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...

As long as sin exists in the world, love cannot remain passive. Love must fight. Christ himself came out of the Father’s love not merely to...

  "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness...

John Wesley Advocates of entire sanctification  — figures like Wesley, Fletcher, and Watson — have always insisted that this blessing is jus...

When the Bible talks about “perfection” in relation to human beings, it doesn’t mean just one thing. In fact, much of the confusion around t...

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

QUESTION: When was Saul entirely sanctified? ANSWER: The fact is more important than the date. This fact is implied in all his exhortation...

QUESTION: When did Paul receive the witness of the Spirit of adoption? ANSWER: The first mention of the Holy Spirit in relation to him is in...

"Knowing exactly what I say, and taking the full responsibility of it, I repeat, we are the only Church in history, from the apostles...

In regard to the process of becoming established in holiness, I find this to be God's open secret — "to walk by the same rule and t...

"But may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, soul and body, be preserved entire without blame, in the co...

QUESTION: Why are not the children of entirely sanctified parents born without any bent toward sin? ANSWER: This bent is derived from fall...

 "And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young p...

QUESTION: A lady, relating her experience in a recent issue of "Living Water," says, "Cleansing and the incoming of the Holy ...

QUESTION: Do you think any person can be entirely sanctified and still assert that the apostles were not regenerated till Pentecost? ANSWE...

I was born into this world in Windham, N. Y., October 5, 1824; into the kingdom of God in Wilbraham Mass., in the spring of 1842. I could ne...

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

Guest blog by Bishop Jesse T. Peck (1811-1883): The results of holiness are desirable. These are matters of experience. They can never b...