WesleyGospel Ministries

12:00 – ABSOLUTE ESSENTIALS

1. The Authority of Scripture.

2. The Person and Work of Christ – blooper reel: E.Z. meant “sinless life”

3. The Gospel and Salvation.

4. The Person of the Holy Spirit.

5. The Doctrine of the Church: the Body of True Believers.

6. The Second Coming of Christ.

7. The Reality of Heaven and Hell.

8. The Doctrine of Original Sin.

9. The Holiness of the Christian Life.

Atheistic websites have tried to “debunk” this recording as a rip-off from a 1972 horror film called Baron Blood. I find it unpersuasive: the audio clips don’t match at all.

Above is a video of the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Many people in Russia believe this rusty, sealed, bolted pipe covering is Dr. Azzacov’s “Well to Hell” from 1990. The urban legend is so popular that two horror films have been based on it. –J.B.

CHURCH HISTORY, Book II. Chapter 15.

1. And thus when the divine word had made its home among them, the power of Simon was quenched and immediately destroyed, together with the man himself. And so greatly did the splendor of piety illumine the minds of Peter’s hearers that they were not satisfied with hearing once only, and were not content with the unwritten teaching of the divine Gospel, but with all sorts of entreaties they besought Mark, a follower of Peter, and the one whose Gospel is extant, that he would leave them a written monument of the doctrine which had been orally communicated to them. Nor did they cease until they had prevailed with the man, and had thus become the occasion of the written Gospel which bears the name of Mark.

2. And they say that Peter — when he had learned, through a revelation of the Spirit, of that which had been done — was pleased with the zeal of the men, and that the work obtained the sanction of his authority for the purpose of being used in the churches. Clement in the eighth book of his Hypotyposes gives this account, and with him agrees the bishop of Hierapolis named Papias. And Peter makes mention of Mark in his first epistle which they say that he wrote in Rome itself, as is indicated by him, when he calls the city, by a figure, Babylon, as he does in the following words: The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, salutes you; and so does Marcus my son. 1 Peter 5:13

Truth is fallen in the street.
–Isaiah 59:14 (KJV)–

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God.
–Romans 3:25 (KJV)–

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God.
–Romans 8:16 (KJV)–

Did not our heart burn within us,
while he talked with us by the way,
and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
–Luke 24:32 (KJV)–

Holding faith, and a good conscience;
which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
–1 Timothy 1:19 (KJV)–

In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. –John Wesley, Journal for May 24, 1738

W. Kostlevy, ed. Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement (Rowman, 2025).

John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Beacon Hill Press, 1966).

—. Calvinism Calmly Considered (Schmul, 2001).

—. Wesleyana (Allegheny Publications, 1979).

Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1990).

Charles Finney, Lectures to Professing Christians (J. S. Taylor, 1837).

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1993).

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994).

Dr. Harald Lindström, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1998).

Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).