Firebrand Podcast

John Wesley agreed with his friend George Whitefield on many things, but one topic on which they sharply disagreed was individual predestination. Wesley was an Arminian. Whitefield was a Calvinist. Wesley's sermon "Free Grace" shows how strong were his feelings about the matter. This rejection of individual predestination and the affirmation of free will with regard to salvation would become one of the defining features of Wesleyan theology. 

Frank and Peggi Billman share a story of heartache and redemption as they relate their son's struggle with drug addiction and the overcoming of addiction with God's help. Today, their son Luke is about to become a United Methodist local pastor, but it's been a long road getting there. 

John Wesley understood Scripture as an indispensable resource for Christian formation. In the preface to his Explanatory Notes Upon the Old Testament, he offered several practical suggestions on how to read Scripture so as to grow in faith. David looks at Wesley's instructions for reading Scripture in another episode of PT Shorts. 

For John Wesley, Scripture was a means by which we could receive the preventing, justifying, and sanctifying grace of God. David explores this idea in another edition of PT Shorts. 

The fourth of our brief recaps of the 2019 General Conference of The United Methodist Church. 

The third of our brief recaps of the 2019 General Conference of The United Methodist Church. 

In this third installment of PT Shorts, David talks about the significance that John Wesley placed on reading the entire Bible, and of interpreting one part in light of another. 

The second of our brief recaps of the 2019 General Conference of The United Methodist Church. 

We provide a brief recap of the ins and outs of the 2019 General Conference of The United Methodist Church. 

John Wesley read Scripture according to the "analogy of faith." David explores this notion briefly in this second episode of PT Shorts.