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Theology Matters (1.1) – Why Theology Matters
Mark Minnick I may not even know what a “theology” is, but I can’t avoid having one. That’s because “theo-logy” is a “word” (logos) about “God” (theos), and everyone, even an atheist, has something that he believes and says about God. He has a theology. Why Theology Matters Theology matters, therefore, in the first place,…
Read MoreChrist Is Supreme Because He Is Man (Hebrews 2:5–9)
Layton Talbert Have you ever been stumped by a child’s theological question? It is a humbling reminder that sometimes children see things we have not noticed. A query from my daughter prompted a closer examination of the nuanced Christological argument of Hebrews 1–2. In that argument, the quotation of Psalm 8 in 2:6–8 raises the…
Read MoreMatthew 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…
Read MoreMatthew Henry: Serious Self-Examination before Ordination (3)
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…
Read MoreMatthew Henry: Serious Self-Examination before Ordination (1)
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,…
Read MoreNot an Atom More of Sacred Service (3)
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…
Read MoreNot an Atom More of Sacred Service (2)
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…
Read MoreNot an Atom More of Sacred Service (1)
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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