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- The 1 John podcast series will recommence soon.

New Material from Percy Gutteridge

New Material by Isaiah Reid

New Audio Book Chapters

New in Powerful Poetry

King David worshipping (licensed from http://123RF.com/#finestofthewheat)

Bible Teaching by Jim Kerwin

Brief Background on Jim and Denise Kerwin
The Rejected Blessing
“And Joseph Was Brought Down...”
A Book Unsealed
Who Was the Angel of the LORD?
That Uncomfortable Word—Conviction!
Getting In or Letting In? Have We Got the Gospel Backwards?
That Treasure Trove of Truth: “Hark! The Herald-Angels Sing”
We Will Reap, IF…
The Repentance and Holiness Series:
- Circumcision—A Type of Sanctification
- Leper in the Throne Room
The Hearing God Series:
Evangelical Myths Series:
- “Simon, Do You Love Me?”—The Myth of “Agapao” and “Phileo”
Books authored or edited by Jim Kerwin
- The Rejected Blessing: An Untold Story of the Early Days of the Pentecostal Movement (foreword by Dr. Vinson Synan)
- Boyhood Memories and Lessons by Rev. Isaiah Reid (autobiographical accounts of Reid’s Covenanter childhood compiled, edited, and annotated by Jim Kerwin)
- Sunnyside Papers: Inspirational Sketches from God’s “Book of Nature” by Rev. Isaiah Reid (a collection of some of Reid’s beloved and best nature pieces and devotional material; compiled, edited, and annotated by Jim and Denise Kerwin)
Audio files of messages by Jim Kerwin:
- Forgiveness Is Conditional
- Helping Our People to Recognize God's Voice
- Importunity—Being a Pain in the Neck
- Six Visits from Isaiah Reid
- The Disciple Jesus Loves
- The “Rejected Blessing“ Interviews on WAVA-AM (three audio messages)
- The Seven Words from the Cross
- What Is A Church? Series
- Bible Study in First John (from the Kernels of Wheat Podcast)
  - Episode 0: “On Your Mark, Get Set…”
  - Episode 1: Words We Think We Know
  - Episode 2: Asking the Right Question
  - Episode 3: No “God Bag” Needed!
  - Episode 4: God Is Light (1 John 1:5)
  - Episode 5: God’s First Popular Translation
  - Episode 6: When Is Walking More than Walking?
  - Episode 7: Walking in Freedom (1 John 1:7)
  - Episode 8: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! (1 John 1:6,8-10)
  - Episode 9: That Uncomfortable Word
  - Episode 10: That Uncomfortable Word, Part 2
  - Episode 11: The Original Aromas of Christmas (a holiday hiatus from the Bible study in 1 John)
  - Episode 12: Are You Fulfilling Bible Prophecy? (a holiday hiatus from the Bible study in 1 John)
  - Episode 13: The Love Meter (1 John 2:1-6)
  - Episode 14: A New Gift from Jesus (1 John 2:6-11)
  - Episode 15: Walking into Maturity (1 John 2:12-14)
  - Episode 16: If “God So Loved the World,” Why Am I Not Allowed To? (1 John 2:15-17)
  - Episode 17: Why the Impossible Is Impossible (1 John 2:15-17)
  - Episode 18: An Unhappy Heresy (1 John 2:18-29)
  - Episode 19: What We Don’t Know About “The Anointing” (1 John 2:18-29)
  - Episode 20: Do You Have Indoor Plumbing? (1 John 2:18-29)
  - Episode 21: Does God Hate Socks?
  - Episode 22: We Lend a Hand with LendAHand
  - Episode 23: Will the Real Antichrist(s) Please Stand Up? (1 John 2:15-29; 4:1-6; 2 John 7)
  - Episode 24: Antichrist—In the Pew Next to You? (1 John 2:15-29; 4:1-6; 2 John 7)
- Bible Study in the Gospel of Matthew
- Bonus Kernels of Wheat Podcasts
Short Background Articles:

