The school was named after a street in London where John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, had a pivotal spiritual experience.
Rev John Kirk 1795–1858, divine and biographer (of Susannah Wesley mother of John Wesley, The Mother of the Wesleys, Jarrold, London 1868), Church of Scotland minister in Arbirlot 1837–1843 and later first Free Church of Scotland minister in Arbirlot
It featured guest appearances by electronic pioneer Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream as well as John Wesley of Porcupine Tree.
Fairseat Farmhouse is from the 18th century and includes a plaque recording that John Wesley preached at the house on 10 September 1790.
A marker commemorating a thanksgiving service which John Wesley gave after his first arrival in Georgia is also on the grounds.
He began to study the theological roots of Methodism in the work of John Wesley, and developed a theological perspective on Wesley (and Methodism in general) as a development of sound Reformation theology.
Jars of Clay wrote the music and altered the translated lyrics (of John Wesley) slightly for the version that appears on Redemption Songs.
They were known as a close-knit group of aggressive, hard-drinking men: John Wesley, after visiting Newcastle, described them as much given to drunkenness and swearing.
The founder of Methodism, John Wesley, was a great believer of the treatment, which became so popular, that he eventually opened three clinics dedicated to it.
In 1772, John Wesley himself preached there, despite his well-known feelings on the people of the Huddersfield area.
Otto von Gerlach published a major rewrite of the old and new testament after Martin Luther, and translated several important texts of the Great Awakening movement from English into German, including works by John Wesley (1703–1791), Richard Baxter (1615–1691), and Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847).
Religious life in the area is represented with exhibits related to John Wesley who founded Methodism and John Skinner who, as well as being rector of Camerton was also an archaeologist and antiquarian.
Red House was also regularly visited by John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the Methodist preachers who were friends of John Taylor, the great-grandson of William Taylor.
John Wesley visited the gardens in 1784, and wrote of "a gently rising ground on the top of which the gentry of the town frequently spend the evening in dancing. From hence spread various walks, bordered with flowers, one of which leads down to the river".
One of the stronger, more vocal proponents of Unlimited atonement was John Wesley.
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June 28 (n.s.) – John Wesley (died 1791), cleric and Christian theologian who was the founder of Methodism, psalmist and hymnist
Over the next three decades, P.S.1 became one of the most respected exhibition and performance spaces in New York, with such exhibitions as New York, New Wave (1981); Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956 (1993); Greater New York (2000 and 2005), and Arctic Hysteria (2008); Robert Grosvenor (1976); Keith Sonnier (1983); Alex Katz: Under the Stars, American Landscapes 1951-1995 (1998); John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000 (2000), and Gino De Dominicis (2008).
Also on this street is the church of St. Botolph's-without-Aldersgate, and the site of the Moravian meeting room where John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, reaffirmed his faith on Wednesday 24 May 1738, which is marked by a plaque.
The afore-mentioned inn may have been the establishment which gave shelter and hospitality to the founder of Methodism, John Wesley In the 1770s, during one of his many tours through Ireland he recorded how bad weather forced him to stay the night at a local inn, whose proprietor was sympathetic to his message.
Over the north entrance of the building there can be found idealized statues of John Wesley his brother Charles Wesley and Susanna Wesley, their mother.
He was a student of the writings of John Wesley and John Fletcher and eventually joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Edmund Calamy gives particulars of a long conference between him and John Westley, grandfather of John Wesley.
The Methodists formed a new church in the early 18th century as a break away movement from the established Church (Church of England), mainly by two Anglican ministers, John Wesley, the preacher and his brother, Charles Wesley, the hymn writer.
The church, like many others, resembles the shape of a ship, symbolizing a vessel for God's work, and it is well known for its stained glass windows picturing twelve reformers: Gustavus Adolphus, John Huss, John Wycliffe, Philipp Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Harriet Tubman, John Knox, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Wesley.
While living at Barnstaple, Badcock became acquainted with the daughter of Samuel Wesley, the master of Blundell's School in Tiverton and elder brother of John Wesley.
As a preacher, he could be considered a moralist along the lines of other reformers such as John Wesley, Menno Simons or John Chrysostom.
John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, and Thomas Adam all express their deep obligation to the author.