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This is a list of the sermons of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. The first four volumes of Wesley's sermons include 44 discourses that are of special significance, while later volumes are also studied by Methodists for their doctrinal and moral teachings.
The sermons he preached to the crowds were much lighter in texture, more anecdotal and more interesting to a popular audience. No man could preach incessantly, as Wesley did — often four or five times a day to all sorts of people — without getting to preach easily and conversationally.
- The Means of Grace
- Free Grace
- On Working Out Our Own Salvation
- The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption
- Salvation by Faith
- The Scripture Way of Salvation
- The Circumcision of The Heart
- The Great Privilege of Those Born of God
- The Righteousness of Faith
- The Great Assize
Text: Malachi 3:7 Ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. It is common knowledge that the Wesleys were high church Anglicans and considered various practices of the faith as means or channels by which divine grace is conveyed to responsive believers. They derived their high churchmanship from their parents, Samuel and Susanna...
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things. Introduction Albert Outler remarked that this sermon is noteworthy for helping to spark a major schism in the ranks of the English Evangelicals. When the Evangelical Revival broke out in the late 1730s, there was no...
Text: Philippians 2:12-13 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. This landmark sermon needs to be understood against the backdrop of the 1770 Minutes Controversy between the Wesleyan Methodists and the Evangelical Calvinists. At the 1770 Conference Wesley ...
Text: Romans 8:15 Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father. Introduction When the Evangelical Revival began in the 1730s, the concept of three spiritual states was one way that evangelicals sought to convince their listeners of their need for new birth by fa...
This famous sermon of John Wesley has been labeled his “evangelical manifesto” (Albert Outler). Wesley always included it first in his publications of sermon collections, and for good reason. For Salvation by Faithenunciates in the clearest terms what he often called his “new gospel.” Here is the sermon: Salvation by Faith Background The story of W...
Text: Ephesians 2:8 Ye are saved through faith. (KJV) When John Wesley experienced evangelical conversion in 1738 he published a sermon proclaiming his new view of salvation by faith in Christ. Titled, Salvation by Faith, Wesley declared that saving faith is trust in Christ’s death and resurrection. He added that salvation is enjoyed right now, in ...
Text: Romans 2:29 Circumcision is that of the Heart, in the spirit, and not of the letter. The Circumcision of the Heart is a landmark sermon on several counts. The dean of Wesley scholars, Albert Outler, was certainly correct that it stands out as “one of Wesley’s most careful and complete statements of his doctrine of holiness.” But the sermon do...
Text: 1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not sin.(KJV) Wesley was a committed Arminian his entire life. He derived it from his parents – Samuel and Susanna – and his High Church Anglicanism. The Anglican Articles of Religion were formulated in the 16th century and included articles that upon their face supported both a Reformed and Arminian i...
Text: Romans 10:5-8 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.” But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the d...
How do you visualize the final judgment? What events will lead up to it? Where does it take place? What events follow? John Wesley visualized the subject in graphic terms. Introduction In 1758 Wesley was invited to preach a sermon before Sir Edward Clive, the puisne justice of the common pleas at Bedford, England. He titled the sermon The Great Ass...
This index of John Wesley's Sermons attempts to arrange them in chronological order; that is, from his earliest written to his latest. The arrangement is based on the work of Timothy L. Smith and Albert C. Outler. Both scholars independently published chronological lists of the sermons.
John Wesley traveled 250,000 miles on horseback, riding twenty miles daily for forty years, preached forty thousand sermons, produced four hundred books, knew ten languages, and at eighty-three was annoyed when he could not write more than fifteen hours a day without huring his eyes.
At a conservative estimate he preached more than 4,000 sermons, some to congregations in excess of 20,000. He would regularly preach four or five times a day. His sermon register from January 1747 to December 1761 reveals that during this period he preached 7,000 sermons on 1,354 texts. He would regularly preach at five in the morning.
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During his ministry John Wesley rode over 250,000 miles on horseback, a distance equal to ten circuits of the globe along the equator. He preached over 40,000 sermons! Charles Wesley wrote...
