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

The Lutheran reformation was theological and ecclesiastical, the Wesleyan was experimental and spiritual. The Spirit, for centuries relegate...

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

QUESTION: Was Saul of Tarsus already forgiven when Ananais said, "Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins."? ANSWER: Adul...

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...

Guest blog by Daniel D. Whedon (1808-1885): Where God performs directly the work of justification and of regeneration, is it not to be e...

The doctrine of the immediate contact of God's Spirit with my spirit, without the medium of symbol or sacrament or absolving priest, doe...

This is the doctrine of assurance which Wesley did more to elucidate and to relieve of obscuring misapprehensions than any preceding theolog...

QUESTION: Are justification and regeneration always concomitants? ANSWER: It would not be safe for God to do a work for us without at the sa...

The following letter, together with the printed article to which it refers, has been sent to the Question Box, with the suggestion that it b...

Christian experience, especially in its higher phases, abundantly testifies to the certitude of the inward revelations of the Comforter. The...

QUESTION: Is it wise to advise seekers to profess the blessing of entire sanctification when they have not the Spirit's witness of the s...

QUESTION: That a seeker for pardon may find this blessing must he believe that God for Christ's sake does forgive? ANSWER: Some preach...

QUESTION: Is there a definite witness to this grace [of entire sanctification]? ANSWER: Yes, in general terms, I Cor. 2:21, "that we mi...

The author ... after passing his eightieth birthday was so violently prostrated by pneumonia that he and all his neighbors thought the time ...

QUESTION: Is it right to exhort seekers at the altar to believe that God does now forgive their sins instead of trusting in Christ to forgiv...

QUESTION: In Rom. 8:16 is it not more correct to say the Spirit bears witness to our spirit instead of with our spirit? ANSWER: The Greek ...

QUESTION: Do you receive Wesley's view of saving faith? From John Wesley's Sermon " The Scripture Way of Salvation ": ...

QUESTION: State in a few words the difference between the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament and the New in the production of piet...