I am pleased to announce the addition of seven new moderators that have joined the ranks of helping us Moderate this board. They are:

Rev. Lane Keister (greenbaggins)
Rev. Daniel Kok (Poimen)
Dennis McFadden (DMcFadden)
Todd Pedlar (toddpedlar)
Chris Poe (Pilgrim)
Rev. Matthew Winzer (armourbearer)
Ruben Zartman (py3ak)

I'm starting to feel like the heel on this Admin/Mod team. I am indeed privileged to add them to the team that helps set the tone within the threads and keeps this board on the tracks of Confessional Reformed theology. Please welcome them.

Why so many additions? In short, we're growing rapidly. We've recently started getting as many as four new applicants per day. The board's membership has almost doubled in the last year and a half and the number of regular visitors has shot up. By my reckoning, our traffic is now increasing at a rate of 10% per month. We're getting in front of the bow wave with some men whose hearts I am knit to because we share a common Confession in our risen Savior.

Welcome aboard gentlemen and thank you all for helping make this board what it is.

Our own Bawb contributed this:

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Rich
PCA, Northern VA
Student, New Geneva Theological Seminary

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Great choices Rich!

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et

Welcome, Gentlemen. Honored to have you.

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Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

I am delighted we are growing so fast!

There goes the neighborhood!

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Gil Garcia
Rehoboth Reformed Church (RCUS)
La Habra, CA

"Ignorance of this distinction between Law and Gospel is one of the principal sources of the abuses which corrupted and still corrupt Christianity." - Calvin's successor


"By the words of the law man is admonished and taught, not what he can do, but what he ought to do. How is it that you theologians are twice as stupid as schoolboys, in that as soon as you get hold of a single imperative verb you infer an indicative meaning...?"
-Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

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R. Martin Snyder
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No, only Dennis! Messing with you man! congrats!

Congrats everyone!

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

Great news! Congrats!!

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Dan
Member, Soaring Oaks Presbyterian (PCA)
www.soaringoaks.org
Northern California
The duty of a theologian is, not to please the ear with empty sounds, but to confirm the conscience by teaching things which are true, certain and profitable.
John Calvin, 1559

CONGRATS!!!!! I think a little Worms 3D Theme Song is in order!

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

Nice!

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Bill Brown
Elder
Reformed Baptist
Maryland

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Congrats and blessings, gentlemen!

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Andrew

Congratulations to all the new moderators.



To the OP: I've noticed the spelling change on the handle "Fidelis" (v. Fideles). Latin gramattical point? Did I miss the relevant thread?

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~Jay~
Husband of ENS, father of J II. | Indian Trail, NC
disabled - cancer
Communicant Member, Precentor | Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte, NC | Presbyterian Reformed Church

zzzzzz ...

Personally I would never join a church that would have me as a member.

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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."

It's the way the Marine Motto is. I recently figured out I had been mis-spelling.

Fine upgrade to an already fine team.

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Lon Wadkins (Jesup, Iowa)
New Covenant Fellowship, OPC
Independence, Iowa

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Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira
Member
Presbyterian Church in Aluminio
Mairinque, São Paulo, Brazil

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Chris Coldwell, Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Dallas, Texas.
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What a blessing - growth and worthy men as overseers!

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-JD

Welcome all. Please clean yer boots before you come in the house, fellers!

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Meg
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Congrats!!!

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

Deo Vindice

all these men will make excellent mods

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

BTW Joshua that is a great Avatar you have got. Best I have ever seen.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

Congratulations!

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John
Member
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Salt Lake City, Utah
www.christpres.net

Thanks for being willing to keep me in line!

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Casey, Chicagoland, OPC

That is a cool avatar! (Back to our program.)

A VERY strong group indeed.

Nobody has taught me more in my three years on the PB than Matthew Winzer and Bruce Buchanan. And since Bruce is already a mod, I am thrilled to see Matthew added.

Dennis and Ruben ooze with practical wisdom.

Daniel and Lane seem to know every in and out of Reformed confessionalism.

Congrats to Chris and Todd as well.

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Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
Husband to a beautiful wife, Father to two beautiful girls
Student at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary - B.D.

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton

absolute power corrupts...almost all the time.
Big brother is now watching.

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Gage Browning (Layman)
Grace Community Presbyterian Church
PCA Fort Worth, Texas

Flee!

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Andrew DeShazo
Husband of Kathryn
Father of Phillip-Giles B. DeShazo
Deacon
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"From out of the depth of unbroken Infinfity arose the Question, "Who am I?" And to that Question there is the answer, "I am God!" -Meher Baba, died 1969.

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Christ, died 33 AD, ressurected three days later.

Daniel Kok: Rich won't save you, Puritanboard! Only my new powers can do that!

Puritanboard: At what cost? You're a good person; don't do this!

Daniel Kok: I won't lose you the way I lost my last board. I am becoming more powerful than any moderator has ever dreamed of, and I'm doing it for you: to protect you.

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Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA

"What sort of pledge and how great is this of love towards us! Christ lives for us not for himself!"
John Calvin, Commentary on the Hebrews (7:25)

One of you Vulcan programming-type-persons need to have "The Boys are Back in Town" playing in the background of this thread.

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Joshua
Riverview PCA
Charleston, WV

"Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings."
- Psalm 17:8

Will the Admins & Mods page be updated so we know this isn't a prank?

Funny you should mention that. When Rich invited me to join the moderators, I initially thought it was an AF joke.

BTW, I'm on the PB and in the middle of a meeting. I am not used to moderator powers yet, and ended up editing your post rather than quoting it. Sorry.

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

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Our own Bawb contributed this:

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I have noticed a mistake in this picture. Surely Matthew Winzer is the one on the far right wearing the blue shirt (as per his Avatar).

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Presbyterian Church of Coventry (PCA)
Coventry, CT
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Still getting the hang of it, eh?

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James Helbert, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
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Surely you made a mistake with Winzer. Not sure if he's all that confessional.

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Chris Rhoades -33
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church (PCA) Nashville, TN-Under Care

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""True theology is not theoretical, but practical. The end of it is living, that is to live a godly life."

I have noticed a mistake in this picture. Surely Matthew Winzer is the one on the far right wearing the blue shirt (as per his Avatar). [/QUOTE]
I agree! The one in blue is Matthew, plus.....look at those cool flinty eyes! He can keep us in line with a LOOK!