Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

It is encouraging to see an active online community dedicated to Biblical orthodoxy and what has come to be known as the "Reformed Faith."

My name is Joel. I reside in Columbia, South Carolina, and attend Christ Church of the Carolinas (link here). The church is not a member of any denomination, but one of our pastors ministered in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP) for a number of years.

The Lord converted me while I was living in Thailand, where my parents labored as missionaries.

Of lesser importance, I am an undergraduate student at the University of South Carolina.

In this particular season, I would say that Titus 2:11-14 are my life verses:
"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."

I look forward to getting know members of this community of believers and benefiting from the resources available here.

Salvete!

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Joel
Member, Christ Church of the Carolinas (Non-denominational)
Thornwell Country, aka South Carolina

Welcome to the PB!

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Yvonne
Reformed Presbyterian
Currently seeking a Church

"A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions." -T. Brooks

Welcome.

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Brian Eschen
Ruling Elder, PCA
Pleasanton, California

Welcome.

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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

May God bless you through this resource.

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Sandra, Lady of the Lake
CBA, Acton ME
http://www.viewsfromthedeck.blogspot.com

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16

Welcome Joel!

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Nikki Edmond
Desert Springs Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Tucson, AZ
Principle and Practice Blog
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Welcome aboard, Joel.

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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lawrence Underwood, Jr.
Pastor - Providence Family Fellowship / Mobile, Alabama
1644/46 LBC
My Blog - Imprimis

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-

Welcome to the PB family.

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Jim
1689 LBCF
Independent Bible Church
North Texas, USA

Greetings!

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Anna
Wife of Tim/Marrow Man
Louisville, KY
Member of Midlane Park Presbyterian (Associate Reformed Presbyterian)

Thank you all for the welcoming messages.

Welcome, Joel! I am originally from Columbia and my family still lives there. I think your pastor went to the same college as my husband. I remember him but he would not remember us. I am extremely thankful the Lord brought us all to the place we are today spiritually.

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Janis
Christ Church ARP, NC
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved." Eph. 1:3-6 ESV

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Michael P Doyle
Waukesha WI
Member of http://www.cornerstone-pca.com/
Attending http://www.lampseminary.org/

Welcome. Never been to Columbia but I heard it was nice.

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John Lanier
Elder in Training
Reformed Baptist Church
Topeka, KS

Were your parents serving under the auspices of a denomination, or a parachurch organization?

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

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

Greetings!

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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC
Bothell WA
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Westminster Standards

Welcome to the PuritanBoard.

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R. Martin Snyder
1689er
http://www.puritanboard.com/blogs/puritancovenanter/

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

Deo Vindice

Welcome.

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Bill Brown
Elder
Reformed Baptist
Maryland

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Visit my BLOG Theology for the Rest of Us

Wayne,

My parents were originally with the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention. However, they left because of some disagreements which I do not wish to elaborate on.

They have since founded a new organization with a largely indigenous staff.

Welcome to the board! Time to get a dictionary and also bookmark the glossary page.

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Ewen
1689 LBCF
Assemblies of God Bible College
Singapore

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Albert, The Republic of the Philippines
Pasig United Covenant Reformed Church (a Reformed church plant)
United Covenant Reformed Churches in the Philippines (UCRCP)
Three Forms of Unity and Westminster Confession of Faith

Psalm 27:1a (AV) The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
“Perseverance is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of God, but also a continuance in the same as long as life lasts.” -

Greetings!

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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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What missions organization did your parents work at in Thailand and where? My former youth pastor (worked there before and then went back) is a missionary in Thailand. I doubt it's the same though since they've only been there in recent years.

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Jake; Hold to Original WCF, member of SBC; Greater Atlanta, Georgia Area

The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values; the cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. —Albert N. Martin

Welcome!

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Andrea
Presbyterian, attending Baptist church
Perugia, Italy
Owner: federiformata.it

"Quos et vocavit nos non solum ex Iudæis sed etiam ex gentibus" (Rom. 9.24)

welcome!

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Alex
Member of Carmel Baptist Church (SBC)
Matthews, NC

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Rev. Andy Eppard
Associate Minister
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Springfield, MO

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Rangerus
Southern Baptist
Austin, TX
Teacher and Volunteer
1689 LBCF & BF&M 2000

Welcome to the PB, Joel

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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

Joel,
I visited your church several times while I lived in SC. Your pastor was my SS teacher for years at First Pres. Welcome to PB.

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Janice
Tutor at Granite Classical Tutorials
Member First Presbysterian Columbia, SC
Attend Chapelgate PCA
Sykesville, MD

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

Howdy!

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Ben Castaneda
member of Faith Presbyterian Church (PCA)
San Antonio, TX
MDiv student at WSC
Escondido, CA

"Not all prison bars are made from metal, And not all prisoners walk about in chains." -Lysander from Weatherby, Earl of Gloucester

Hi!!! welcome

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Jessica Auner
Wife, Mother,
Garden City, Ga
Ephesus Church
(a Reformed Baptist church)

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Welcome, Joel! I know most of the members of your sister church in Anderson - Christ Reformed Church of the Carolinas. They are a great group of people. I trust the Columbia group ranks right up there with them!

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David Broyles
Greenville Presbyterian Church
Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
Upstate SC

"That man hath perfect blessedness;
Who walketh not astray
In counsel of ungodly men
Nor stands in sinners' way."
Psalm 1:1,2 - The Scottish Psalmody

Welcome!

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Alan
Seminarian, RTS Jackson, MS
OPC

Welcome!!!

Hey, do you ever make trips to Sinclair Ferguson's church to hear him preach? I did it once, and was extremely blessed.

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Alex - Orange County, CA - PCA

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."
Galatians 2:20

Manton - "The sovereign dominion of God is a great prop to our faith."

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 Joel!

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Michael Turner
Christ Reformed Church | Independent [WCF]
Georgia

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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)