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Mark Jones

Dr. Jones is Pastor of Faith Vancouver Church (PCA) in Vancouver, Canada and a specialist in post-Reformation Reformed theology.
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A Sidebar

Roger Olson is reviewing Oliver Crisp’s new book, Deviant Calvinism. I plan to do some interacting with Crisp’s book in the new year. The Reformed tradition is diverse, but there…

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Undervaluing Christ’s Obedience?

We must be careful not to speak flippantly about Christ’s obedience. The nature, quality, and difficulty of what he actually went through in order to save us will always be…

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Heaven Kissed Earth: The Incarnation

What is the incarnation? It is the kissing of heaven and earth.  To borrow a phrase from Thomas Goodwin, when the Son became flesh, “Heaven and Earth met and kissed…

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Theistic Evolution

After discussing the tensions among evolutionists concerning the precise mechanism of evolution, I thought it might be good to address the underlying metaphysical assumptions of words that are used in the academy,…

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Embracing Evolution: But Which Model?

Contrary to popular opinion, Charles Darwin did not invent the theory of biological evolution. But his famous work, The Origin of Species, certainly gave impetus to an idea that would…

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Ant Farm 101

Sitting in the Heathrow airport en route to Johannesburg to lecture Seminary students, I thought it might be good to disclose my vision for a course at Seminary that, I…

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Weak on Holiness

A recent post on Reformation21 was removed by the author. But thanks be to the Aquila “Report” (quotes mine), republication is truly well and alive.  The author on the Aquila…

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A Minister and His Flock

In my mind, the only person fully equipped to be a mega-church pastor is Christ, who knows all of his sheep by name. He alone, by his Spirit, can minister…