Publisher's Synopsis
Looking for guidance on what to look for in your next pastor? Looking for help on how to make best use of a pastor's ministry? How to listen to a message? Looking for counsel on how to preach an ordination message? How to address the congregation at a new pastor's installation? Look no further. This is an ordination sermon that impresses upon both the pastor being ordained and the congregation the weightiness and importance of the preaching of the word of God. Includes the sermon itself, a charge to the pastor, and a charge to the congregation itself as well as McCheyne's Bible reading Calendar, a short biographical sketch of his life and numerous historical footnotes to his time.Editor has added explanatory footnotes of obscure historical references, biographical notes on key persons referred to, in-text citations of biblical references alluded to or quoted. In addition the text has been formatted for easy reading. An invaluable resource and a passionate exposition of 2 Timothy 4:1-2.