Spirit as shown by Confession of the Incarnation.     The Spirit of Truth and the ...

Guest Blog by : Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu (1828-1911) Doubtless Methodism is the greatest religious movement of the last two hundred y...

QUESTION: What is the difference between Adam's holiness before he fell and after he was entirely sanctified? ANSWER: The difference b...

"If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at...

Guest blog by Bishop W. L. Mallallieu (1828-1911): The history of Methodism, and the history of the Christian Church in all ages, shows...

It was the Psalmist who, according to the Septuagint version, testifies: "I ran the way of thy commandments when thou dids't enlarg...

QUESTION: Can you give me light upon the following: I have read of and heard persons state that they received the blessing after making the ...

QUESTION: A holiness evangelist who has been very useful in the past tries to prove that the Apostles were cleansed before Pentecost, and ri...

QUESTION: How shall we treat those good people who profess to have the gift of tongues? ANSWER: With Christian kindness, telling them that t...

Another element of power inwrought by the Holy Spirit is love. We have all heard the phrase made classic in Christian literature by Dr. Chal...

QUESTION: When I quoted to my pastor I John 2:5 and 4:18 he said "There is no such a thing as perfect love." What shall I say to h...

QUESTION: Does the baptism with the Holy Spirit entirely sanctify? ANSWER: It does, if the believer is fu1filling the conditions by consecra...

QUESTION: Must the wholly sanctified be as patient in their finite capacity as God himself in his infinity? Ans. Yes. The command is, ...

"...so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:19 NRSV) It becomes us not to dogmatize with confiden...

"I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth...." ...