Ours Great Redeemer’s Praise is the first major Wesleyan hymnal to be release in thirty years. The hymnal is an 800-page compilation of hymns that includes service music for various occasions, a rich collection of creeds, prayers, and benedictions, and treasury of hymns by Charles and John Wesley.
The 675 hymns are organized around the Apostles Creed. You will find both classic and contemporary hymns throughout the collection!
Every year we gather together to be restored, refreshed, and reignited by the Holy Spirit. We invite you and your family or team to join us!
A Discipleship Band is a group of 3 to 5 people who read together, pray together, and meet together to become the love of God for one another and the world.
A series of short talks on theological topics from a wide variety of Christian professors, pastors, speakers, and theologians.
While “Jesus saves” remains the central claim of Christianity, the ensuing question—How?—demands attention. How exactly does a brutal and shameful crucifixion bring salvation? Why does the Bible call it good news, and why should we?
In How Jesus Saves: Atonement for Ordinary People, Joshua McNall unpacks the meaning of Jesus’s life and death for everyday people. Through Scripture, story, and real-life applications, he brings together the primary models of atonement doctrine and offers an integrated vision for how Jesus offers the benefits of salvation to the world.
As a 26 year old associate pastor, I have never known ministry to not be in the “digital age.” I remember discovering my faith for myself during my freshman year of undergrad and landing on
Greetings Seedbed readers, We wanted to take a moment and invite you into our social media conversation. As many of you know, we are committed to sowing for a Great Awakening, and one of the
There’s a new generation of Christians rising up to take their place as cultural restorers rather than being separatists or merely blending in with culture. Read more in this book review of The Next Christians by staff writer David Lyell.
This week Dr. Lawson Stone offers his hearty summer reading list for the readers of Seedbed. He promised that his list might be a bit more eclectic, so check it out!
In this resource post, we are presenting some of the best resources for understanding and enriching the conversation about women in ministry.
Podcasting is a fantastic resource for getting your church’s message out. Today it’s possible to watch and listen to churches from all over the country and the world. Here you will find 5 podcasts from vibrant churches that are making a difference and have their roots in Wesleyan theology.
The web is filled with great resources for ministry. Seedbed is here to help you find the very best.
It seems like there’s always another local church in the news for pulling some outlandish stunt or another. And sometimes its hard to tell what their intention was, and other times its pretty clear that they were looking to get in the news.
One way we can begin interpreting these surprising actions by a local church is to examine their beliefs and determine whether they would be considered “orthodox”. Orthodoxy can be defined as the “right belief” about God and is typically characterized by the ancient creeds of the church. To compliment their orthodox belief, we can then consider the “orthopraxis”, or the “right practice”, of the church.
Typically the orthopraxis of the local church is expressed in much broader terms than orthodoxy, and of the two is what flexes as local churches contextualize their practices to reach new members.
We have found 7 examples of surprising things that churches have done to attract […]
