Hi everyone.
I've been browsing this forum the last couple days and decided to join it today, so here I am. I am a college student studying engineering at LeTourneau University in Longview, TX. I attend Christ the King OPC here, and I am a member of Pilgrim OPC in Bangor, ME, back home. I had the blessing of growing up in the reformed faith and in the OPC. I also have quite the OPC heritage. My grandfather on my Dad's side graduated from Westminster Seminary, where he was a student of both Murray and Machen, and he has been an OPC pastor for over 50 years. We celebrated his 90th birthday last summer and he is still preaching in the OPC. My grandfather on my mom's side also graduated from Westminster and was a student of Murray. He has been an elder in the OPC for a long time. He grew up in a church in Maine that joined the OPC in it's first few years as a denomination. Also, John Murray's only son, Logan, is my uncle-he married my mom's sister.

More importantly than the reformed heritage I have is the personal grace and work of God in Christ by the Holy Spirit in my life. Because of God's grace, my salvation is my own and not just something I believe because my parents believe it. I have also been studying reformed theology on my own for the past few years and know that it is what I personally believe.

Anyways, I look forward to reading and perhaps contributing to more of the discussions here.

Soli Deo gloria!

-Dan

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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

"All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world." — John Piper

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

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How do you do?



Pleased to make your acquaintance.

That is quite some heritage!

Could have chosen a better screen name! .. refer to http://www.reformedbaptist.co.uk/Hedonism16.mp3

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Satch Chikhlia, Reformed Baptist, Surrey, England

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." Colossians 3.1

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to the Puritanboard. Nice to have you. Thanks for the intro!

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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

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
Member of TRBC. My Blog
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Welcome Dan, I am originally from down east as well. My mom was born in Biddeford, I was born in Vermont. Glad to have you here.

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Bob Vigneault (Bawb Vēēn-yo)
I'm learning more about less and less; soon I won't know anything at all!

The Heartbeat of Heaven (blog) MySpace (Music), MySpace (Personal)
Member of Christ Presbyterian Church, Janesville, WI OPC www.christ-opc.org
Jude 24,25

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Welcome,
I knew an old proffessor from Westminister Name John Skilton. He has passed away. It was a privilage to know Dr. Skilton in his latter years. There was a joke on campus that he would run into murray at a door and it would be a stand off as each offered the other entrance first. Ask your grandfathers if they knew him.

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Bruce
PCUSA
Ocean City NJ

Welcome!!!

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church

Student of Theology
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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Welcome!

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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

Welcome to the PB!

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~James Helbert~, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
TheBibleAlone.com / The Edinburgh Inn
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to the puritanboard.

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R. Martin Snyder
1689er PuritanCovenanter's MySpace Page
Harmony Baptist Church (Member)
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C.P.
Member,
Pineville Presbyterian Church (OPC)


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Welcome!

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B.B.
Elder
GBC

Deo volente

to the PuritanBoard !!

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Briant Holley
Grace Reformed Baptist Church
Husband to Barbara, Father of Alexis, Justin, and Lacey
Silver Creek, MS

Heylo! And Welcomies to the Puritan Board!

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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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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)

What a great heritage you have, Dan! Welcome!!

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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
"Give me the doctrines of grace, and I am in clover." --- Spurgeon

Glad to meetcha!

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Pergamum

Howdy!

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Dave Hall
Elgin, Texas
Ruling Elder
Providence Presbyterian Church, OPC (near Austin, TX)

"A Jedi's strength flows from the Java." - Yoda (paraphrased)

WELCOME! TWO grandfathers who were students of Murray "back in the day" + Murray's son is your uncle? Man, I know you TR guys make a lot of "covenant children." But, wow! Didn't you ever hear the old saw about God having no grandchildren?

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

Glad to have you, Dan.

I have a sister & bro-in-law in an OPC church in Freeport. You may know them, the Hollen family?

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Kevin Rogers
Mount Zion ARP
Moncton NB

Welcome. I wish I was descended of such strong covenantal ties.

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing." -Titus 3:13
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