03.04.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I always appreciate the writing ministry of Kevin DeYoung of Christ Covenant Church. In case you missed the Feb. 22 issue of ByFaith Magazine, he considers the question, “Should the Church Really...
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A Personal Plan for Personal Prayer
03.02.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
There are numerous ways to approach daily prayer. I’ll share mine below. First of all, ought prayer be a daily habit at all? I think the Scriptural evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of daily prayer. Prayer can...
02.26.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
None of us think about listening to a sermon as tasting a sermon, do we? I certainly do not. I had never even seen the odd expression, “sermon taster,” before reading...
02.25.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Aristotle calls rhetoric the “available means of persuasion.” Is persuasion at the pulpit an appropriate goal for the preacher? Perhaps persuasion conflicts with 1 Corinthians 2.1-5? “And I, when...
02.23.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Bill Mounce is the founder and president of BiblicalTraining.org. He is also a strange mix of blessing and bane to anyone who has studied koine Greek. Dr. Mounce is a brilliant Greek...
Reflections of a College Chaplain
02.19.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I think of the Center of Pastor Theologians as a Brain Trust of Practical Theology for a Complex World. This is not what they call themselves. Their mission is to “equip pastors to be theologians for today’s...
Mercy (of Shakespearean scale)
02.18.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I spent a year at a large university studying the works of Shakespeare without ever wondering if Shakespeare was a Christian or not. At least, I don’t recall ever being challenged by the notion. It must be that I...
02.16.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Philip Graham Ryken, by his own admission, is not a biblical scholar. He was invited, though, to speak on the podcast, Exegetically Speaking, on the topic of The Welfare of the City. The talk is very short...
02.12.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I have not read Jennie Pollock’s book, Only If: Finding Contentment in the Face of Lack and Longing. Ben Virgo over at Christian Heritage London conducts this wonderful interview with...
02.11.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Last month, one of our elders shared with me a post about Pastor Robert G. Raymond (1915-1990). Dr. Rayburn was a very significant hero of American Presbyterianism. You can read...
