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03-23-2008, 08:56 PM
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hello everyone. i live in grand haven michigan with my wife Monica and two girls Brynne L'abri, and Nylah Renee. We are planning to move to North Carolina so my wife can go through pharmacy school (distance pathway through Creighton in Omaha Neb., so the studies are done at home).
I'll be teaching at a classical Christian academy: theology, rhetoric, literature and writing.
I have an MDiv from Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake IN., and my journey to the reformed confession of the faith has been a great joy! I grew up in the Lutheran church here in Grand Haven, but never really knew Christ, apart from assent to doctrine.
I lived a pretty wild life--standard fair for most American boys out on their own at a state college. At 22, I repented and "laid claim to the promises of the covenant," aka got saved. I finished a B.A. in Literature in Kalamazoo and went off to seminary thereafter.
Lately, I have been trying to discover my vocational calling. since graduating seminary, I have worked in a factory, at a homeless shelter, and lastly at a subprime lender. I just got fired! I'm happy about it actually.
Love you all,
mark
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member 1st Christian Reformed Church (don't freak out on me, now)
Grand Haven, MI www.vanallsblog.blogspot.com
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03-23-2008, 08:57 PM
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03-23-2008, 09:03 PM
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| | | forgot to say, my favorite reads are: Murray, Bavinck, and Reymond's new systematic. and I like Doug Wilson's books on classical education (don't freak out on me--his stuff on education is very good). I love Bahnsen, Van Til and Schaeffer and most apologetics, in general.
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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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03-23-2008, 10:09 PM
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And just so you know I totally freaked out when I saw that you are a member of the Christian Reformed Church!
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03-23-2008, 11:00 PM
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