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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...
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 | Shepherding | by Eric Mullinax
Why are companies willing to fork out so much money on marketing? Well, there appears to be good reasons! ... Millenia before Madison Avenue marketers were persuading customers to judge by image, wrapping, and covers, we were already judging by...
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...
