What is Your Identity – 1 John 4:7-21
Dr. Christopher Cone addresses the current identity crises related to race, gender identity, and cultural peer pressure, suggesting that 1 John 4:7-21 provides the solution.
Renovation Podcast Episode 7 – “The Pursuit of Truth”
Dr. Christopher Cone and John Oglesby explore practical aspects of the Christian life – wrestling with tough theological issues and talking about why the questions and answers are relevant. Cone and Oglesby challenge themselves and their listeners to enjoy the...
California Bill AB-2943 Harms Civil Rights of LGBT Community, Legislates: “Questionable” Science is Fraud
California Bill AB-2943 is a remarkable piece of legislation, in that it legislates “questionable” science as fraud. AB-2943 affirms LGBT identity as natural: “(a) Contemporary science recognizes that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender is part of the natural...
“The most effective leadership, management, and efficiency models share traits common with each other, and traits that are ultimately traceable to the pages of the Bible. While these models are often not intentionally rooted in Biblical concepts by those that promote the models, the models illustrate how applying Biblical principles can set a trajectory of success in enterprise and in life. Led By a Lion is designed to introduce some of these leadership, management, and efficiency models, but goes a step further in identifying the Biblical genesis of many of the core traits that fuel the success of these models.”
Renovation Podcast Episode 6 – “Life for the Glory of God”
Dr. Christopher Cone and John Oglesby explore practical aspects of the Christian life – wrestling with tough theological issues and talking about why the questions and answers are relevant. Cone and Oglesby challenge themselves and their listeners to enjoy the...
Overcoming Obstacles in Organizational Development (Slides)
Every organization faces three major obstacles to development: the potential for mission drift, difficulty in finding paths to mission fulfillment, and leadership challenges in developing people. This presentation, delivered to the ANAM 2018 National Forum, addresses...
Communicating Good News to Millennials and iGens (Slides)
Millennials (Generation Y) and iGens (Generation Z) have some positive similarities to which we can appeal in communicating the good news of Jesus Christ. If we don't recognize some of those traits and follow Peter's and Paul's examples of understanding the culture,...
“This approach has the advantage of seeking to view all knowledge through the lens of Scripture, and to subject all knowledge to the authority of Scripture. It encourages science and research within the field of psychology. It offers a Biblical balance of description and prescription. Of course, if the Bible is unreliable, then the refractive power of Scripture is distortive rather than corrective, but the epistemological premise of this approach is that God’s word is authoritative and sufficient for our understanding, for our equipping, and for our practice. There are many extra-biblical resources that we can employ, but in seeking out how and when to do that, we mustn’t lose sight of the one reliable constant that God has provided for us – the Bible.” –Chapter 9
Why and How I Write (Slides)
Asked to answer the two questions of why and how I write, this presentation looks at Biblical motivation, strategic reasons, and practical methods for developing writing habits and skills. [gview...
Renovation Podcast Episode 5
Dr. Christopher Cone and John Oglesby explore practical aspects of the Christian life – wrestling with tough theological issues and talking about why the questions and answers are relevant. Cone and Oglesby challenge themselves and their listeners to enjoy the...
Six Biblical Keys for Counseling (Slides)
At the Jansen Bible Conference in Jansen, Nebraska, Dr. Cone discusses some foundational principles of Biblical counseling, and considers key questions like what authority the Bible has, whether the Bible is enough, the components of personhood, how a person grows,...
“The Green Tree is an exceptional work…provides a vital tool for every Bible interpreter…Just as the root system is the foundation of a tree and directly impacts the health of a tree, hermeneutic method is at the root of one’s worldview. This illustration demonstrates that the hermeneutic method that an interpreter of the Bible employs will significantly affect the outcome. The tree will either be healthy, or it will not be healthy…The authors provide a unique examination of Revelation, Genesis, and Job that demonstrates that the LGH hermeneutic is derived from within Scripture, something that other hermeneutical methods fail to demonstrate. This is perhaps the most crucial principle demonstrated in The Green Tree, and it effectively demonstrates that the LGH hermeneutic is also the Biblical hermeneutic.” – Andrew Friend (Amazon Review)
Renovation Podcast Episode 3
Dr. Christopher Cone and John Oglesby explore practical aspects of the Christian life – wrestling with tough theological issues and talking about why the questions and answers are relevant. Cone and Oglesby challenge themselves and their listeners to enjoy the...
#MeToo Invites Us To Consider More Than Just Behavior
The #MeToo movement brought needed light to the darkness of sexual abuse and assault, and underscored a dark principle of human nature: people will often try to get away with whatever they think they can. The public unveiling of sexual selfishness and other evils that...
What is God’s Will for My Life?
What is God's will for my life? The answer isn't as complicated as you might think. Part if it has to do with recognizing whose life it actually is!
Renovation Podcast Episode 2 – “Spring Break and the Glory of God”
Dr. Christopher Cone and John Oglesby explore practical aspects of the Christian life – wrestling with tough theological issues and talking about why the questions and answers are relevant. Cone and Oglesby challenge themselves and their listeners to enjoy the...
Renovation Podcast Episode 1
Dr. Christopher Cone and John Oglesby explore practical aspects of the Christian life – wrestling with tough theological issues and talking about why the questions and answers are relevant. Cone and Oglesby challenge themselves and their listeners to enjoy the...
Matthew 5-7: Two Kinds of Righteousness (Slides)
In the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) Jesus announces to His listeners that the coming kingdom would have rewards. He explains that no one can enter that kingdom without having the right kind of righteousness, and contrasts real righteousness (which brings eternal...
Why I Believe the Bible
Dr. Cone addresses students at Calvary University on some basic principles of the Bible's credibility, and how it all comes back to the issue of the identity of Jesus.
Spanish translation of Integrating Exegesis and Exposition now available
Integrating Exegesis and Exposition: Biblical Communication for Transformative Learning is now available from Exegetica Publishing in Spanish. The English handbook on preaching and teaching was first published in 2015, and has now been translated (by Ruben de Rus)...
The Bible Unleashed (Slides)
For much of this week, I have had the incredible privilege of spending time with some of the most amazing young people at the 2017 IFCA National Youth Convention (held at Taylor University's fantastic campus in Indiana). Attending are several hundred junior and high...
You Owe Me Three Minutes (Commencement Speech 2017, Blue Ridge Christian School)
You Owe Me Three Minutes Delivered to the 2017 Graduating Class of Blue Ridge Christian School Superintendent Reynolds, school board, faculty and administration, friends, family, and men and women of the graduating class of 2017. It is my honor to be with you...