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This particular Arminian has a rather large view of God...

The James Webb Space Telescope, also called Webb or JWST, is a large, space-based observatory, optimized for infrared wavelengths, which will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. It launches in 2018. It will be interesting to see what this telescope sees when it...

Will we have to rethink the age of the universe? "Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought" Hubble Finds 10 Times More Galaxies Than Thought Even the big bang theory is up for debate! Where is the centre of the universe? If the universe...

For the salvation to be picked up in these methods two things must accompany the revival... 1. The Spirit - Must be sensed in the service 2. The Word - Must be preached by an anointed Man of God Much like the ministry teams.... 1. DL Moody and Ira Sankey 2. Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver...

I believe that salvation the Arminian way is also outlined in the Pilgrims Progress 1. The start of the journey - The invitation to revival by an anointed evangelist (noting that the anointing is not ego) 2.The Wicket Gate - Salvation through a profession in Christ Jesus 3. The Interpreters...

Bob Jones University's Unusual Films also did a movie about him.

The Saint of the Wilderness, by Jess Carr.

Before Sheffey would pass away he got a letter from the young baby prayed for in the original post.... “Dear Reverend Sheffey: I finally got your address from the Holston conference, where I learned you are still listed as a local preacher. I am told that many years ago you sat at the foot of...

On the way home, galloping hooves approached from behind him. He guided Gideon to the road shoulder so as to allow the speeding rider all the room he needed. Rather than passing, however, the young boy reined to a halt by Robert’s side. “My brother, George, got bit by a rattlesnake this...

To set the stage for this thread, our hero, the Circuit Rider Robert Sheffey, is traveling his circuit.... Having passed by Wythe County he was invited to a home where a young teenage girl had given birth to a baby. After hearing that the baby was born out of wedlock he asked a young boy...

When the building was cleared Robert faced the elderly preacher, who now stood shivering from the cold. He picked up two of the corncobs at thePreacher’s feet… “Maybe if I put a few of these in the stove we could get some heat back in this place,” Robert said. The older man stopped blotting...

When Robert saw blood dripping from the face of the old man, he could stand it no longer. Leaping over three other men, he picked up the copper kettle by the stove and brought it down hard on the heads of Shem and Clefus. He then turned it over, brought it down on the head of Muley and left it...

The crowd all listened, and Robert sensed something different about this man, some of the men sitting close to him were looking on with a degree of concentration that was not just good acting. The white-thatched preacher pushed a strand of hair from his forehead and announced his text. “Our...

Robert Sheffey also got saved the Arminian way, with all the emotion and hurrah.... The Story of Robert Sheffey begins on his 18th birthday, July 4, 1838, on the streets of Abington, VA. Having being orphaned as a child he is being brought up in a Calvinistic type atmosphere in the home of the...

I live in between the Wabash and Cripple Creek campgrounds, where the old Methodist circuit rider, Robert Sheffey would evangelize. And to let George Clark Rankin tell it.... The famous Cripple Creek Campground was on that work. They have kept up campmeetings there for more than a hundred...

Well... We are going to encourage people to revival, prayer, and the altar. There was a story of an old farmer man seeking religion in these methods who was out in the field plowing. When his horse was not willing to plow wind rows straight enough for his liking he gets angry and starts beating...

To show the beauties of the great Arminian revival! The anatomy of the Methodist revival… 1.A Circuit Rider begins a revival at a local Methodist church 2.Altar Services (called after services) were conducted after the sermon 3.Many would ‘come through’ to Christ and were emotionally affected...

The Cripple Creek camp meeting was probably started by Francis Asbury himself and lasted over 100 years. In my church the men would sit and pray on the left side of the church and the woman on the right, just like they did in the Cripple Creek meetings back in the late 1700's.... And GC Clark...

I would also like to thank God for that autumnal day in the long ago when my name, in like methods, with all the emotion and hurrah, was also registered in the Lamb's Book of Life!

Well, now let me say to you that if you love God, if you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior from sin and if you love your fellowmen and intend by God's help to lead a religious life, that's all there is to religion. In fact, that is all I know about it. Then he repeated several passages of...