Sex, Power, and Money: Be Careful Who Owns You
“If you want to know who rules over you, find out who you are not allowed to criticize” – Voltaire If the three sisters of grace are faith, hope, and…
Mark Jones
Dr. Jones is Pastor of Faith Vancouver Church (PCA) in Vancouver, Canada and a specialist in post-Reformation Reformed theology.
The Westminster Assembly: A Parachurch?
The response to my piece on the Ligonier statement was interesting. So far I haven’t seen any critical engagement with the content of my criticisms, though many have asked why I…
Reviewing Ligonier’s Christology Statement
Ligonier Ministries have produced a Creed, as well as Affirmations and Denials, with a focus on Christology – a “Christology Statement”. While I wonder what possible ecclesiastical authority a Creed…
Can God’s Love for Us (and Christ) Increase?
Likeness is the ground of delight; God loves himself for his own holiness, and they are best loved and liked that are most holy. – Manton Can God’s love for…
Airing Dirty Church Laundry
Most pastoral situations involving sin are quite complex. For example, when someone tells me about a person who got a divorce and then they proceed to ask me whether I…
Spoiled for Riches
I’m off to South Africa to give a series of lectures in Cape Town at a new seminary that has been started in Hout Bay. This “township” (Imizamo Yethu) is…
A Name or a No-name?
I’m currently editing a book with Michael Haykin on intra-Reformed debates in the Long Eighteenth Century (1688 to 1815). It is a sort of companion to this book, and part…
Great Scott: Thomas Boston’s Orthodoxy (and mine?)
If I, or an angel from heaven, should criticize the Marrow or the Marrow Men, let us be anathema. Imagine reading my post yesterday and coming to the following conclusions:…
The Marrow: Some Questions
I believe the Marrow of Modern Divinity will receive some more attention in 2016 due to the publication of Sinclair Ferguson’s new book. I have just finished it and in the book, Ferguson…
More Goodness Showed To Us Than to Christ
Christians affirm that God is good, but just how good is God? We can speak of him being “infinitely good” but that still doesn’t help the person in the pew…