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General Assembly Is Almost Here
06.10.21 | Shepherding | by Jake Bennett
This year, Pastor Jones and I will be participating in General Assembly. I am sharing this with you to encourage you in three ways. Please pray. Please pray for our meeting. As the author of Hebrews 13 writes, the elders of our denomination need...
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...
05.20.21 | Discipleship | by Kent Brown
Within the American protestant Church most denominations are silent on Pentecost and have yielded the day to the Charismatics. As a result, definitions and descriptions of the day and its meaning are dominated by the Charismatics and these have...
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.
05.18.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
In perusing my database to re-read some of my favorite John Betjeman poems, one in particular stood out to me: "Variation on a Theme by Newbolt." It struck my attention because of a recent midweek talk delivered by William Taylor.
