Gary North wrote up an article today titled Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History. Having bought into the bitcoin “craze” about a year ago, I feel obligated to write back a response to some of the misconceptions he propagates in his article. Those misconceptions are not unique to Mr. North; others have expressed […]

Many people who know me know that one of my pet peeves is when people try to pass The Battle Hymn of the Republic off as a Christian hymn. My blood pressure goes up every time I hear it. At church this morning, we sang what I now consider the antidote. You can hear the […]

I found a post by a guy I hadn’t read before, linked from Mark Hornes’ blog. It’s comments on the recent PCA General Assembly, but I really loved his quote at the end: Chapter 1 of [The Westminster] confession seems to be saying this in essence “Stop arguing about the confession. Go do Biblical Theology. […]

We received a package today from Grant McCabe, the Stated Clerk for the new Philadelphia Metro West Presbytery. The package contained a cover letter describing the members of the commission appointed to hear our complaint we sent in a few months ago. While no date has been set for the actually commission hearing, they’ve given […]

Almost a year ago, Tom highlighted an excellent blog post from the Wittenberg Gate called “Controlling Personalities in the Church”. This month, WG featured an excellent post from Rev. Reed DePace, PCA, entitled “Advice When Facing Spiritual Abuse” regarding the difficult task of confronting others – and what to do if that person is in […]

I was recently made aware of a recent motion by the Evangel Presbytery (PCA) regarding this whole Federal Vision thing going on in Reformed Churches right now. While I haven’t received this first hand, this is the entirety of the motion as far as I know: Evangel Presbytery declares that the doctrines of the “New […]

Look… I understand all the critiques that a lot of Reformed folk have with the “seeker sensitive” churches. Sure, we can all tell those churches by their worship theater and entertainment extravaganza. The services are dynamic, the hair is peroxided, the teeth are whitened, and the worship team is speaking in the tongues of angels […]

The Session of Olive Street Presbyterian Church (we changed our name) has once again decided that they are unable to try Sarah and me, and have referred the trial to Presbytery. Maybe they think that since we’re in a new Presbytery, they’ll get a different answer. I’m not sure why it took ten months to […]

So, last night’s trial session was cancelled due to rain. We had some strong rain come through the area, and it knocked out the power at our prosecuter’s house. I guess he assumed that the power was out at the church building as well, so he called around to people to cancel the meeting. Oddly […]

After sending in our last complaint to the Session regarding their having delayed the trial for 10 months, we received a letter from them saying that the trial will resume on July 18, 2006. Interestingly, while they’ve chosen to resume the trial, they also rejected our complaint about the delay of a trial. When questioned […]