J D Jones: 57 books

I am not going to discuss in any detail the beautiful story of the calling of the first disciples—full of instruction and inspiration though it is. My interest just now is not in the men who were called, but in the Man who called them; not in Andrew or John or James or even in Peter, but in Jesus....

“A root out of a dry ground”! What idea does this figure suggest to you? It suggests to me the idea of unexpectedness, unaccountableness, miraculousness. A “dry ground”—that is not exactly the kind of place we expect a root to shoot out from. A “dry ground”—that is not exactly the...

Was Saul’s conversion as sudden as it seemed? Of course, to all outward appearance nothing could have been more sudden or unexpected. It was so sudden that people could not believe that it had really taken place. They could not believe that the man who left Jerusalem to persecute any Christians...

A word as to the exact chronological position of this journey to Jerusalem. Mark’s is, as you all know, the briefest of the Gospels, and we are not to conclude that incidents that follow one another in the narrative necessarily came immediately the one after the other. For the sequence of events,...

This is a Psalm to which we instinctively turn when Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday comes round—for it celebrates men’s joy in the teeming fruitfulness of the earth. But if you will read the Psalm carefully you will see that there is more in it than praise for the blessing of a bountiful harvest....

The commentators tell us that the phrase “the Gospel of Jesus Christ” may mean one of two things. (a) It may mean the Gospel which Jesus Christ Preached. (b) It may mean also the Gospel of which Jesus Christ is the subject.   It is in this latter sense Mark uses the phrase here....

ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY QUOTED VERSES IN THE WHOLE OF THE BIBLE IS THAT VERSE IN WHICH THE PROPHET ISAIAH SPEAKS OF THE RESULTS OF “WAITING UPON GOD.” “THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD,” HE SAYS, “SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH.”   And the proof he gives that the people who thus...

I do not know whether it is legitimate to make comparisons between the miracles. Dr. Plummer says it is not. He says that to the philosophic believer in miracles all genuine miracles are alike. “When natural causes are inadequate, and a supernatural cause is admitted, all degrees of difficulty are...

I. THE SHEPHERD PSALM The King of Love my Shepherd is, Whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am His And He is mine for ever. Where streams of living water flow My ransomed soul He leadeth, And, where the verdant pastures grow, With food celestial feedeth. Perverse and foolish oft I strayed, But...

We live in a skeptical age. People—especially young people—express doubts about Christian faith. In this thoughtful eight week study Bishop Scott J. Jones, author of The Wesleyan Way, partners with his son Rev. Arthur Jones, to address hard questions that all of us face when considering faith,...

The use of hyperthermia in radiation oncology is well established. Many publications cover the whole field of possibilities and problems of this therapeutic modality. The new development of interstitial and intracavitary hyperthermia, however, is not well known: there are only a few relevant publications...

The Bible was central to John Wesley’s faith and the Christian movement he founded. In Scripture and the Wesleyan Way, you will discover a Wesleyan approach to the Bible and the Christian life through a Bible study using Wesley’s own words. In this study, authors Scott and Arthur Jones...

The Bible was central to John Wesley’s faith and the Christian movement he founded. In Scripture and the Wesleyan Way, you will discover a Wesleyan approach to the Bible and the Christian life through a Bible study using Wesley’s own words. In this study, authors Scott and Arthur Jones...

We live in a skeptical age. People—especially young people—express doubts about Christian faith. In this thoughtful eight week study Bishop Scott Jones, author of The Wesleyan Way, partners with his son Rev. Arthur Jones, to address hard questions that all of us face when considering faith, religion,...