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03.25.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Many thanks to Russell St. John at World Magazine for some skilled reporting. He exposes a tendency behind Barna researchers in the way they frame their questions. In Questioning the Survey, St. John asks us...
03.23.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Progressive sanctification teaches that our Christian growth and maturity take place over time, progressively. Sometimes this growth is loud (i.e. very evident) and sometimes this growth is almost crickets (i.e. barely...
03.20.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
At church please pick up a copy of our Holy Week Reading Guide. This guide has been prepared to help you follow the events of the last week of Jesus before His death on the cross. The week begins Saturday evening when Jesus and His disciples...
03.19.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Just having Dr. Rob Rayburn with us on Sunday has reminded me to share one of my favorite articles of his. Way back in 2003 he wrote a helpful article in Covenant Magazine of Covenant Theological...
The World Our Children Will Inhabit
03.18.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
At Crossway Books, there is a new interview with Rebecca McLaughlin, who is a gifted theologian and speaker. She wrote Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion, which...
03.16.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
John Betjeman (1906-1984) was a courageous poet, courageous for the right reasons. Many poets are courageous for speaking to controversial social issues, or proposing counter-cultural ways of...
03.12.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
What is wokeness or the woke church? The following are recommended starting-points that have been helpful to me. Writing in 2018, which seems ages ago, Thabiti Anyabwile of Anacostia...
03.11.21 | Discipleship | by Todd Gaither
“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” (1 Corinthians 16.13) This sentiment doesn’t win any awards in our culture today. As a matter of fact, popular culture is seemingly more interested in dismantling...
03.11.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Melvyn Bragg is a noted English broadcaster, author of both fiction and non-fiction, member of the House of Lords, university chancellor, and great lover of the KJV. He was also one of the few working-class kids...
03.09.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
In his broken English, Nuno Espírito Santo, coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (yes, that kind of football), speaks from his heart to Johnny Philips about caring for his adopted...
