Matt O'Reilly, PhD

Is holiness a missing element in evangelical theology? That’s what Gordon T. Smith says in the opening chapter of his recent book, Called...

During my recent trip to Wilmore, Kentucky, I had the opportunity to film another episode for Seedbed‘s growing Seven Minute Seminary...

I recently posted a few reflections on John Wesley’s instruction that Methodist preachers ought to preach the doctrine of holiness (or...

What did John Wesley expect his preachers to preach about? What should be the heart of their message? Near the end of his short book, A...

Is sin essential to human experience? What if it’s not? What if Jesus died so we could stop sinning? What if full human life is a fully...

Upon the recommendation of a very good friend, I began reading through Joseph Pieper’s The Four Cardinal Virtues. Not surprisingly, the...

http://www.podbean.com/media/player/audio/postId/5338718/url/http%253A%252F%252Fstmarkumc.podbean.com%252Fe%252Ffully-focused-on-the-fini...

http://www.podbean.com/media/player/audio/postId/5320402/url/http%253A%252F%252Fstmarkumc.podbean.com%252Fe%252Fchristlike-in-real-life-p...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve just begun a new appointment to St. Mark United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama. It’s a great...

Whether using a shamrock to illustrate the Trinity or running the snakes out of Ireland, St. Patrick is known for many legendary and even...

This is John Wesley. And this vision of Christianity is why I am, and will remain, a Methodist. “Love is the fulfilling of the law, the...

I’ve often heard that John Wesley’s emphasis on Entire Sanctification (or Christian Perfection) was not only the result of his reading of...

Seedbed has just announced a new partnership with First Fruits Publishing to release a number of classic Wesleyan-holiness works and...

John Wesley’s conviction that the Methodist movement existed primarily to proclaim the doctrine of Christian perfection (or entire...

It has sometimes been suggested that “Methodist beliefs” is an oxymoron. Fortunately, an increasing number of voices are working to...

I finally got around to downloading and listening to the Chamberlain Holiness Lectures delivered last fall by Rev. Dr. Calvin T. Samuel...

I was struck by this quote from James D.G. Dunn on holiness in the Bible: I still want to maintain that wherever the concept of...

I’m grateful to Craig Adams for his thoughtful interaction with my previous post on finding our Wesleyan voice. Craig made some good...

Grace that transforms I recall reading John Wesley’s A Plain Account of Christian Perfection for the first time. I remember that I was...

The doctrine of Christian perfection needs to be recaptured and restated today. And a recent, if unexpected restatement of some core...