Bible Teaching by Percy Gutteridge

Materials in Print from Percy Gutteridge
- Books and Booklets
  - Faith Is Substance
  - The Black Hole
- Articles from Transcriptions of Audio Messages
Audio Files of Messages Preached by Percy Gutteridge
- Uncataloged Messages:
  - A Son or Daughter of God
  - As A Little Child
  - Simon Peter or Simple Simon? (an Easter message)
  - The Impotent Man
  - The Father of Lights
  - Why Revival Tarries
  - “Upon This Rock”
- The Lord Jesus and His Ministry Series (20 messages):
  1. The Ministries of John and Jesus
- The Christian Education Series (22 messages):
- The Christian Life Series (36 messages):
  1. Break Me, Melt Me, Mold Me, Fill Me
  1. Disappointment: One of God’s Greatest Gifts
  2. The Heavenly Race
  1. Waiting on the Lord
  1. The Spirit of the Lion and the Lamb
  1. Logos and Rhema
  1. Prayer, God’s Gift
- The Gospel and Its Call Series (15 messages):
  1. Earth’s Most Powerful Preacher
  1. The Gospel of the Glory
  2. The Story of Ruth
- The Holy Spirit Series (10 messages):
- The God in Creation and Providence Series (11 messages):
- The Old Testament Types Series (24 messages):
  1. Dividing the Hoof and Chewing the Cud
  1. – 20. The Studies in the Book of Joshua Sub-series (5 messages):
- The Parables of Our Lord Series (6 messages):
- The Glory of the New Covenant (and the Fading of the Old) Series (6 messages):
  1. Why Elijah Must Make Way for Elisha

Percy Gutteridge Material in Process and Planning

The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ: an eleven-part overview of the Book of Revelation (2014)

Bible Teaching by Thomas Cook

Bible Teaching by John Wesley

Book: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection:

Bible Teaching by Isaiah Reid

Books by Isaiah Reid

Boyhood Memories and Lessons (autobiographical accounts of Reid’s Covenanter childhood, compiled, edited, and annotated by Jim Kerwin)
Sunnyside Papers: Inspirational Sketches from God’s “Book of Nature” (a collection of some of Reid’s beloved and best nature pieces and devotional material; compiled, edited, and annotated by Jim and Denise Kerwin)

Bible Teaching Articles by Isaiah Reid

Online Books by Isaiah Reid

God’s Ways and Man’s Methods of Becoming Holy, Contrasted
- Introductory
- Chapter 1: Definitions
- Chapter 2: First Theory: “I Was Born So.”
- Chapter 3: Second Theory: “I Was Sanctified at Conversion.”
- Chapter 4: Third Theory: “I Expect to Grow into It.”
- Chapter 5: Fourth Theory: “I Am Holy in Christ Without Being Holy in Myself.”
- Chapter 6: Fifth Theory: By Repression of Indwelling Sin
- Chapter 7: Sixth Theory: “I Expect to Become So at Death.”
- Chapter 8: God’s Way to Holiness
- Chapter 9: Denominationally Holy
- Chapter 10: In What Sense Sinless? Or, Sinless and Christian Perfection Contrasted
The Holy Way
“How They Grow”
Soul-Help Papers
- Introduction: Prefatory Note
- Chapter 1: Tarshish Ships: Permission, or Approval of God?
- Chapter 2: Our St. Bernard’s Passes or Open Doors
- Chapter 3: God’s Way or My Way?
- Chapter 4: Concerning Taking All As From God
- Chapter 5: We Make and Carry the Light We See By
- Chapter 6: “As Thy Day”
- Chapter 7: Character, Decree, Destiny
- Chapter 8: The Danger of Standing Still
- Chapter 9: Departing Ravens and Drying Brooks
- Chapter 10: Out of the Good Into the Better
- Chapter 11: Affliction and Growth
- Chapter 12: Discouraged States
- Chapter 13: As to Vision
- Chapter 14: Soul Fire
- Chapter 15: Spiritual Gifts and Ignorance Concerning Them
- Chapter 16: The “Can’t-Get-Over” Places
- Chapter 17: Spoiled Pastures
- Chapter 18: Ungranted Desires
- Chapter 19: Walking and Talking
- Chapter 20: Concerning the Undesired and Unexpected
- Chapter 21: The Perils of Postmeridian Life

Historical Articles by Isaiah Reid

The Founding of the Iowa Holiness Association

Isaiah Reid Material in Process and Planning

The Story of Wilda Weeks (beginning July 2012)

Free Audio Books

New Testament Holiness by Thomas Cook

Powerful Poetry,
an introduction
to Classical Christian verse

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Backward, Christian Soldiers by Anonymous
Be Thou Removed by Joseph Ellison
Begin, My Soul, Some Heavenly Theme by Isaac Watts
Behold the Saviour of Mankind by Samuel Wesley
Behold, the Grace Appears by Isaac Watts
Blessed Lord, In Thee Is Refuge by Herbert Booth
Blest Are the Humble Souls that See by Isaac Watts
Blest Are the Humble Souls that See by Isaac Watts. (This is a presentation of the hymn that parallels Watts’ verses with the text of Matthew 5:2-12.)
Blest Spirit! from the Eternal Sire by John Wesley
Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow! by Charles Wesley
Breathe on Me, Breath of God! by Edwin Hatch
Burial of Moses (also known by its first line, By Nebo's Lonely Mountain) by Cecil Frances Alexander
Buried with Christ by T. Ryder

