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The Need to Preach on Preaching (2)
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…
Read MoreSketches of Non-Conformists (3)
Mark Minnick Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ This is Part Three [Part One introduced the historical situation of the Non-Conformist preachers of seventeenth century England and offered our first three sketches. In Part Two and now Part Three, the sketches continue.] St. Hilary, Mr. Joseph Sherwood. Soon after his ejection he was cited to…
Read MoreThe Competitive Nature of the Christian Life
Walter Kirk When one enters the Christian life through belief and trust in Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior, he also enters into the arena of conflict and competition. The Christian life is by its nature competitive. The old life prior to conversion has been shed, and the believer now stands on God’s side,…
Read MoreChrist at the Tomb of Lazarus
Gary Reimers “When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept” (John 11:33–35). In this passage John presents the response of Jesus Christ to…
Read MoreSketches of Non-Conformists (2)
Mark Minnick Part One ♦ This is Part Two ♦ Part Three [Part One introduced the historical situation of the Non-Conformist preachers of seventeenth century England and offered our first three sketches. In Part Two, the sketches continue.] St. Mary, Fifth-Street, Mr. Thomas Brooks. He was a very affecting preacher, and useful to many. Though…
Read MoreJoy in the Life of the Believer
Mike Yarborough Principal Rainy, of whom a child once remarked that she believed he went to Heaven every night because he was so happy every day, once used a fine metaphor about a Christian’s joy. “Joy,” he said, “is the flag which is flown from the castle of the heart when the King is in…
Read MoreRestoring a Sinning Brother
Ron Allen Galatians 6:1–5 deals with the subject of restoring a sinning brother. When a brother is caught up in a sinful situation, the Spirit-controlled believer is commanded to help mend or repair or restore his fellow Christian. As the Apostle Paul enlarges upon this subject, he makes two statements that seem to rival one…
Read MoreSketches of Non-Conformists (1)
Mark Minnick This is Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three August 24 this year marked the three-hundred fortieth anniversary of the infamous 1662 ejection of nonconforming English and Scottish ministers from their pulpits. Some 2,000 English and 300 Scottish ministers, nearly one-quarter of all ordained pastors in those countries, were forcibly put out…
Read MoreProvidential Dullness? Luke 18:34
Layton Talbert The writers of the synoptic Gospels record three occasions on which the Lord Jesus explicitly forewarned his disciples of His approaching betrayal, death and resurrection. (See a harmony of the Gospels to compare the exact parallel passages.) The first occasion prompted Peter’s rebuke of the Lord and the Lord’s rebuke in reply (Mt.16/…
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