07.08.21 | News | by John Jones
Thank you for sending me to our General Assembly meeting in St. Louis...I wanted to share with you a few of my own impressions, even as Assembly summaries will be published by many in the coming days.
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06.24.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
Next week we will join hundreds of other PCA elders at our denomination’s 48th annual business meeting. It is an honor and delight to be denominated with the PCA...
06.17.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Yes, I listen to a lot of sermons. And yes, I want to use my sermon-listening time well. I’m often asked, “Whose preaching do you like?”
Graphical History of Presbyterians
06.08.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Do you want to see a quick history of the PCA? Are you sure?
06.04.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I share this sermon partly because Kruger is not afraid to addresses our calling to submit to those in authority after what has been a tense standoff between congregations and local officials.
New Book on the Free Church of Scotland
05.27.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
What a coincidence: I am reading about the Free Church of Scotland because an organization I am studying a PCA cooperative called the UK Partnership, which is a partnership of US churches helping assist a church planting movement within the UK...
05.27.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
Greeting the new with welcoming arms is not for everyone. Ours is an era similar to the Athens that greeted Paul, a city of “nothing except telling or hearing something new.” (Acts 17.21) Here is the clarion call of every technology company today...
05.25.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
In the vein of summer reading, folks at The Imaginative Conservative have published the first summer reading list I’ve seen thus far. Well, for adults. Why are summer...
A Dickensian Take on Sociology
05.21.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Humans are not defined by scientists, and human relationships are not merely social transactions. This is truncated humanity ... There is more going on, which is why God’s revealed-will in Scripture is the key to knowing what it means to be a...
Baptists and the Thousand-Year Reign
05.20.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Michael Lawrence is pastor of Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon. Lately, he has been preaching through Revelation and I wanted to highlight his excellent sermon on Revelation 20: The Reign of the Saints.
