Hello all. I've benefited from the conversation on PB for some time and finally decided that it was time to take the plunge. My wife and I have been on a journey towards the Reformed faith for some time and we're finally on the verge of actually joining a confessional Reformed church. She grew up in the United Methodist Church, although it seemed more Southern Baptist. I grew up in the American Baptist Churches. We're now both members of an evangelical American Baptist congregation out here and for a while we considered ourselves Reformed Baptists. However, Baptists, I'm sorry to inform you that just recently that began to change. We're only Baptist by church membership now, not conviction.

It was mainly a combination of reading classic covenant theology, Pierre Marcel's brilliant little book, Meredith Kline's works, some WSCAL guys' writings, and talking to a good friend in the RCUS that finally did it. I finally waved the white flag of surrender (my wife says she's been humoring me all along). At this point, I feel that I can fully subscribe the Three Forms of Unity. We're looking to move back to Kansas City at the end of this summer and are planning to join a local RCUS congregation. It's been a crazy ride for us so far in just under a year of married life. We've moved across the country once already and once we got here, I ended up withdrawing from my Baptist seminary. We're pretty worn out, but I guess it's better to work out this stuff now rather than thirty years down the line.

I'm looking forward to finding out more about the confessional Reformed denominations from you all. The board has already been quite a boon to us in several ways so far (thanks for the pocket psalter info, Kaalvenist!).

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Bryan Peters,
First Baptist Church, ABC-USA
Conshohocken, PA
Three Forms of Unity (moving to RCUS soon)

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we trust Him; the greater be our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith.
~J. Gresham Machen~

Welcome.

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Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
Church Blog

"there is no creature, either in heaven or on earth, who loves us more than Jesus Christ"
Belgic Confession, Article 26

Welcome to the Puritan Board!

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"On land, at sea, at home, abroad, / I smoke my pipe and worship God." -- J.S. Bach

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Chris Coldwell
Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
• Naphtali Press: Presbyterian & Reformed Books
• The Confessional Presbyterian, A Journal for Discussion of Presbyterian Doctrine & Practice
• The Blue Banner Archive

When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another on having gone greatly beyond the ‘old dead orthodoxy,’ and on having left behind many of its antiquated errors: but when taxed with deviations from the received faith, they complain of the unreasonableness of their accusers, as they ‘differ from it only in words.’ This has been the standing course of errorists ever since the apostolic age. Samuel Miller, Introductory essay, The Articles of the Synod of Dort (1841).

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John J.
Member Christ Prebyterian Church (OPC) Preparing For Eldership
Salt Lake City, Utah
www.christpres.net
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us...
Currently reading Patristic Roots of Reformed Worship

Welcome! Nice to have someone off of the blue route.

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B.B.
Elder
GBC

Deo volente

Welcome!

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
Member of TRBC. My Blog
The Puritan Pub (Team Blog)
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to the Puritan Board!
Nice to meet you.

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)
http://reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com/
The Regulative Principle of Worship: Explained and Applied (Xulon Press)
A Conquered Kingdom: Biblical Civil Government (Reformed Worldview Books)

Hi there! Welcome to the PB.

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Nikki Edmond
New Beginnings Believers Bible Fellowship (Family's Church), Non-Denom
Los Angeles, CA
www.haveatulip.com - Chat Room for Reformed Believers
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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~James Helbert~, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
TheBibleAlone.com / The Edinburgh Inn
"Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” - Zechariah 3:2

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Davidius
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics

And though the really inspired artist may complain that, with the majority, piano-playing is mere strumming, and painting little more than daubing, yet, the exuberant feeling of having a share in the privileges of art is so overwhelming, that the scorn of the artist is preferred to the abandonment of art training in education. To have laid a production of your own, however poor, upon the altar of art becomes more and more the characteristic of an accomplished civilization. - Abraham Kuyper

Welcome, Byran.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor
Maranatha Baptist Church
Poplar Grove, Illinois USA
http://maranatha-sbc.org/
Husband to Nancy
Father to Sherril, Sarah, Kathryn
Grandfather to Phillip
Faith is the refusal to panic. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Aren't those "aha" moments wonderful?

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HaigLaw, ruling elder
Grace PCA, Shreveport, LA
http://www.xanga.com/HaigLaw

Welcome Bryan. I have read your blog on numerous occasions.

As an ex-ABC guy myself (52 years in the old PSW, nowTM), I commend you in your journey. I also applaud your withdrawing from the Baptist seminary I suspect you just withdrew from (did they change their name a few years back after gettting a mega-bucks gift from a donor???). After years of being part of boards and committees meeting in King of Prusia, PA, I also surrendered and raised the white flag.

Bless you and your wife!

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Dennis E. McFadden
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

Welcome!!!

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church

Student of Theology
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
My Blog

Welcome to the Puritanboard.

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How often have you wondered why Christ should set His heart upon such a one as you! --Octavius Winslow

Lon Wadkins (Jesup, Iowa)
New Covenant Fellowship, OPC
Independence, Iowa

to the Puritanboard. Nice to have you.

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~Jay~
Husband of ENS, father of J II. | Indian Trail, NC
Teacher Aide, Union County Public Schools, NC
Communicant Member, Precentor | Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte, NC | Presbyterian Reformed Church

Welcome!! I just love to hear about couples becoming Reformed together. Our God is awesome!!

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Traci
Lynnwood OPC
Psalm 52:8-9
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

and

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Paul W.
Ordained Pastor, SBC
Girard, Illinois

My blog: A Pilgrim's Ponderings Wife's blog: Grace in Bloom

Conshahocken!! I stayed at the Marriott overlooking the "Conshahocken Curve" for four months while I was working on a job up there. We use to go to the White Marsh Inn and order the #4!

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~Wayne Wylie~
Member, Mid Cities Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Ruling Elder - Inactive
http://www.mcopc.org
Bedford, TX

Job 28:28 - And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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C.P. --Attending Grace Community Baptist Church, Mandeville, LA

"Where is the young man who fears the judgment to come? What is the breath of an enemy of God to the blast of the soul by the breath of the Almighty? If you fear the frowns of a fellow worm, how will you stand in judgment with an angry God?" --Asahel Nettleton

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