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04.20.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
For several years I have been recommending Greg Gilbert’s little book, What is the Gospel? This is a good resource for slowly unpacking the elements of the gospel (if we can say it that way).
04.16.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I enjoy listening to sermons...I also enjoy podcasts that devote time to focus on books of the Bible or passages ... Here are my top six.
04.15.21 | Shepherding | by John Jones
I don’t particularly care for numbers, but I’d like to share a few, especially since they connect with an application. So, out of character for me, I thought I would share some numbers that may help to give a picture our church body, a numeric...
04.15.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I’d like to think that everyone has read a tall stack of books during the pandemic (thus far). I have read several books this past year. Several. But not everyone does. This is not a problem per se...
What Do Even the Critics Agree On?
04.13.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Mark Bauerlein at First Things interviews Justin Bass in the talk, Mere Historical Christianity. Dr. Bass is...
04.09.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
I have a son whose answer to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up,” was simply, I want to be a worker. These words were spoken...
Another Meditation on the Life of David
04.08.21 | Shepherding | by Dan Steere
David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock in Bethlehem. ~ 1 Samuel 17.15 It must have been very difficult for the youngest son, who had...
04.08.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Pediatrician, Dr. Robert Hamilton, founder of Pacific Ocean Pediatrics in Santa Monica, California, hosts a winsome podcast in which he...
How (Difficult) Conversations Work
04.06.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
Professor Darrell Bock writes, “Difficult conversations don’t have to be things to fight through; they may become moments where iron really does sharpen...
04.02.21 | Coffee Stained Notebook | by John Jones
It’s Good Friday. I suspect that many of my neighbors (and yours) have no idea. I may be wrong. Was there a time when you could greet...
