Timothy Paul Jones

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Timothy Paul Jones

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Family Ministry: The Simplicity of Family Discipleship

10th April 2019

How does family discipleship happen? The same way that we “disciple” our children in certain sports and certain teams. Read this brief post to find out how to form your children’s souls in the same way you form their preferences in sports.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: baseball, children, children's ministry, church, discipleship, faith talks, family, family discipleship, family ministry, worship

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part Two)

28th November 2017

This research into the history of age-organized ministries in the church is based on an academic paper that I presented to the practical theology section of the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 16, 2017. This post is the second in a three-part series. Click here for Part […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: A Weed in the Church, children, children's ministry, church history, church leadership, family integrated, family integrated church, family integrated ministry, family ministry, history, John Calvin, leadership, Reformation, Reformed, Reformed theology, Scott Brown, youth, youth ministry

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part One)

27th November 2017

When did age-organized ministries for children begin? If you thought children’s classes didn’t begin until the introduction of Sunday School, you have a lot to learn!

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead, Learn, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Weed in the Church, children, children's ministry, church history, church leadership, family integrated, family integrated church, family integrated ministry, family ministry, history, John Calvin, leadership, Reformation, Reformed, Reformed theology, Scott Brown, youth, youth ministry

Family Ministry: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Might Go

22nd May 2017

The first family ministry book I ever read was Family-Based Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries. My first response was to reject family ministry as a preposterous idea in my particular context.  It took two years for the struggles of ministry and the work of the Holy Spirit to change my mind.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured Tagged With: children, children's ministry, church as family, D6, D6 Conferece, family, family as church, family ministry, Family-Based Youth Ministry, family-equipping, family-equipping ministry, history, Mark DeVries, Parenting, Randy Stinson, Ron Hunter, youth ministry

Family Ministry: Remembering Who Your Children Really Are

10th March 2017

Childhood identity theft. It’s a real thing. Thieves steal children’s Social Security numbers and then appropriate their financial identities for personal profit. “Children represent an emerging market for identity thieves who steal their Social Security numbers because they offer clean slates that can be used to commit fraud for years without detection,” one CPA has […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Video Tagged With: childhood, children, identity, identity theft, parenthood, Parenting, parents, theological anthropology

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