Barry Jones

Husband to @kimsmithjones. Senior Pastor at @IrvingBibleCh. Author of Dwell: Life with God for the World from @ivpress. PhD from @WheatonCollege.

[Barry Jones @barrydjones]

“Ash Wednesday is full of joy.... The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. God is all our joy and in him our dust can become splendor.” — Thomas Merton

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@SamObiWon Thanks, Sam.

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So fun to be back on the Curiously, Kaitlyn podcast!

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In all of our circumstances. @barrydjones

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The King reigns from the tree. The reign of God has indeed come upon us, and its sign is not a golden throne but a wooden cross.

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The ‘secular’ society is not a neutral area into which we can project the Christian message. It is an area already occupied by other gods. We have a battle on our hands. We are dealing with principalities and powers.

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The choice for the church in every age will always be, Will our identity be shaped by Scripture or by our culture—by the biblical story or the cultural story?

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The very heart of the biblical vision for the unity of humankind is that its center is not an imperial power but a slain Lamb.

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

The choice for the church in every age will always be, Will our identity be shaped by Scripture or by our culture—by the biblical story or the cultural story?

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

A church that sees the cross of Jesus as the central event of history can never identify any political order with the reign of God.

[Barry Jones @barrydjones]

So fun to be on the Curiously, Kaitlyn podcast!

[Kaitlyn Schiess @KaitlynSchiess]

An episode with @barrydjones AND I had reason to quote Iris Murdoch?? A dream episode.

https://t.co/NdsJHqZcjz

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@SamObiWon Thanks so much for your encouragement, Sam!

[Barry Jones @barrydjones]

@KaitlynSchiess My whole mood just turned on a dime when I saw this!

[Barry Jones @barrydjones]

@SamObiWon @IrvingBibleCh It was such a fun day! Thanks for your encouragement.

[Barry Jones @barrydjones]

@SamObiWon Thanks, Sam. I appreciate your encouragement!

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

Only half of the pastor’s work is to gather the people together for worship. The other half is to send them back to their daily tasks equipped to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. If we forget this second part, the other can be positively dangerous.

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

A church that sees the cross of Jesus as the central event of history can never identify any political order with the reign of God.

[Barry Jones @barrydjones]

@bobsmietana Yes. But Mark Heard has several of those for me.