Posts by Mark Minnick
Stubborn, Ceaseless Civil War (1)
Mark Minnick All Christ’s followers, ministers or otherwise, are in one of three states of spiritual warfare: (1) some have given up battling almost entirely, (2) some are battling weakly but generally unsuccessfully, and (3) some are battling energetically and generally victoriously. But there is no such thing as a child of God who is…
Read More“Rightly dividing the Word of Truth” (2 Tim. 2:15)
Mark Minnick And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Second Thessalonians 3:14 Disobedience to Paul’s word by this epistle is grounds for separation from another Christian. But what word is Paul referring to? Does he mean only…
Read MoreA Good Soldier of Jesus Christ (2)
Mark Minnick [From yesterday’s introduction:] It would be hard to find any preachers of the last two centuries any more acquainted with outright warfare for Christ than Charles and his brother John. Their earliest journals are not only almost monotonously replete with references to it, but often the entries nearly spurt blood. Here are samples…
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Mark Minnick We have a full thirty of them in our church’s hymnbook: songs by Charles Wesley. But it would take nearly eight hymnbooks of equal size to hold all the church songs Charles wrote. They amount to over six thousand, ten times those of Isaac Watts. So it’s understandable that we might envision that…
Read MoreA Christian Perspective on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Same Sex Marriage
Mark Minnick Our friend and good brother, Mark Minnick, preached two messages in response to the Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriages last Sunday. He has given us permission to host the audio files on our site. We draw your attention to them with this post and offer the following summary of the ten…
Read MoreBring the Books: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography
Mark Minnick Will anyone ever know how many biographies of Charles Haddon Spurgeon have been issued? Lewis Drummond, who authored the massive Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, lists nearly 40 in his bibliography, including the autobiography that Spurgeon himself started and his wife and secretary, Joseph Harrald, completed.
Read MoreAmerica’s First Foreign Missionary Casualty (2)
Mark Minnick This is part two of two. Part One is here. In Part One we were introduced to Harriett Newell and her Christian testimony as she travelled from America to India in 1812. In the absence of all other friends, the bond to Samuel was especially strengthened. “In one bosom friend I find the…
Read MoreAmerica’s First Foreign Missionary Casualty (1)
Mark Minnick I wish that all believers could experience the immensely enriching benefit that some of us obtain from reading Christian biography. So much of what Hollywood and secular historians portray as the past is just pathetic fabrication. It simply didn’t happen that way. But factual Christian biography that is reverently written opens a pleasurable…
Read MoreInsight into Substantive Preaching (6)
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 (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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