Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.9.10 in Books, Sermons
Notes taken from Paul’s Certainties by J. D. Jones. Chapter 3 contains the sermon called “The Son of Man” based on Jesus’ question in Matthew 16:13, “Who do men say the Son of Man is?” Dr. Jones explains what it means to call Jesus the “Son of man.” “We are perhaps more familiar with difficulties…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.8.10 in Books, Sermons
Notes taken from Chapter 2 of Paul’s Certainties by J. D. Jones. This chapter contains the sermon “The Unaccountable Man” The chapter title refers to that moment in Christ’s ministry when he returned to his hometown and the people began to wonder, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.7.10 in Books, Sermons
Notes taken from Chapter 1 of Paul’s Certainties by J. D. Jones. The book takes its name from this sermon. I think I could summarize the message this way: “There many things we don’t know and some things we do know. The things we do know are so certain that they give us strength to bear those things we do know.” “The &r…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.6.10 in Books, Pastors, Sermons
In 1898 a young man named J. D. Jones became the pastor of the Richmond Hill Congregational Church in Bournemouth, a popular English seaside resort. The church building is located near the Central Square so that whoever preached there could draw people from all directions. That’s what J. D. Jones did for 40 years. He was called “the man…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.3.10 in Books
When we arrived at the Clarion Hotel near the Portland airport around 11 PM last night, Clay Crosse said, “We need to get a picture.” So while Janet Kerns checked us in, Lisa Beedy took our picture for Clay’s page of pictures with, as he said, “friends, famous, and the semi-famous.” He’s got pictures of himself w…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.4.10 in Bible Study, Books
A few months ago I got a call from Broadman and Holman Publishers asking if they could use my book on Elijah as part of their Masterwork adult Sunday School curriculum. I told them it was fine with me, and that was the last I heard of it until a few days ago when I got an email from a pastor saying that his church was going to be going through the …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.31.10 in Books
Recently two authors have written important books with the word “radical” in their titles. I was struck by this seeming coincidence as I read them more or less together. The first book is The Radical Disciple by John Stott. For many years he served as rector of All Souls Church in London. There under God he built a thriving church in th…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.27.10 in Books, Foreign Language Translations
We have just added a new section of foreign language translations to our website. Derek Taylor, our KBM webmaster, has been working to add all the foreign language translations of my books that we can find. We started on this project by going through a box in my closet filled with translations sent to me by different publishers over the last 15 yea…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.21.10 in Books, Devotional, Prayer
Yesterday Ron Thweatt reprinted a prayer called “A Disciple’s Renewal,” taken from the fine book Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan prayers. Almost 20 years ago Skip Olson gave me a copy of the book, and though it became dog-eared and worn and the binding began to fall apart, I taped it up and still have my original copy. I…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.13.10 in Books, Pastors
It’s a little-known and rarely discussed secret that pastors sometimes struggle with depression. There are many reasons why we prefer not to deal with this problem openly. Because we look to our pastors as spiritual leaders, it’s hard to think of them wrestling with fear, discouragement, doubt and depression. And pastors feel the pressu…
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