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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 | Shepherding | by Jeremiah Hill
At first glance, the results of this report are deeply troubling. Young people today are describing staggering levels of loneliness, living in a world saturated with connectivity but perilously lacking connection.
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...
02.24.21 | Discipleship | by Adam Sanders
You may have recently noticed your social media feeds full of people hash-tagging their Lent participation this past week – what they are fasting from, receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday, joking about giving up talking to their mother-in-law...
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...
Lent: Dried Out in the Wilderness
02.18.21 | Shepherding | by Jake Bennett
Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40-day season known as Lent. Growing up in the church, this seemed like a foreign holiday; I didn’t understand it. My childhood church did not recognize it, and the only ones who observed it...
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...
