Leaders' and Participants' Resources

History, Stories, Quizzes, Fun Stuff

   These resources can help your group to have one of their best studies ever.

Skits, Short Stories or Meditations, Quizzes

• Text book, youth book, map, audiovisual resources...
• An Interactive Quiz about People in Wesley's Day
  When you get the right answer, you are provided with more information about the answer and links for further study.
• A Moment With John Wesley by J. Ann Craig
• John Wesley and Religious Bigotry, a story from J. B. Wakeley
  Anecdotes of the Wesleys: Illustrative of Their Character and Personal History (19th century)
• Susanna Wesley and the Unauthorized Meetings, a story from J. B. Wakeley
  Anecdotes of the Wesleys: Illustrative of Their Character and Personal History (19th century)
• Charles Wesley's Epitaph for Susanna from J. B. Wakeley
  Anecdotes of the Wesleys: Illustrative of Their Character and Personal History (19th century)

United Methodist Theology

• Articles of Religion, Doctrinal Standards, and Beliefs
  from The Book of Discipline
• The Sermons of John Wesley
  (the first 44 sermons by John Wesley are a part of the United Methodist Doctrinal Standards)
• John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the New Testament
  (this book by Wesley is part of the United Methodist Doctrinal Standards)
  Note: This file (size is 700,000 K) is a collection of individual chapters of the book in ASCII format and zipped up. After you click on the hyperlink, your browser will probably ask you how you want to handle the file. Most likely, you will want to choose "save as" and save the file to your own computer for later viewing. After you are offline, you need to have a program such as PKZIP or WINZIP to unzip (unarchive, decompress) the file.

Graphics
The drawing near the top of most the web pages for Holiness of Heart and Life depicts the Reverend John Wesley (1703-1791) at age 48. All of the black and white drawings have been scanned by Nancy A. Carter for the General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church from public domain nineteeth century or early twentieth century Methodist history books. Please acknowledge this web site, John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life, http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/wesley/, if you reproduce these. We now have some graphics available in high resolution format, suitable for print media.