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Christ the Lord Is Risen Today! by Charles Wesley
Christmas Day by Reginald Heber
Church of God, Beloved and Chosen by Frances Ridley Havergal
Come, All Ye Chosen Saints of God by Joseph Hart
Come, Holy Ghost, All Quickening Fire [version 1] by Charles and John Wesley
Come, Holy Ghost, All Quickening Fire [version 2] by Charles and John Wesley
Come, Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire by Charles Wesley
Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare by John Newton
Come, O My God, The Promise Seal by Charles Wesley
Come, O Thou Traveller Unknown by Charles Wesley (also known as Wrestling Jacob)
Come, Saviour, Jesus, from Above! by Antoinette Bourignon
tranlsated by John Wesley
Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast! by Charles Wesley
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing by Robert Robinson
Come, Ye Lofty, Come, Ye Lowly by Archer Gurney
Come, Ye Thankful People Come by Henry Alford
Come, Ye that Love the Lord by Isaac Watts and Robert Lowry (also known as We’re Marching to Zion)
Come On, My Partners in Distress by Charles Wesley
Come Ye Yourselves Apart and Rest Awhile by Edward Bickersteth
Consecration Hymn by Chaplain Charles C. McCabe
Cradled in a Manger, Meanly by George Rowe
Crown Him With Many Crowns! by Matthew Bridges and Godfrey Thring

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Dear Lord and Father of Mankind by John Greenleaf Whittier
Desire Of God by Frederick W. Faber
Doxology (see the last verse) by Thomas Ken
Dwelling in Beulah Land by C. Austin Miles

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Faith of Our Fathers by Frederick W. Faber
Far Away the Noise of Strife by C. Austin Miles
Father, I Dare Believe by Charles Wesley
Father of Jesus Christ My Lord by Charles Wesley
Fed Upon the Finest of the Wheat by Frederick A. Graves (also known by its first line, Hungry, Lord, for Thy Word of Truth)
For All the Saints by William How
Fourth Sunday in Advent by Reginald Heber
From Heav'n to Earth My Savior Came by William J. Kirkpatrick

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Get The Flame! (Anonymous; from the Azusa Street Revival)
Gethsemane by Joseph Hart
Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove by Charles Wesley
Give the First to Jesus by Anonymous
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken by John Newton
Glory to God and Praise and Love by Charles Wesley (a hymn more popularly known today as O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing)
God in Heaven Hath a Treasure by Emma Frances Bevan
God Is Ever Good! by Anonymous
God Moves in a Mysterious Way by William Cowper
God of All Power, and Truth, and Grace by Charles Wesley

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Hallelujah! What a Savior! by Philip P. Bliss
Hark! Ten Thousand Voices Crying by John Nelson Darby
Hark! The Herald-Angels Sing by Charles Wesley
Have Thine Own Way, Lord! by Adelaide Pollard
Have You Been to Jesus for the Cleansing Power? by Elisha Hoffman
He Dies—The Friend of Sinners Dies! by Isaac Watts
He Keeps Me Singing by Luther Bridgers
He's a Friend of Mine by John Sammis
Help, Lord, the Busy Foe by Charles Wesley
Holy As Thou, O Lord, Is None by Charles Wesley
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty! by Reginald Heber
Hosanna to the Living Lord! by Reginald Heber
How Good Is the God We Adore by Joseph Hart
How Happy Is the Pilgrim's Lot! by Charles and John Wesley
How I Praise Thee, Precious Saviour by Mary E. Maxwell
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds by John Newton
Hungry, Lord, for Thy Word of Truth by Frederick A. Graves (also known by its title, Fed Upon the Finest of the Wheat)
Hymn to Be Sung on the Anniversary of One's Birth by Charles Wesley (a hymn more popularly known today as O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing)

