Hi!

My husband and I have actually enjoyed lurking here for about 2 years now.

I live in N MS, just south of Collierville, TN. My family is involved in an OPC church plant there. These are exciting days for us! Lord willing, we should have our interim pastor with us soon!

I am a native Floridian, who spent my JR/HS years in Chattanooga, TN, married to a Dutch man, raised as an MK in Irian Jaya, Indonesia (now Papua) by a French mother and Dutch father. He is a carpenter/builder and we have a cabinet shop/construction company here.

The Lord has blessed us with 6 children and I homeschool them all. My youngest just turned 4 and my oldest is a senior this year, so we are beginning a new chapter of life next year!

The Lord has used many discussions here on the Puritan Board in our journey and in teaching us to *think biblically* in many things. I think it is a shame that so many of us are NOT being taught in our churches and have to resort to a board on the internet....but we are thankful in our case that there IS such a board. Thank you to all of you who have taken part in splitting so many hairs here and making us think.

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Polly
wife and mom
participating in an OPC church plant effort in Collierville, TN
living in N MS

Glad you could join us.

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John Lanier
Elder in Training
Reformed Baptist Church
Topeka, KS

Welcome, neighbor

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Daniel
PCA
Memphis, TN

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

Welcome.

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Brian Eschen
Ruling Elder, PCA
Pleasanton, California

Welcome to the PB family.

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Jim
1689 LBCF
Independent Bible Church
North Texas, USA

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Norm
IA PCA

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. Ephesians 1:4-5

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Wayne Sparkman, Th.M.
Director, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, MO
Blogs: The Continuing Story and PCA History Blog

Greetings!

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Ivan R. Schoen, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S.
Pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church (SBC)
Poplar Grove, IL, USA
http://maranatha-sbc.org

Greetings!

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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC
Bothell WA
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Westminster Standards

Thank you

Josiah, we spent some time in the Bellingham area of NW WA. Wish we had known of the OPC then.

Daniel, yes! We are neighbors...and our new pastor is your new music minister's fil!

Welcome Polly! If you and your husband come down to Jackson let me know, my wife and I love to have people over for lunch after church!

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Alan
Seminarian, RTS Jackson, MS
OPC

Welcome! You must know Zach and Holly Loomis? I met them at an OPC college and career retreat in Texas in March and they said they were involved in an OPC plant in the Memphis area.

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Dan Dorman
Member of Pilgrim OPC in my hometown-Bangor, Maine
Currently attending Christ the King OPC in Longview, Texas, where I am a college student

“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted” -Jonathan Edwards
What is meant by "Christian Hedonism"?

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Ashley
Crossbridge Community Church
Texas
vincit qui patitur

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! Romans 11:33 NASB

Thank you Alan! And we extend the same invitation to YOU and your family if you ever find yourself up here!

Dan! Holly and Zach Loomis are two of my dd's very good friends. I think they have already *informed* Megan that she is coming with them next year. How funny!

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Rangerus
Southern Baptist
Austin, TX
Teacher and Volunteer
1689 LBCF & BF&M 2000

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Michael P Doyle
Waukesha WI
Member of http://www.cornerstone-pca.com/
Attending http://www.lampseminary.org/

Welcome, Polly.

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Heidi
Indianapolis, Indiana

Patience must dwell with Love, for Love and Sorrow
Have pitched their tent together here:
Love all alone will build a house tomorrow,
And sorrow not be near. -Christina Rossetti

Welcome to you Polly! You might know Tom and Rhiannon Berdeja. They are good friends and have been attending that church plant on occasion. P.S., I am also a member of Riveroaks who is living in a self-imposed exile here in Mississippi.

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Michael J. Butterfield, M.Div. RTS Jackson, MS
Presently living in Pickens, MS
Attend Pickens and Tchula, MS PCA Churches

No man can know sin without knowing the law: and herein appears to me one of the prevailing defects of modern preaching: I mean the neglect of holding up this perfect mirror, in which the sinner shall see reflected his own moral image. (John Angell James)

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Albert, The Republic of the Philippines
Pasig United Covenant Reformed Church (a Reformed church plant)
United Covenant Reformed Churches in the Philippines (UCRCP)
Three Forms of Unity and Westminster Confession of Faith

Psalm 27:1a (AV) The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
“Perseverance is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of God, but also a continuance in the same as long as life lasts.” -

Welcome.

