wikipedia PCA

Went on a pastoral visit not long ago and heard a reference to this Wikipedia article. It never even crossed my mind that we would be on this site. Who knew? And the list of names too... not that the PCA culture is given to name dropping- but name posting? That's a new one.

Here's the denominations official web page.

It funny how much a part of our lives technology has become- blogs- wikis and all.


Maybe we need a DPC vidblog...

Miroslav Volf- Exclusion and Embrace

My thesis is that the practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance...My thesis will be unpopular with many in the West... But imagine speaking to people (as I have) whose cities and villages have been first plundered, then burned, and leveled to the ground, whose daughter and sisters have been raped, whose fathers and brothers have had their throats slit... Your point to them--- we should not retaliate? Why not? I say-- the only means of prohibiting violence by us is to insist that violence is only legitimate when it comes from god... Violence thrives today, secretly nourished by the belief that god refuses to take the sword... It takes the quiet of a suburb for the birth of the thesis that human nonviolence is a result of a God who refuses to judge. In a scorched land-- soaked in the blood of the innocent, the idea will invariably die, like other pleasant captivities of the liberal mind... if God were NOT angry at injustice and deception and did NOT make a final end of violence, that God would not be worthy of our worship.

Yes, it does take the quiet of a suburb for the birth of the thesis that human nonviolence is a result of a God who refuses to judge.

missionary preaching

Mike Pettengill will be preaching this coming Sunday, January 4th. I can't wait to hear an update and also to hear how God's kingdom is growing in Honduras. I get really jazzed about the growth of the church worldwide. I love to hear the continued story of redemption in peoples lives and how God changes the ones he sends and the ones that are served. I also like to hear about the work of missions and evangelism from full time missions workers like Mike and his family because it reminds me (and us) of that same call to love and serve wherever God places us.