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!
“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 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...
“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
Five Models for Counseling and Psychology
Dr. Christopher Cone compares and contrasts aspects of mainstream psychology, integrated psychology, Christian psychology, nouthetic, and a fifth option that he suggests better represents a more Biblical approach.
Where Does Prophecy Fit in the Biblical Worldview? (Slides)
Biblical prophecy is often underemphasized. But just how significant a problem is it when we ignore Biblical prophecy? This presentation looks at how prophecy undergirds each area of worldview, and reminds us that if we are to understand what God intends for us, we...
Five Models for Counseling, Viewed From a Biblical Perspective (Slides)
There are several popular models for counseling, including (1) mainstream psychology, (2) integrated psychology, (3) Christian psychology, and (4) nouthetic. This discussion compares and contrasts these various models and concludes that a fifth option is to be...
“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)
New Book Announcement: Priority in Biblical Hermeneutics and Theological Method
Opening at #7 on Amazon's Top 100 Hot New Releases in its category, comes a new book from Dr. Christopher Cone and Exegetica Publishing. Priority in Biblical Hermeneutics and Theological Method is a text designed as a graduate/post-graduate level discussion of...
The Relevance of Biblical Hermeneutics for the Christian Life
How we interpret the Bible matters. In fact, biblical hermeneutics have an incredible relevance for the Christian life. As God’s word brings us a much more detailed knowledge of our Creator (2 Tim 3:16-17, 2 Pet 1:20-21), we learn through this word of our failure (Rom...
Salvation by Works or Grace?
An Open Letter to Pastors in Europe and America
From A Burdened Pastor in the Middle East. Greetings in Christ, We are in a very critical period of time concerning the refugees flooding into your countries. You have a golden opportunity. You either choose it or lose it and lose Europe and America forever. Families...
Personalizing the Gemba Walk
From the Japanese term gemba, referring to “the real place,” the Gemba (or Genba) Walk is a concept applied in several improvement and efficiency models to understand through observation what is really taking place in the place where the work is actually being done,...
An Apology to John MacArthur for an Apparent Misrepresentation on My Part
In a recent debate discussion with IHOP founder Mike Bickle, I focused on the importance of certainty versus uncertainty in the Christian life, and near the end of our discussion I wanted to pose a challenge to Mike regarding his level of certainty in following the...
What is Real Success?
Google the phrase “What is success” and you will get 1.13 billion results. I’d like to examine each of those with you today (not really). Much has been said about success. Everybody seems to want it, but it is surprising how few actually can define it. One dictionary...
Worldview and Three Views on Biblical Ethics (Slides)
Ideas have consequences. This presentation considers (1) basics of worldview and (2) three competing views on Biblical ethics: continuity (believers under the Law for their sanctification), semi-continuity (believers under part of the Law for their sanctification),...
New Book Announcement: Life Beyond the Sun: Worldview and Philosophy Through the Lens of Ecclesiastes, 2nd Edition
Opening at #3, and the #1 paperback on Amazon's Hot New Releases in its category, from Exegetica Publishing is a new book by Dr. Christopher Cone – Life Beyond the Sun: Worldview and Philosophy Through the Lens of Ecclesiastes, 2nd Edition. ISBN#: 978-0998280509...
Three Great Questions of Worldview and a Method for Addressing Them
Five tools, three questions, two challenges, one ultimate source of truth… FIVE INITIAL TOOLS AT OUR DISPOSAL As we seek to discover, we observe that we possess basic tools useful for processing information: reason, the senses, emotion, desire/will, and...