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Ah, Brotherhood
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. I immediately ran over and said “Stop! Don’t do it!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said. I said, “Well, there’s so much to live for!” “Like what?” “Well … are you religious or atheist?” “Religious.” […]
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Quote 0f the Day
“Peace is not the absence of trouble but the presence of God.” – J. Oswald Sanders
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I Think He’s Got It
Rev. Andy Webb has written a “brief thought” up on the Warfield List, in which I think he means to score some points in the FV debate, but really just shows that he’s confused on how to keep score. He writes the following (I tried to keep the emphasis and formatting the same): While Waters […]
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Premature Departure
I received a press release in my mailbox last night from the Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church. “Who,” you may ask? Well, the ERPC is the newest Protestant Christian denomination on the block. For more information, you can read their press release yourself. An organizing committee of pastors and elders today announced formation of The Evangelical […]
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How do you answer a fool?
Life’s full of fools. Some verses for reflection: Pro 26:4-5 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Or you will also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Ecc 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth […]
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Avoiding the Argument Party
Christianity Today (“Take the best and leave the rest”, as my mother in law would say) has a number of newsletters available via email. One that I subscribe to is the Leadership Journal. Here is an excerpt from part of today’s newsletter entitled Avoiding the Argument Party by Brian D. McLaren.
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More Catholic Than Baptist
Some people had commented to me about the relatively high score that Roman Catholic had scored on my recent denomination survey I had taken. Should it be surprising that I relate more closely to the Roman Catholic church than I do to Non-Calvinist Baptists, Pentecostals, Charismatics, and Quakers? I don’t think so, and here is […]
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Abusive Churches – Two Articles
I was doing a search on confronting Christians who are involved with manipulation and stumbled upon this article this morning. An excerpt: First, abusive churches have a control-oriented style of leadership. Second, the leaders of such churches often use manipulation to gain complete submission from their members. Third, there is a rigid, legalistic lifestyle involving […]
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Washing Their Hands
Well, it’s done (again?). The Session has handed over their jurisdiction to the Presbytery. The gist of what they’re asking the Presbytery is contained the following paragraph: Therefore, we petition the Heritage Presbytery to establish a commission and to assume original jurisdiction, and to examine the issues involving Thomas Albrecht III and Sarah Albrecht in […]
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Ruling Elders Who Cannot Teach
I submit that the practice of ordaining people as “ruling” elders who are not able to teach is an evil curse on the Church.
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Afternoon Worship
We can’t do it. Our family just cannot do this early afternoon worship service thing. Two of our four kids are physically used to napping at that time, and I don’t feel right discipling overtired children in the service. It’s sad, because I like the afternoon service. No pressure to get up Sunday morning… I […]
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April Status
I guess I should probably give an update as to where our family is in regards to our ongoing conflict with the IPC Session.
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One Complaint Upheld by Presbytery
Just got back from the information meeting with the Heritage Presbytery Judicial Committee Commission over our recent complaints. The summary is that they denied our first complaint and upheld our second complaint against our Session. Sarah and I are very pleased at the outcome, and based on what the Presbytery commissioners said, the first complaint […]
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New Church Members?
A week ago Sunday, we had a couple guys in our church stand before the congregation and answer the “membership questions” that our pastor asks all new church members.
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Federal Vision Repository Online
Grace Fellowship Church is now posting and editing a repository of documents dealing with the Federal Vision and the New Perspective on Paul, and it’s “encroachment… in the Presbyterian Church in America“. Some of the editorial comments on the site are less than charitable, but it’s nice to have all the documents handy. (via the […]