Posts by Mark Minnick
Matthew Henry: Serious Self-Examination before Ordination (4)
Mark Minnick Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three ♦ This is Part Four Pastor Minnick offers us Matthew Henry’s thorough meditation of self-examination on the occasion of his ordination. Part One dealt with the question, “What Am I?” and Part Two dealt with the questions, “What Have I Done?” and “From What Principles…
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Mark Minnick Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ This is Part Three ♦ Part Four Pastor Minnick offers us Matthew Henry’s thorough meditation of self-examination on the occasion of his ordination. Part One dealt with the question, “What Am I?” and Part Two dealt with the questions, “What Have I Done?” and “From What Principles…
Read MoreMatthew Henry: Serious Self-Examination before Ordination (2)
Mark Minnick Part One ♦ This is Part Two ♦ Part Three ♦ Part Four Pastor Minnick offers us Matthew Henry’s thorough meditation of self-examination on the occasion of his ordination. Part One dealt with the question, “What Am I?” What Have I Done? This is also a needful question in order that searching and examining…
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Mark Minnick This is Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three ♦ Part Four Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. London: May 9, 1687. The twenty-four-year-old son of Philip Henry,…
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A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ This is Part Three Pastor Minnick’s introductory paragraphs, repeated from part One: At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by…
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A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick Part One ♦ This is Part Two ♦ Part Three Pastor Minnick’s introductory paragraphs, repeated from part One: At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by…
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A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick This is Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by over 8,000 and taught by some 600 instructors,…
Read MoreThe Need to Preach on Preaching (3)
Mark Minnick Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ This is Part Three Introduction (From Part One): All preachers preach, and for that reason sermons are constantly on their minds. But in the main, this is probably true only of those sermons they’re delivering from week to week. It’s another matter entirely to think not about the product of preaching (sermons),…
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Mark Minnick Part One ♦ This is Part Two ♦ Part Three Introduction (From Part One): All preachers preach, and for that reason sermons are constantly on their minds. But in the main, this is probably true only of those sermons they’re delivering from week to week. It’s another matter entirely to think not about the product of preaching (sermons),…
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Mark Minnick This is Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three All preachers preach, and for that reason sermons are constantly on their minds. But in the main, this is probably true only of those sermons they’re delivering from week to week. It’s another matter entirely to think not about the product of preaching (sermons), but about the…
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