Posts by Mark Minnick
First Partaker: The Secret of Power (3)
Mark Minnick Part One here, Part Two here. This article is an edited version of Alexander MacLaren’s sermon, “The Secret of Power.” The sermon made a remarkable impression on the men who first heard it. We offer it as an encouragement to Christians beginning a new year of ministry for the Lord. ~~~ This message…
Read MoreFirst Partaker: The Secret of Power (2)
Mark Minnick Part One is available here. This article is an edited version of Alexander MacLaren’s sermon, “The Secret of Power.” The sermon made a remarkable impression on the men who first heard it. We offer it as an encouragement to Christians beginning a new year of ministry for the Lord. ~~~ This message to…
Read MoreFirst Partaker: The Secret of Power (1)
Mark Minnick Lying here beside me is a small volume entitled The Crisis of Missions by A. T. Pierson. My copy was personally autographed by Pierson and presented to Dr. Alexander Maclaren during the World Missionary Conference held in London in May of 1888. I enjoy having it in my hands and thinking of these…
Read MoreRising Above Familiarity with the Sublime (2)
Mark Minnick (This is Part Two – Part One is Here) Part One introduced the subject of over-familiarity with the Bible as a hindrance to profitable Bible reading in personal devotions. Dr. Minnick offers notes on a sermon preached by Thomas Watson as a guide to keeping our devotions fresh and our heart warm in…
Read MoreRising Above Familiarity with the Sublime
Mark Minnick (Part One) Early morning . . . the warm glow of the lamp falls on the opened Bible in my lap. Steam curls up invitingly from the mug in my hand. It’s the quietest it will be all day, and something deep in my spirit reaches out expectantly toward these treasured moments with…
Read MoreYou Get Out and Stand in the Rain
Mark Minnick Our homiletics professor caught everyone offguard with his question: “What would you do if you had been invited to speak at a country church and upon arriving early found that no one was there yet except one young woman who was standing outside the locked building in the rain?” Then he sharpened the…
Read MoreBring … the Books: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography
by 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. As I write this, the four large…
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Biblical Righteousness
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • March/April 1999. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The theme of the Book of Romans is bound up with the dynamic concept of “righteousness” (first mentioned in 1:17). The Greek word, or one of its derivatives (such as righteous, justify, or justification), occurs 66…
Read MoreThe Christian in Complete Armor
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2010. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. One of the saddest facts about today’s Christians is that they are unacquainted with so many older but valuable writers. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. You could almost…
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Christian Liberty Texts
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. This isn’t about some one text but about a category of them — those that deal with what we tend to call “doubtful things.” Passages such as Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8 through 10, and…
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