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01-05-2008, 11:37 AM
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Greetings from Calgary, Alberta.
I happened upon The Puritan Board via a Google search on a topic, and I look forward to exploring through the site.
I am a 34-year old member of a local PCA church. I have been married for 2 years and my wife and I are expecting our first child.
Five years ago, I would have mocked anyone who suggested that I would become a Christian. I had been raised in a humanistic home and had lived a very atheistic life, wandering far from God. Four years ago, I became a Christian, much to the astonishment of friends and family. I praise God that he can pluck someone as undeserving as me out of the morass at 34, and I thank God for bringing a Christian woman into my life.
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Originally Posted by ericfromcowtown  Greetings from Calgary, Alberta.
I happened upon The Puritan Board via a Google search on a topic, and I look forward to exploring through the site. | Welcome! Quote:
Originally Posted by ericfromcowtown I am a 34-year old member of a local PCA church. I have been married for 2 years and my wife and I are expecting our first child. | Congratulations! Quote:
Originally Posted by ericfromcowtown Five years ago, I would have mocked anyone who suggested that I would become a Christian. I had been raised in a humanistic home and had lived a very atheistic life, wandering far from God. Four years ago, I became a Christian, much to the astonishment of friends and family. I praise God that he can pluck someone as undeserving as me out of the morass at 34, and I thank God for bringing a Christian woman into my life. | Praise the Lord! That's really exciting to hear that you became a Christian! Maybe sometime you can share more of your story about how God brought you to Himself. I too was an athiest before God saved me, and I still marvel at what God did.
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And an Albertan, too!
We'll try to overlook the Calgary part 
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Originally Posted by ericfromcowtown Greetings from Calgary, Alberta.
I happened upon The Puritan Board via a Google search on a topic, and I look forward to exploring through the site.
I am a 34-year old member of a local PCA church. I have been married for 2 years and my wife and I are expecting our first child.
Five years ago, I would have mocked anyone who suggested that I would become a Christian. I had been raised in a humanistic home and had lived a very atheistic life, wandering far from God. Four years ago, I became a Christian, much to the astonishment of friends and family. I praise God that he can pluck someone as undeserving as me out of the morass at 34, and I thank God for bringing a Christian woman into my life. | Your life story speaks of Wonderful grace! Good to have you here brother.
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Welcome! It just goes to show that even people from Calgary are not beyond God's grasp! <I'm from Edmonton>
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welcome!
wonderful testimony to Jesus!
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28.18 and Jesus came and spoke to them - “All power has been given to me in Heaven and on Earth. 28.19 So, go teach all nations, immersing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
28.20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you, and see, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen”. Matthew 28:18-20 |
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Welcome!
Is hard to overlook that Calgary thing though
Do you have to live there?
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