11.04.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
For several months the elders on the Worship Committee have been discussing the addition of wine to our ordinary celebration of the Lord’s Table. The session (our board of elders)...
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Wine in the History of the Church
11.03.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
It is very challenging to reflect upon the role wine may or may not have in Christian worship...Our question is practical: how was wine been used in the life of the Christian church beyond the New Testament era to the present?
Wine In the Story of Redemption
11.02.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
Sometimes it’s difficult to separate details central to the Bible’s story of redemption from details less central. The Bible’s teaching on God, humankind, and Jesus, are critical...
10.14.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
For several months, our church’s Worship Committee and Session (board of elders) have been discussing the addition of wine to our ordinary celebration of the Lord’s Table...
10.01.21 | News | by John Jones
We are pleased to share that our elders have hired Ryan Hamilton to serve as our new Youth Director.
Meeting Old Friends for the First Time
09.30.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
In the fall of 1991, my future mother-in-law gave me my first substantial book having to do with the Christian faith. At the time, I was not an enormous fan of reading, but the book title was more than arresting...
09.16.21 | Missions & Outreach | by John Jones
Today, it is perhaps easier to imagine similarities between own cultural context and that of post-Christian Europe...
09.02.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
Last week (Saturday, in fact) change was imposed upon my family. My eldest has been working from home for the past two months. As I head to my office, he sits down in front of two or three monitors, talking heads appear...
07.22.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I agree that Christians in the West need to make a shift from doing gospel ministry in which others are favorably or neutrally disposed to the church, to a setting in which others are negatively disposed towards the church.
07.15.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
Having spent a decade of pastoring a church in a rented building, setting up chairs (in a suit) is an emotional experience that will always be deep in my heart. ... As everyone knows, the chairs must be set up.
