A Francis Schaeffer avatar. Just my

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There is nothing more ugly than a Christian orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.
-Francis Schaeffer-

Moving to suggestion box.

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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

Do they have to be dead to be avatarized?

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zzzzzz ...

Yes; everyone knows the living can't be advanced to avatar-hood.

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Has Bawb died? He has an avatar.

No, he's live and kickin', eating steaks and drinking beer.

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Ivan R. Schoen, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S.
Pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church (SBC)
Poplar Grove, IL, USA
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Are you sure? He hasn't written much lately. And, with his personality, his posts could keep coming for a few days after death (sort of like fingernails growing on dead people).

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I thought he had a smiley.

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Matthew Poole would be nice.

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Andrew

You know you can just find a picture of the guy and use it, right?

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Mega Dittos on the Francis Schaeffer avatar! It's like being on a stamp, a sign of the person's influence.

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Timothy Johnson
First United Presbyterian of Moline
PCUSA (Yea, I know)
Theology/Philosophy Sunday School Teacher
Davenport, IA

There are a number of Puritans that will be added (when I have the time) before Francis Schaeffer but I appreciate the suggestion.

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Rae,

Could you tell me how? I am profoundly inept...at the computer thing anyway.

Hi nicnap! On the bar at the top of the page, there's User CP. Click on it, and on the left side of page you will see 'Edit Avatar' Click on it. At the bottom of the page that comes up, you will see a custom avatar box. There is a option for url for another website, but I use the upload image from my computer. The browse button works great! I just click on the image on my computer, hit the save changes button, and voila! Your new avatar is on your posts. Enjoy. Francis Schaeffer is good stuff. It's nice to know of a fellow Schaefferite!!

Based on his comments, I think that Timothy would appreciate a Karl Barth Avatar. In my humble opinion, he is not the kind of person who should be avatarized on PB. But, you know Grymir, he is sooooo incorrigible!

Thanks for the idea DMcFadden! Now the question is, which was more annoying to PB members, Rush or Karl?

At least Barth smokes a pipe.

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Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

Larry Norman? Was very sad to hear he went home a couple of months ago

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Eoghan
member,Thurso Baptist Church
Scotland

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interests: holiness (practical theology)
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Is there a Meredith Kline avatar?

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How about Schuller?

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Here are a few that would work Nick. Just right click on the image and hit properties. Then highlight and copy the url in location on the properties screen. Then open your Control Panel on the PB and paste it in your Edit avatar page.

Better pic of Matthew Poole.

Forgot about Bobo. Yeah, out here in California he is the poster boy for Reformed theology. Sure am glad I'm just a confessional baptist! (His son and I were in seminary together but didn't know him.)

If he is reformed, I am jumping ship. Are you serious Dennis? People actually call him reformed? Even though I am part of the RCA, I have been rebuked for insisting to our General Synod to break ties the the Schullerites.

His son is too slick for me to even look at.

This site has a lot of pictures of Christian authors of the past and present.

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Yep, I was just going to suggest that.

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There should probably be some more Baptist choices. Some recommendations off the top of my head would be:

English Particular Baptists who signed the 1689:

Benjamin Keach
William Kiffin
Hanserd Knollys

Southern Baptists:

James P. Boyce
Basil Manly
B.H. Carroll
John L. Dagg

Margaret Wilson, the "teenager who changed Scotland?" Google Image Result for http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/millais/millais_solway.jpg

Too few women represented; we need a good one - and a "Margaret," too... She'd be a great possibility.

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

Margaret Wilson.... Scottish Martyr

Just fooling around, guys, sorry! Of course he is not an exemplar of anything but Bob Schuller.

Amen!

Boyce



Dagg



Carroll



Manly



Pretty tough lookin' bunch, eh?

Gotta love B. H. Carroll's beard. Plus, he was a Confederate, and a Calvinistic Postmil guy. Way cool.

Manly preached to the CSA army. Many of the noted Southern Baptist pastors and theologians ministered to the Confederate army, but I guess that shouldn't surprise anyone.

Regardless, they were men of faith who sacrifice much to establish our seminaries, churches and went on the mission field. We need men like that again in the SBC.

Thanks Pilgrim. I like that link you provided. Lots of good avatars there. Hmmm, what is my mood today?

That's brilliant.

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

We need John Cotton

That is about as bad as an avatar of Benedict XV.

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Stephen Welch
PCA Teaching Elder
Nova Scotia :cheers:

I agree, brother.

Dagg looks like he could eat Finney for breakfast. Evidently Presbyterians are not the only ones who look intimidating.

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John Donne

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I have always thought that Dagg looked like someone you might meet at the OK Corral or in Freud's idea of a last judgment.

Here's Benedict XVI -- to compare with Schuller, using the "International Creepiness Scale."

(Pretty much of a toss-up, if you ask me... )

This is the virtually the only picture I could find of (the former) Josef Cardinal Ratzinger that didn't contain a violation of the 2nd Commandment. (At least, not one that I can see...)

Margaret