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Hywel R. Jones

Hywel R. Jones

Hywel Jones is Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology at Westminster Seminary California. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1963 and has ministered in several pastorates in Wales and England. Hywel and his wife, Nansi, have been married for more than 50 years. They are blessed with three children and five granddaughters. 

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Feasting in a Fast-Food World

Assurance Is Knowledge

(PART SIX OF A SIX-PART SERIES) We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the […]

3 Things We Often Forget When We Pray

3 Things We Often Forget When We Pray

Prayer is a feature of all world religions and also those of a more homespun variety. This is because human beings are made in the image of God and…

The Mental Gaze

Assurance in Prayer

(PART FIVE OF A SIX-PART SERIES) We are delighted that Dr. Jones has agreed to expand this current study of 1 John from four parts to six, helping us to dig even deeper into this Epistle for the remainder of 2020. In his First Epistle, the apostle John drew an identikit portrait of the […]

Between Defiance and Despair

“In Him Is No Darkness at All”

(PART FOUR OF A FOUR-PART SERIES) You have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. (1 John 2:20–21) The apostle John’s declaration here, which he […]

Introducing Our New Executive Editor

“I Am Writing to You, Little Children”

(PART THREE OF A FOUR-PART SERIES) I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. (1 John 5:13) Although John only disclosed the main purpose of his first letter toward its conclusion, it informed all that he wrote. […]

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