As some of you know, I have developed a healthy obsession with Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) over the last year. Today as I was reading Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, the following paragraph struck me as a succinct summary of Edwards’ contribution to Christian thought:
Edwards’s efforts to think in comprehensive terms about the [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Edwards and God-Centered Knowledge
Posted in Academia, Church History, Edwards on June 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Latinus?
Posted in Academia on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
One of my many summertime projects is to begin teaching myself Latin. I had two years of this language in high school, but with the exception of a few vocabulary words, I have regrettably forgotten much of what I learned. You know you’re a dork when you get pumped about studying a language which you will [...]
Vacation at Daytona Beach
Posted in Personal on June 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are some pictures from the Jones Family vacation to Daytona Beach, Florida.
Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse
My father-in-law, Jim, and myself fishing.
Janel and my mother-in-law, Gwen, reeling in a king mackerel.
The day’s catch!
Some Presbyterian Humor-No.2
Posted in Culture, Humor on June 9, 2007 | No Comments »
As promised, here is the second installment of the TR vs. BR list.
You Might Be a Barely Reformed Pastor If…
1. You changed the name of your church from Knox Memorial Reformed Presbyterian to Grace Community Fellowship.
2. You’ve ever seriously considered going to Pensacola or Toronto to bring back the fire.
3. You think that what the [...]
Some Presbyterian Humor-No.1
Posted in Culture, Humor on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I am well aware that most who read this blog are Baptists, broad evangelicals, etc. This post and the one which I will post soon are a bit of an inside joke in Presbyterian/Reformed circles, but I hope that some of this will carry through. For the benefit of the uninitiated, there is a running [...]
On Vacation
Posted in Personal on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Since I finished the semester last Wednesday, things have been quite slow. I have often commented on this blog and in other venues that it seems that the more time I have, the less that gets accomplished. Basically, I have been kissing my wife as she walks out the door to make all the money [...]