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I Am Coming to the Cross by William McDonald
I Am Thine, O Lord by Fanny J. Crosby
I Ask Not for the Highest Place by Johnson Oatman, Jr.
I Believe Jesus Saves by Francis Bottome
I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal
I Hear Thy Welcome Voice by Lewis Hartsough
I Know Not Why God's Wondrous Grace (better known by its chorus as I Know Whom I Have Believed) by Daniel Webster Whittle
I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord! by Timothy Dwight
I Stand All Bewildered with Wonder by Wilbur F. Crafts
I Want a Principle Within by Charles Wesley
I Worship Thee, Sweet Will of God by Frederick W. Faber
I’ll Praise My Maker While I’ve Breath by Isaac Watts
I’ll Praise My Maker While I’ve Breath by Isaac Watts. (This is a presentation of the hymn that parallels Watts’ verses with the text of Psalm 146.)
I've Reached the Land of Corn and Wine by Edgar Page Stites
In Christ There Is No East or West by William Dunkerley
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise by Walter Smith
Indifference by Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy
In Heavenly Love Abiding by Anna Waring
Infinite, Unexhausted Love! by Charles Wesley
It Passeth Knowledge, That Dear Love of Thine by Mary Shekelford

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Jesu, Come, My Hope of Glory by Charles Wesley
Jesu, Thou Strength of All That Turn by Charles Wesley
Jesu, Thy Blood and Righteousness by Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf (Count) von Zinzendorf (translated by John Wesley)
Jesus Christ Is Made to Me by Charles P. Jones
Jesus, All-Atoning Lamb by Charles Wesley
Jesus Hath Died that I Might Live by Charles Wesley
Jesus, I Am Resting, Resting by Jean Sophia Pigott
Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken by Henry F. Lyte
Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts
Jesus! The Name High Over All by Charles Wesley
Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me by Paul Gerhardt, translated by John Wesley
Joy in the Holy Ghost by John Mason
Joy to the World by Isaac Watts
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee by Henry J. van Dyke
Just As I Am by Charlotte Elliott

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“Man of Sorrows,” What a Name! by Philip P. Bliss
Marching to Zion by Isaac Watts and Robert Lowry
Master, Speak! Thy Servant Heareth (also known as Master, Say On!) by Frances Ridley Havergal
More Love To Thee, O Christ! by Elizabeth Prentiss
My Body, Soul, and Spirit by Chaplain Charles C. McCabe
My Goal Is God Himself by Frederick Brook
My God, How Wonderful Thou Art! by Frederick W. Faber
My God, I Thank Thee, Who Hast Made by Adelaide Procter
My Savior Suffered on the Tree by Hodgson Casson
My Soul and I by John Greenleaf Whittier
My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord by John Mason

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O Beulah Land by Edgar Page Stites
O for a Closer Walk with God by William Cowper
O For A Heart To Praise My God by Charles Wesley
O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing by Charles Wesley, or, as known by its original title, Hymn to Be Sung on the Anniversary of One's Conversion
O Glorious Hope of Perfect Love by Charles Wesley
O God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts
O God, the World Is Lost in Sin by Bessie Hatcher
O God, What Offering Shall I Give by Joachim Lange and translated by John Wesley
O How the Thought of God Attracts by Frederick W. Faber
O Jesus, Make Thyself to Me by Charlotte Elliott
O Jesus, The Rest by Charles Wesley
O Joyful Sound of Gospel Grace! by Charles Wesley
O Love Divine, How Sweet Thou Art! by Charles Wesley
O Perfect Love by Dorothy Gurney
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded by Bernard of Clairvaux and Paul Gerhardt (translated by James W. Alexander)
O Saviour, Precious Saviour by Frances Ridley Havergal
O Soul, Are You Weary and Troubled? otherwise known as Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus by Helen Lemmel
O the Bitter Shame and Sorrow by Theordore Monod
O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus! by Samuel Trevor Francis
O Thou Who Camest From Above by Charles Wesley
O Worship the King! by Robert Grant
O Zion, Haste! by Mary Ann Thomson
Of Him Who Did Salvation Bring by Bernard of Clairvaux
Oh for Freedom, for Freedom in Worshipping God by Frederick W. Faber
Oh Saviour, Is Thy Promise Fled? by Reginald Heber
Oh Saviour, Whom This Happy Morn by Reginald Heber
On Our Way Rejoicing! by Frances Ridley Havergal
On the Victory Side by James L. Black
Onward, Christian Soldiers by Sabine Baring-Gould
Our Blest Redeemer, Ere He Breathed by Harriet Auber
Our Souls Cry Out, Hallelujah! by James L. Black
Over and Over Again by Anonymous

