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“The Yearning of the Spirit” James 4:5
Dave Pennington Many consider James 4:5 to be one of the most difficult passages to interpret within the entire epistle. Some believe it is one of the most difficult verses to interpret within the entire New Testament. While every Bible student will wrestle with this challenging verse, interpreting and applying its content provides both intellectual…
Read MoreA Ministry of Necessary Controversy (3)
Mark Minnick This is Part Three of four parts • One • Two • Four In Part One, Dr. Minnick introduces Benjamin Keach and some of the features of his life and times which produced Benjamin Keach, the controversialist. In Part Two, Dr. Minnick covers Keach’s early ministry as he faced imprisonment and persecution for…
Read MoreA Ministry of Necessary Controversy (2)
Mark Minnick This is Part Two of four parts • One • Three • Four In Part One, Dr. Minnick introduces Benjamin Keach and some of the features of his life and times which produced Benjamin Keach, the controversialist. Tempering the Metal Although experiencing little trouble initially, the young Baptist preacher drew the government’s ire…
Read MoreAdoption
David Burggraff “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage . . . but ye have received the Spirit of adoption” (Romans 8:15). In Romans 8:14–17 Paul is introducing us to one of the great but sometimes neglected metaphors for the Christian’s relationship to God. Here he describes the Christian as adopted into the…
Read MoreA Ministry of Necessary Controversy
Mark Minnick This is Part One of four parts • Two • Three • Four Lying here open beside me is a precious volume published in 1694. A Golden Mine Opened contains 40 stirring messages on the mediatorial work of the Lord Jesus Christ. My volume has passed through many hands over the last 300 years, including several generations of Halls,…
Read MoreSeven Vital Volumes for Baptist Pastors
David Cummins One of the joys of an itinerant ministry is visiting pastors’ libraries. I have occasionally discovered books for which I have long searched. Usually, one of my first questions to a host pastor is, “Where is your Baptist section?” On many such occasions pastors appeared confounded. It is apparent that many have never…
Read MoreWhy Despair? (Help for depression) [3]
Mark Minnick The third and last of three parts • Part One • Part Two Part One introduced writings on the subject by Charles Jefferson, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City from 1898–1937. The first header was “The Character of Ministerial Depression: Complaint”, excerpted from a book called Quiet Hints to Growing…
Read MoreWhy Despair? (Help for depression) [2]
Mark Minnick The second of three parts • Part One • Part Three Part One introduced writings on the subject by Charles Jefferson, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City from 1898–1937. The first header was “The Character of Ministerial Depression: Complaint”, excerpted from a book called Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers. Though…
Read MoreWhy Despair? (Help for depression) [1]
Mark Minnick The first of three parts • Part Two • Part Three “Oh,” but you ask, “why not despair? Surely, if anyone has a right to it, I do. Who would not if he were me?” Well, there are many who have known your pain. “I am the subject of depressions of spirit so…
Read MoreWindows: Cutting Straight with the Word of Truth
2 Timothy 2:14–26 Fred Moritz Think with me for a moment about Paul, who made tents to help support himself in his church planting ministry (Acts 18:1–3). We can imagine him as he receives an order for a tent. He lays out the rough camel-hair cloth, with which tents were then made, and places a…
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