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Curt Lovelace
Pastor, Covenant Baptist Church (CBA)
Acton, Maine
Director, Lifework Forum
Sermons at SermonAudio.com/CBCActon
Blogging at Coffee with Curt

Welcome.

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Chris
Teaching Elder (PCUSA)
West Virginia
"Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation." (Habakkuk 3:17-18)

Welcome to the board.

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soli Deo gloria!
~Nicholas~ Ordained Pastor
Member, Fulton PCA; GPTS Student
Christians are like snow covered dung; it is the purity of the covering which the Father sees. -Luther-
There is nothing more ugly than a Christian orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.
-Francis Schaeffer-

Yes, Michael, we have had the pleasure of meeting the Berdeja's. We look forward to getting to know them better!

Welcome, JoyFullMom. I'm glad to hear that God has used the discussions here to blessed you. I happen to sit under the teaching of one of the hairsplitters.

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Sandra, Lady of the Lake
CBA, Acton ME
http://www.viewsfromthedeck.blogspot.com

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16

Blessings from our family!

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Brian
Grace Bible Church;E.Bridgewater
East Bridgewater MA
http://www.gracebiblehome.org

Hi Polly -- I spent a brief amount of time in Collierville in the early 80's -- I'll bet it's changed since then.

Six kids !! -- I have six kids too, but I can't imagine homeschooling all of them. How old are they?

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John Bugay
City Reformed PCA, Pittsburgh, PA
http://reformation500.wordpress.com
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And the sphere of a creature's knowledge, be it that of an infant, or of a man, or of a philosopher, or of a prophet, or of saint or archangel in heaven, will float as a point of light athwart the bosom of that God who is the infinite Abyss for ever. From A.A. Hodge, "Evangelical Theology," pg 16.

Howdy, Polly. My brother lives just down the road from you. And, my sister lives just up the road from you. I haven't seen 'Irian Jaya' in a while. I knew some folks from college that went there. Some of them were going back. They grew up there.

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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lawrence Underwood, Jr.
Pastor - Providence Family Fellowship / Mobile, Alabama
1644/46 LBC
My Blog - Imprimis

Thanks for all the warm welcomes!

John, I'll post the ages of my children in my user profile. And yes, you would NOT recognize Collierville *at all* now. For one thing, there is a large open mall there now!

Lawrence, I wonder if my dh would know some of your friends? He grew up there, but his family immigrated to the states in the 70's for the kids' high school years. After his parents went back, my dh went to a vo-tech school in PA and then spent a couple of years in Haiti. However, if they grew up in Irian during the 60's/70's, I think ALL kids went to the English boarding school in Sentani. (That is where my dh learned English)

Welcome to the PB!

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Yvonne
Reformed Presbyterian
Currently seeking a Church

"A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions." -T. Brooks

Greetings!

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Mike Myers
Teaching Elder
West Suffolk Baptist Church
Suffolk, Virginia

Many a plain, honest, unlearned disciple of Christ, by meditation, experience, prayers, and especially obedience, attains to a more clear, sound, and useful knowledge of the word of God, than some great scholars with all their wit and learning. Matthew Henry

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sarah
WI
OPC
My Pastor's Sermons: Mark Jenkins...he's awesome!!!

Welcome!!!

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Alex - Orange County, CA - PCA

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."
Galatians 2:20

Manton - "The sovereign dominion of God is a great prop to our faith."

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Michael Tremmel
attending Christ Reformed Baptist Church
Hales Corners, WI.

Isaiah 46:5-11

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Ps.16:8 ESV

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. 1 Cor.15:10a ESV

Praecepta docent, exempla movent (precepts teach, but examples move)

Hello Polly! Good to have you here!

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Michael Turner
Christ Reformed Church | Independent [WCF]
Georgia

to the PB

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Martin - Reformed
Husband to the most godly, honorable and loyal wife Line
Searching for a Church
Webpage www.5solas.dk
Free Online Reformed Seminary - http://www.tnars.net
Soli Deo Gloria