Institute for Christian Worship

A Thousand Tongues to Sing

A Symposium Celebrating the Theology and Hymns of Charles Wesley
March 10-11, 2008

"Charles Wesley: Christian, Poet, Evangelist, His Brother’s Keeper" (MP3)
Tom Nettles (SBTS), Plenary Session 1

"A Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On: Why Early Methodists Parted Ways with the Church of England" (MP3)
Lester Ruth (Asbury Theological Seminary), Plenary Session 2
Presentation (PPT)

"Singing Methodists, Singing Baptists: Wesley Hymns in Baptist Worship" (MP3)
David Gregory (SBTS), Plenary Session 3

"Conversion in Hymns and Sermons of the Wesleys" (MP3)
John Tyson (Houghton College), Plenary Session 4

"'Those Who Spurn the Sprinkled Blood': Charles Wesley’s Reflections on Islam" (MP3)
Michael Haykin (SBTS), Breakout Session

"Wesley’s Hymns and Their Tunes: Opera and the Methodists" (MP3)
Margaret Garrett (SBTS), Breakout Session

"Hymn Exposition: 'Come, O Thou Traveller Unknown'" (MP3)
Rodney Sones (SBTS), Breakout Session
Outline (PDF), Handout 1 (PDF), Handout 2 (PDF), Handout 3 (PDF), Handout 4 (PDF)

"What Writers of Modern Worship Songs Can Learn from Wesley" (MP3)
Lester Ruth (Asbury Theological Seminary), Plenary Session 5
Handout (PDF), Presentation (PPT)

Chapel Hymn Sing: A Service of Worship through Wesley Hymns (MP3)
Hymn Commentaries by Esther Crookshank, Tom Nettles, Jim Orrick, and Steve Wellum

"Sanctification & Redemption in Wesley Sermons and Hymns" (MP3)
John Tyson (Houghton College), Plenary Session 6

"'Come, Thou Everlasting Spirit': Spirituality and the Lord’s Supper in Charles Wesley’s Hymns" (MP3)
Michael Haykin (SBTS), Plenary Session 7
Handout (PDF)

"A Thousand Tongues to Sing": A Festival of Wesley Hymns (MP3)
Hymn Commentaries by Donald P. Hustad (SBTS)