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Insight into Substantive Preaching (5)
Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In Part Two of this series, we offered the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. In Part Three,…
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Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In Part Two of this series, we offered the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. In Part Three,…
Read MoreInsight into Substantive Preaching (3)
Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In Part Two of this series, we offered the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. In today’s post,…
Read MoreInsight into Substantive Preaching (2)
Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In today’s post, we offer the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. Gospel Salvation Is a Great and…
Read MoreJohn Wesley—The Prodigious Worker
Sam Horn In John Wesley, God sent to His church one of her most prodigious laborers in the gospel. Wesley traveled more than 250,000 miles in the course of more than fifty years of ministry. He wrote or edited more than 200 works of sermons, hymns, and commentaries, and he founded the Methodist denomination and…
Read MoreInsight into Substantive Preaching (1)
Mark Minnick On the desk beside me lies a 1694 first edition of forty sermons by the early London Baptist, Benjamin Keach (1640–1704). Keach, one of the predecessors in the ministry assumed by C. H. Spurgeon over two centuries later, entitled his volume A Golden Mine Opened: Or, The Glory of God’s Rich Grace Displayed…
Read MoreTheology Matters (2.3): Defining Terms Proportionally
Mark Minnick This is a continuation of a series, the previous section was posted yesterday, other links below. In the previous portions, Dr. Minnick discussed the importance of Defining Terms Honestly and Defining Terms Accurately. Today he moves to Defining Terms Proportionally Proportion A third important criterion by which to test our theology is proportionality.…
Read MoreTheology Matters (2.2): Defining Terms Accurately
Mark Minnick This is a continuation of a series, the first section was posted yesterday, other links below. In the previous portion, Dr. Minnick discussed the importance of Defining Terms Honestly. Today he moves to Defining Terms Accurately Self-Education This leads inevitably to a second necessary application of the importance of definitions. We show our…
Read MoreTheology Matters (2.1): Defining Terms Honestly
Mark Minnick John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress recounts Christian’s visit to the instructive home of a good brother named Interpreter. This astute believer, charged by the Lord to prepare pilgrims for their journey, conducts Christian through the various rooms of his house. Each contains some parabolic lesson, but the first is especially significant. It contains a…
Read MoreTheology Matters (1.2) – How to Check Our Theology
Mark Minnick Part 1.1 published yesterday. How to Check Our Theology Given the magnitude of our theological ministry, we preachers must willingly submit our teaching to a rigorous Scriptural scrutiny. Not that we turn our people into critics, but that we be ourselves Bereans. To evaluate ourselves objectively, however, we’re going to have to abandon…
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