I have been reading the PB for well over a year now and have been very thankful for the window into the reformed Church that the PB represents.

I have very recently become a member of the Free Church of Scotland congegation in London (which rather amusingly meets almost on the location that Wesley was converted) and am very happy to be admitted to this marvelous board.

I pass the time by collecting works by (or concerning) Augustus Toplady and concerning the Muggletonians (a 17th Century heretical sect).

I am here to learn so please feel very free to point out where I am (or may be) in error in anything that I post.

Mike

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Mike
London City Presbyterian Church
London
England

"Surely, we wish to be orthodox, but we must first learn what real orthodoxy is. Surely, we wish to be progressive, but we must first have a basis to progress from."

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Chris Coldwell
Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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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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Mike, welcome. Nice to have another member from the land of my ancestors.

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Bill Brown
Elder
Grace Baptist Church
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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Welcome!!!

(Who do you support in the EPL?)

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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, Mike!

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J Baldwin
Keowee Presbyterian Church, PCA
Pickens, SC
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

Check Out My Blog: http://reflectjoy.blogspot.com/

Welcome to the PB. We need more Brits here and more Free Church people.
Before moving to the USA I was a member of the Free Church of Scotland. Whenever I go home to Scotland I always worship there. I have been at LCPC a couple of times and was richly blessed by the worship and fellowship.

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Donnie MacLeod
Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship (PCA), Maplewood, MO
MDiv Student Covenant Theological Seminary

You filled my heart with greater joy
than others may have found
As they rejoiced at harvest time,
when grain and wine abound.Ps 4:7, Sing Psalms 2003

Welcome.

Hello and welcome!

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Ian Kemmerer
Covenant Presbetyrian Church,Reading,PA
Fleetwood,PA

"Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart, And all is darkened in the vale of tears, Then shalt thou better know His love, His heart, Who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears. Be still, my soul: thy Jesus can repay From His own fullness all He takes away."

Welcome Mike

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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

Welcome Mike!

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

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Welcome!!

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Richard
CofE
UK

Hi MIke

Have seen you over on 'the other place'. You are not at TRC any more then?

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Jonathan Hunt

Preaching Elder
Cheltenham Evangelical Free Church (Confessionally Based)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
-- Thomas Elsworth

TRC (Trinity Road Chapel) is good church full of good Christians but I do feel very much at home in a truly reformed church like LCPC. I really did not like having a nativity scene complete will a doll in a manger at a christmas service at TRC and once you have tried Psalm singing it sure is hard to go back to praise choruses.

"(Who do you support in the EPL?)"

As for football (soccer), I follow Leeds Utd, a now very lowly team two divisions away from the premier league.

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

This may explain the old adage about Baptists being Methodists with shoes, and Presbyterians being Baptists who can read. To round out the adage, Lutherans might qualify as Presbyterians who drink to excess, and Episcopalians as Lutherans who know when to say when. - D.G. Hart

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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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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC Bothell Wa.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
NAPARC
Westminster Confession (1788)

Without the point deduction at the beginning they would be promoted back to the Championship.

Play Up Pompey

Greetings and Salutations Mike.

Good to see you here.

Grace and Peace.

Don.

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Donald Jacobs
Marysville. WA
Cascade Church (CRCNA)

Cum vero infirmor tunc potens sum.

to the Puritanboard. Nice to have you. Thank you for taking the opportunity to introduce yourself.

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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

Hello!

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~etexas~

Welcome, Mike! We're glad you're here!

Um (or should I say "erm?") - as you can see by my signature, I'm from "the other side of the tracks," as to church membership, but I'm in and thoroughly of the States and so -- "we're cool!" Right? ...!

We're all very happy that you've joined us!

I echo P19: grace and peace to you!

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

"He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

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, Sir.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
Member of TRBC. My Blog
The Puritan Pub (Team Blog)
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1689er
Harmony Baptist Church (Member)
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"Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation."
William Symington

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