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Joshua Claybourn is an attorney, author, and historian. His research, writing, and editing primarily concern history, law, public policy, and Lincoln's youth in Indiana. He was featured on the CNN documentary series LINCOLN: DIVIDED WE STAND. He has also published several books including ABE'S YOUTH: SHAPING THE FUTURE PRESIDENT with William E. "Bill" Bartelt and was an editor on ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S WILDERNESS YEARS: COLLECTED WORKS OF J. EDWARD MURR.

Joshua spoke at Methodist Temple's Men's Breakfast on Saturday, September 30, 2023. In his presentation, Joshua touches on Lincoln's life growing up in Indiana and the values and virtues that made Lincoln the man he was and how we can apply those values in our lives today.

To learn more about Joshua and his published works visit his website:

www.joshclaybourn.com

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Randy and Andy discuss the difference between “Holier than thou” and Holiness, religion of the heart, and the fact that in the economy of God’s reign, everyone has enough.

Article X — Of Good Works

Although good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and spring out of a true and lively faith, insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree is discerned by its fruit.

The Pastor Podcast with Randy and Andy

Episode 12: Religion of the Heart

Pastor Andy Payton and Pastor Randy Moore

September 27, 2023

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Pastor Randy is joined by Rev. Jerry Rairdon. Jerry is a retired UMC pastor who worships at Methodist Temple. He’s also the development director at Wesselman Woods. Randy and Jerry talk about holiness, creation care, and the parable of Jesus that will be the topic of this week’s sermon (Matthew 20:1-16).

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Episode 11: Holiness and Creation Care

Pastor Andy Payton and Pastor Randy Moore

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This week Randy and Andy come to Article 9, Justification by Faith. We are justified when we wake up to God's loving presence in our lives. We are freed from our compulsion to try to gain God's presence by achievement.

Article IX — Of the Justification of Man

We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith, only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.

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Episode 10: Justification by Faith

Pastor Andy Payton and Pastor Randy Moore

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This week, Pastors Randy and Andy pick back up with the discussion of the 25 Articles of Religion. To understand free will, it is necessary to understand prevenient grace.

Article VIII — Of Free Will

The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.

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On this week's podcast, we take a pause from our discussion on the 25 Articles of Religion and Pastors Randy and Andy talk about the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch from the 8th chapter of Acts. 

Next week we will pick back up on Article 8 of the 25 Articles of Religion.

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In this podcast, Pastors Randy and Andy continue discussing the 25 Articles of Religion used by the Methodist Church and unpack Original Sin and Original Righteousness too.

Article VII — Of Original or Birth Sin

Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to evil, and that continually.

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Episode 7: Original Sin and Original Righteousness

Pastor Andy Payton and Pastor Randy Moore

August 23, 2023

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In this week's podcast, Pastors Randy and Andy discuss various ways Christians see Jesus as the mediator between God and humankind. They will continue their discussion around the 25 articles of religion in the Methodist Church.

Article VI — Of the Old Testament

The Old Testament is not contrary to the New; for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man, being both God and Man. Wherefore they are not to be heard who feign that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the law given from God by Moses as touching ceremonies and rites doth not bind Christians, nor ought the civil precepts thereof of necessity be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral.

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Episode 6: Jesus as the Mediator

Pastor Andy Payton and Pastor Randy Moore

August 16, 2023

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In this week's Pastor Podcast with Randy and Andy, we discuss Jesus as the lens through which to read the Bible. They will continue their discussion around the 25 articles of religion in the Methodist Church.

Article V — Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation

The Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation; so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testament of whose authority was never any doubt in the church. The names of the canonical books are:

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, The First Book of Samuel, The Second Book of Samuel, The First Book of Kings, The Second Book of Kings, The First Book of Chronicles, The Second Book of Chronicles, The Book of Ezra, The Book of Nehemiah, The Book of Esther, The Book of Job, The Psalms, The Proverbs, Ecclesiastes or the Preacher, Cantica or Songs of Solomon, Four Prophets the Greater, Twelve Prophets the Less.

All the books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive and account canonical.

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Episode 5: Jesus as the Lens

Pastor Andy Payton and Pastor Randy Moore

August 9, 2023

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Meditating on the Jacob story, Pastors Randy Moore and Andy Payton discuss wrestling with God and the scriptures. They will continue their discussion around the 25 articles of religion in the Methodist Church.

Article IV — Of the Holy Ghost

The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God.

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Episode 4: Holy Spirit

Pastor Andy Payton and Pastor Randy Moore

August 2, 2023

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