Posts Tagged ‘Pastoral Ministry’
What a Pastor Wants from the Music Ministry
Danny Sweatt Music in the church is often seen as either an end in itself or as merely a means to an end. Some people, particularly musicians, consider music the most important component of a church service. The modern, contemporary movement certainly seems to encourage that viewpoint, in practice if not in creed. It is…
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 More