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Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow (see the last verse) by Thomas Ken
Prayer Is the Soul's Sincere Desire by James Montgomery
Prisoners of Hope, Arise by Charles Wesley

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Safe Home, Safe Home in Port by either Joseph of the Studium or by Joseph the Hymnographer and translated by John Neale Mason
Saviour, Like A Shepherd Lead Us by Dorothy Thrupp
Saviour from Sin, I Want to Prove by Charles and John Wesley
Saviour of the Nations, Come! by Ambrose of Milan
Search Me, O God by J. Edwin Orr
Second Sunday in Advent by Reginald Heber
See How Great a Flame Aspires! by Charles Wesley
Send the Fire! by William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
She Only Touched the Hem of His Garment by George Root
Since the Son Hath Made Me Free by Charles and John Wesley
Sing the Great Jehovah's Praise! by Charles Wesley
Sinners, Obey the Gospel-Word! by Charles Wesley
Sinners, Turn! Why Will You Die? by Charles Wesley
Some Day the Silver Cord Will Break by Fanny Crosby
Sound the Battle Cry! by William Sherwin
Speak, Lord, in the Stillness by E. May Grimes
Spirit of Faith, Come Down by Charles Wesley
Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart by George Croly
Standing on the Promises by R. Kelso Carter
Sunday by Frederick W. Faber
Sweeping Through the Gates of the New Jerusalem by Tullius Clinton O'Kane

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Take My Life And Let It Be by Frances Ridley Havergal
Take Time To Be Holy by William D. Longstaff
Talk With Us, Lord by Charles Wesley
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand by Henry Alford
Thanks Be to God! by Frances Ridley Havergal
The Babes in Christ Should Nothing Know by Charles Wesley
The Blessed Nation by Georgia Elliott
The Brewing of Soma by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Church’s One Foundation by Samuel J. Stone
The Doxology (see the last verse) by Thomas Ken
The Galilean Fishers Toil by Christopher Wordsworth
The God of Abraham Praise by Thomas Olivers
The Grace of God by William J. Kirkpatrick
The Lord Will Come! by Reginald Heber
The Mystic’s Christmas by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Nativity of Christ by Isaac Watts
The New Song by A. T. Pierson
The Safe Return by either Joseph of the Studium or by Joseph the Hymnographer and translated by Mason, John Neale
The Savior of Men Came to Seek and to Save by Albert Orsborn
The Sower Went Forth Sowing by William Bourne
The Vale of Nazareth by Benjamin Kerr Maltby
The World Is Grown Old by Reginald Heber
Thee Will I Love, My Strength, My Tower by Johann Scheffler, translated by John Wesley
There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood by William Cowper
There Is a Light that Shines on Me by Catherine Booth-Clibborn
There Is Power in the Blood! by Lewis Jones
There Is Singing Up In Heaven by Johnson Oatman, Jr.
There's a Light upon the Mountain by Henry Burton
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy by Frederick W. Faber
There's within My Heart a Melody by Luther Bridgers
They Who Know the Saviour by Mrs. C. H. Morris
Thine Be the Glory, Risen, Conqu’ing Son! by Edmond Budry
Third Sunday in Advent by Reginald Heber
This Is My Father's World! by Maltbie Babcock
This Same Jesus by Frances Ridley Havergal
Thou Art Coming, O My Savior! by Frances Ridley Havergal
Thou Art the Everlasting Word by Josiah Conder
Thou Christ of Burning, Cleansing Flame by William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne by Emily Elliott
Thou Hidden Love Of God by Gerhard Tersteegen and translated by John Wesley
Thou Lamb of God by Christian Friedrich Richter and translated by John Wesley
Thou Thinkest, Lord, of Me by Edmund S. Lorenz
Thou Whose Name Is Called Jesus by Jean Sophia Pigott
Through All the Changing Scenes by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady
Time Speeds Away by Vicesemus Knox
’Tis Finished! The Messiah Dies by Charles Wesley
’Tis Not for Gifts Alone by Mary Olivant
To God Be the Glory by Fanny J. Crosby
To the Haven of Thy Breast by Charles and John Wesley
To Thee and to Thy Christ, O God by Anne R. Cousin
Truehearted, Wholehearted, Faithful and Loyal by Frances Ridley Havergal
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus otherwise known as O Soul, Are You Weary and Troubled? by Helen Lemmel

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Y

Ye Ransomed Sinners, Hear by Charles Wesley

Ye Servants of God by Charles and John Wesley

Yes, God Is God, in Earth and Sky by John Gurney

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