• Timothy Paul Jones is professor of family ministry and apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; he also serves as a pastor at Sojourn Community Church. Jones has authored or edited more than a dozen books in the fields of apologetics and family ministry. His passion is to equip churches and parents with the tools they need to instill resilient faith in their children.

The Simplicity of Family Discipleship

The Simplicity of Family Discipleship

“Daddy,” my six-year-old leaned over and whispered in my ear, “should I change it to baseball? Because that’s what our family does”— and I was reminded that family discipleship can be far simpler than we sometimes think. Three or four months had passed since this...

Gaps that Remain in the Faith-at-Home Movement

Gaps that Remain in the Faith-at-Home Movement

Ron Hunter led the launch of the D6 Conference in 2009. Around 1,400 attendees heard the faith-at-home message in Dallas at that first D6 Conference. Over the next several years, more than ten thousand participants attended D6, and this yearly gathering developed into...

In Praise of Inefficiency

In Praise of Inefficiency

I saw something beautiful the other day while walking down Breckenridge Lane. In a front yard not far from my home, a young mother was removing a layer of sodden leaves from a flower bed in preparation for planting—an ordinary activity in the middle of an ordinary...