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Mark Jones

Mark Jones is the senior minister of Faith Vancouver Presbyterian Church and author of Knowing Christ.

Arenas Are Cathedrals: What Sports Reveal About Worship

Arenas Are Cathedrals

What Sports Reveal About Worship

Sports reveal that we are worshiping beings, created with an insatiable desire to see glory. How can Christians take care that enjoying sports does not rival worshiping God?

Fit for Office: How Some Exercise Extends Ministry

Fit for Office

How Some Exercise Extends Ministry

Pastors have great reasons to commit to some regular exercise. Not only will it likely extend the duration of your ministry, but it will give you the energy you need to serve well today.

The Existence and Attributes of God: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

The Existence and Attributes of God

A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

In the seventeenth century, Puritan Stephen Charnock opened up a big world with an even bigger God in a series of messages that became a Christian classic.

Does Jesus Still Sympathize with Sinners? The Compassion of the Risen Christ

Does Jesus Still Sympathize with Sinners?

The Compassion of the Risen Christ

The risen Christ still feels deep compassion for his tempted and tried people, but he sympathizes without suffering; he is moved without misery.

Does God Actually Get Angry? Why He Reveals Himself in Human Terms

Does God Actually Get Angry?

Why He Reveals Himself in Human Terms

Is God eternally unchangeable in his being, or does he, like humans, have the capacity to change? Can God really experience distress or learn something new?

The One-Man Revelation of God: Why We Worship ‘the Word’

The One-Man Revelation of God

Why We Worship ‘the Word’

Why does John begin with Jesus as “the Word”? What does he mean when he gives him that title?

The Only Certain Hope on Earth

The Only Certain Hope on Earth

We know that Christian hope is different from the world’s, but what exactly makes it any different?

No One Loved Himself Like Jesus

No One Loved Himself Like Jesus

No human has ever truly loved himself as well as Jesus. The solution to the problem of self-love is the self-love of Jesus.

Christ Confusion: Six Common Errors About Jesus

Christ Confusion

Six Common Errors About Jesus

We know God to the degree that we know Jesus. And much of our knowledge of Jesus concerns his humanity, his divinity, and how the two come together.

The Blessed and Blessing God: How We Experience Divine Happiness

The Blessed and Blessing God

How We Experience Divine Happiness

God’s blessedness is his eternal, unchanging happiness in himself. Our blessedness is coming to share in his joy.

Gold, Frankincense, and Bliss: What Wise Men Want Most

Gold, Frankincense, and Bliss

What Wise Men Want Most

We do not know much about the magi who visited Jesus in Bethlehem, but their surprising joy is an invitation (and a warning) to us all.

Remember the Body: The Pastor and His Exercise

Remember the Body

The Pastor and His Exercise

Pastors, hear Paul when he says that physical activity is of some value. We must not confine ourselves to our books and forget our bodies.

Why Jesus Needed the Holy Spirit

Why Jesus Needed the Holy Spirit

Christ performed his miracles through the power of the Holy Spirit, not immediately by his own divine power.

Pray to Receive Your Reward: Five Lessons from Jesus’s Prayer Life

Pray to Receive Your Reward

Five Lessons from Jesus’s Prayer Life

If you want to grow and thrive in prayer, spend more time looking at and imitating the remarkable prayer life of Jesus.

When a Loved One Goes Home to Jesus

When a Loved One Goes Home to Jesus

When a believing loved one dies, we always grieve with hope. We may have lost them for now, but they have gained everything.

What If I Don’t Want to Pray?

What If I Don’t Want to Pray?

We’ve all experienced it: the prayer rut. What should you do when you don’t want to pray? Here are three ways to help you enjoy, not dread, your prayer time.

The Most Unlikely Believer in the Bible

The Most Unlikely Believer in the Bible

Who is the most unlikely person to believe in your life? You might think differently about them after reading about this man.

Do Some Christians Pray with More Power?

Do Some Christians Pray with More Power?

What effect does holiness have on our prayers? God’s answer should inspire fresh resolve for righteousness before him.

God Thinks More of Your Obedience Than You Do

God Thinks More of Your Obedience Than You Do

Our loving Father accepts less — a lot less — than perfection from us. Think small beginnings.

Why God Must Let His People into Heaven

Why God Must Let His People into Heaven

Three Reasons

All Christians desire to be in heaven, but often we’re unsure why we can have confidence of entering heaven.

God Was Placed in a Womb

God Was Placed in a Womb

Why Abortion Is So Grievous

Abortion is so wrong because it robs God of his highest prerogative in this world: a creature made in the image of Christ who worships God by the Spirit.

God Invites You into His Happiness

God Invites You into His Happiness

We are only as happy, or miserable, as the one we serve. God sent his Son to make us like himself — blessed, happy, content, fulfilled, joyful.

Christ’s Glory Makes Knowing God Possible

Christ’s Glory Makes Knowing God Possible

When we discuss God’s glory there are basically two ways we can speak. First, God’s essential glory: the sum of his attributes makes him the “God of glory” (Acts 7:2). His glory is the “sparkling of the deity.” God’s life…

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