I've been a member here for going on 3 months now, drawn here by the discussion of Federal Vision in the LA Presbytery of the PCA.

As my signature says, I'm a ruling elder in the PCA church in Shreveport, LA.

My wife Becky is a retired Spanish teacher, and we have 4 grown kids, 3 daughters and a son. Our oldest daughter is married with three daughters. Our son is newly married.

I was a lawyer in Texas for 33 year before accepting a sensitive position with a federal agency 2 years ago. I love my work.

In my former law practice, I focused on bankruptcy work and disability cases. I used to do quite a bit of religious-liberty defense work, like defending home-schoolers back in the 80's. That work is discussed in A Home School History Lesson, by Tim Lambert, President of the Texas Home school Coalition.

I was also a credentialed Texas Mediator and an Arbitrator certified by the Better Business Bureau and National Association of Securities Dealers.

On April 26, 1969, I became a Christian while serving as a young officer in the USAF in Massachusetts. I was taught Calvinism early on and in 1976 discovered the PCA. I served as an elder in the Colleyville PCA until we moved to Abilene in 1983, where there was no PCA work. We worshipped with the OPC for several years while there.

My main interests are systematic theology and church history.

God bless you all who are seeking to serve Him faithfully.

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

Welcome!

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B.B.
Elder
GBC

Deo volente

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

Wow. Very interesting! Thanks for introducing yourself.

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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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Yours sincerely,


"Illum oportet crescere me autem minui."

Glad to have you here!

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Jeff Bartel
Mechanical Engineer
Member - Trinity Reformed Church - RPCNA

"To believe in the power of man in the work of regeneration is the great heresy of Rome, and from that error has come the ruin of the Church. Conversion proceeds from the grace of God alone, and the system which ascribes it partly to man and partly to God is worse than Pelagianism" (The Reformation in England (London, 1962), Vol. 1, p. 98)

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Welcome, Sir.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
Member of TRBC. My Blog
The Puritan Pub (Team Blog)
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Welcome Dave. Your name is familiar but I am not sure we've meet. We probably knew some of the same people from the Texas scene. I think I was at Colleyville later part of 1983 and part of 1984.

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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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Well, you were a member before I was, but


I have enjoyed reading several of your posts already.

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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

Thx, McFadderator. So you are a Mod, then?

Thanks! I've seen you around too. You have been much more active than I.

Thanks! I've seen you around too. You have been much more active than I.

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

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

Thanks very much. What does your title "puritanboard librarian" mean?

Thanks! I like your quote from Calvin.

Howdy, HaigLaw!

Glad you're here. ;^)

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Anne Ivy
Christ Chapel Bible Church
Fort Worth, Texas

Married to Don, mother of six, grandmother to an ever-increasing brood.

The Ivy Vine (my blog)

Andrew is the lightning-fast reference poster. It's a bit difficult to explain. You might click on his profile and click on the link that says, "Find all posts by VirginiaHuguenot." Many of his thousands of posts will be responses to people's inquiries (even some very quirky ones), wherein he has provided references for answers on various arrays of subjects. It's quite ridiculous actually (j/k)!

Welcome to the PB HaigLaw!

I know we've had a few run ins on the board. When I read your into, however, I was dumbfounded. (read that slapped myself) I'm an avid supporter of homeschooling, and lived in Austin for years. I vaguely remember the TEA party. That was a few years after my conversion. It is an esteemed honor to meet you. The history lesson you linked to made my day!! Church History is interesting and exciting, so I'm looking forward to what you have to say.

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Timothy Johnson
First United Presbyterian of Moline
PCUSA (Yea, I know)
Theology/Philosophy Sunday School Teacher
Davenport, IA

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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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Good to have you here.

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Rae W. | Elder @ Grace Central (PCA) | Columbus, OH
not another blog, v2.0

Heylo and Welcomies!

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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.