Hi Everyone,

I am brand new to the Puritan Board. Thanks for allowing me to hang out and learn for you all.

I was born and raised in the midwest as a Roman Catholic. I became a Christian when I was 25, as I was reading a book that was given to me by a neighbor. My first church experience as a disciple of Jesus Christ was in an Assemblies of God church. After three years, my wife and I moved to Minneapolis where we first heard the doctrines of grace, under the ministry of John Piper, and where I became a convinced Calvinist. My wife Robin and I moved to SE Asia to do M* work.

It was in 2007 that I began to hunger for more of an authentic, historic, Reformed theology. On a Furlough in 2007, I went to a Bethlehem Conference for Pastors and met Joel Beeke (who was not speaking but just meeting people in the bookstore.) He introduced me to the Reformed Confessions Harmonized book that he and Sinclair Ferguson edited. I found the presentation of theology in those confessions thoroughly Biblical and satisfying to my soul. Since then, I have studied the WCF, the Larger Catechism, and am currently teaching my children the WSC. I also have a great appreciation for the 3FU, especially the Heidelberg Catechism.

I consider myself a Credobaptist (LBCF), but I am still searching that out. The weakness for me of Credobaptism is that it does not seem to do full justice to the Covenant Theology that I love.

One other thing about me. I can get long winded...

Blessings,

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Kevin
EFCA
SE Asia

“All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of a soul depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ.” John Owen

Welcome aboard, Kevin!

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Jonathan
Audio Engineer
Reformed Anabaptist
Ohio

Moroni's magical glasses of proper interpretation:

Welcome to the PB, Kevin!

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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

Welcome, brother!

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Kevin, husband of a truly angelic woman, and father to ten.
Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield
Ontario, Canada

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

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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)

Hey Kevin! Good to have you on board!

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Michael Turner
Christ Reformed Church | Independent [WCF]
Georgia

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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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

Welcome aboard.

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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

Hello Kevin!

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John Komenda
Symphony Bible Church
Conservative Baptist
Buffalo, New York

Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear. Is.65:24 ESV

Were in S.E. Asia are you from?

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Robert Brown
Emmanuel OPC
Kent Washington

Augustine. ' Animam meam in odia haberem'
(Translated) I would hate my own soul if I did not find it loving God

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

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Jim
1689 LBCF
Independent Bible Church
North Texas, USA

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-

Well hello there!

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JWithnell
Member Bethel OPC
Virginia
http://learningyesican.blogspot.com/

Welcome to the PB! Looking forward to some long-winded discussions, too.

AMR

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Patrick
Member, PCA
Chandler, AZ
ReformedTheologyInstitute.com

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

welcome!

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~ Charles Stephen Barribeau ~
Christ Presbyterian Church , OPC (They sing alot of Psalms!)
Original Westminster Standards (I need to study more...)
The Puritans were best! Also... I NEED TO READ MORE!!!
Philipians1:29(KJV) For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Janesville, Wisconsin (In the fellowship of Bob Vigneault and Matt+Megan Meisberger)

Hi there!

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Ewen
1689 LBCF
Assemblies of God Bible College
Singapore

hi Kevin, Welcome to the PB! your testimony sounds like a wonderful journey of God's grace being poured out upon you. May He continue to do so as you grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord.

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Andrew S.
Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Abilene,TX

Welcome!

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Traci
Lynnwood OPC
"I have taken all my good deeds, and all my bad deeds, and cast them through each other in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace."--David Dickson

Welcome to Puritan Board. I too was wondering where you were located in Southeast Asia

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Thomas Yeutter,
Mason, MI
Member St. Patrick's Anglican Church, Comstock, MI

Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach its statues in Isreal.

Welcome and god Bless!

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Alan Hughes
PCA
Lake Zurich, Illinois

If you think I'm a Hyper-Calvinist, God planned that thought before the foundation of the Earth. If you try to tell me that God only planned some things and not all things, then your problem is with God not me.

Welcome!!

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Amber
South Woods Baptist Church http://southwoodsbc.org/
wife of Tyler; mother of Ashley, Nathaniel, Isaac, Jeremiah
O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling places. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God. Psalm 43:3

Welcome!

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Tom Von Stroh
Member, Heartland Community Church, PCA Wichita, KS
MDIV student, RTS Jackson, starting 2010

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

Deo Vindice

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