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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...
Church Planting During a Pandemic
02.09.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
How about beginning the month of February with a bit of heart-warming joy! Take a look at Chattanooga’s church-planting scene (is it a scene?) through the eyes of Pastor Benjie Slaton...
Children and Corporate Worship
02.05.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Not just moms and dads, but everyone who notices Little Theologians Sunday morning at CPC, I want to commend Jared Kennedy’s thoughts on children in worship (published at Credo Magazine). He asks a poignant...
02.04.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
How are you processing the things you’ve witnessed about your own hearts? I don’t think this is an easy philosophical and emotional challenge.
A Better Way to Read Biblical Prophecy
02.04.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Paul House is a professor of Old Testament at Beeson Divinity School at Samford University in Birmingham (faculty page). He is an excellent commentator on the OT prophets and his Old Testament Survey has become a standard for...
02.02.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Multiple tornadoes swept through (and swept away much of) our East Brainerd community. This happened the evening of Easter Sunday, 2020. As best as they could, the deacons of our church mobilized the Mercy Committee to not...
01.29.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I have made it a pet project, so to speak, of collecting quotes, biblical passages, and various resources about depression and despair that I think may be relevant to the Christian life. Maybe...
01.28.21 | Shepherding | by Dan Steere
During this enforced break from overseas travel, I have been writing some thoughts from the life of David for the encouragement of our Ghanaian brethren. Perhaps we all could use some encouragement to look beyond our current circumstances to see...
01.28.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
The role of a theologian in addressing the challenges of contemporary culture is often called Public Theology. In what way is it appropriate for a pastor-scholar to speak to ethical concerns in the life of the public square? As Owen Strachan...
01.26.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
CSN is a miscellany from John’s interdisciplinary reading and listening intake. The notebook is sometimes theological. Sometimes cultural. Sometimes devotional.
