The current situation…

Starting deadlift 90 days ago- 135# (prob started a bit light).

Deadlift today- 220#

Thanks to Michael Foster and Ryan Matt Reynolds for the inspiration to get started

I continue to get questions about East River Church’s standing in our denomination, the CREC. It’s a fair question.

In short, a recent change in the CREC’s constitution has resulted in our church’s existing constitution being at odds with the CREC requirements. We need to come…

Boniface Fellowship will allows one of two confessions (WCF & LBC) but will be exclusively credo-communion.

Isalm is fake, fake, fake, etc.

Spurgeon: 'The men who escape without abuse in this world are the men who do nothing at all.'

When it comes to debates….

…you probably didn’t put your finger on the sore spot if someone isn’t accusing you of being abrasive and inappropriate.

Thaw out

I was searching for something in my FB history this morning and saw this again. Still true...

A friend said it well:

“Every church does church discipline. Either it is by the book in the open with honest. Or it is done secretly according to the desires of the leadership with the intent to deceive.”

Will Spencer | Renaissance of Men I actually was thinking about this as it relates to the show you, Michael Foster and I are going to do.

I feel very different about offering help - depending on who needs it - and it’s not the way it should be.

Today is the anniversary of my mother’s stroke due to medical malpractice.

It threw our life into disarray, and eventually took her life.

There is no way we would’ve gotten through it without a strong community supporting us.

Praise God for the local church !

Folks from broken or dysfunctional families, raised on the facade of social media, often lack an understanding of normal boundaries and relational expectations.

Part of church ministry for the foreseeable future will involve helping to 'normalize' individuals in this regard.

I'm glad it was through reading Calvin that I became reformed, covenantal, confessional, and presbyterian. Why? Because Calvin also had a robust doctrine catholicity. John T. McNeill writes:

'Calvin was capable of considerable forbearance toward those suspected of heterodoxy who…

Church discipline is the immune system of the body of Christ.

I don't subscribe to the model of church leadership that sees the senior pastor as the church visionary and the session as existing to realize his vision. This leads to power struggles and unending turmoil in a congregation. It turns an elder-led church into a pastor-led church.…

The church needs to rediscover an anti-fragile model of church (and church planting) that can be sustained in economic downturns and under the reign of more intrusive governments.

This would involve more bi-vocational pastors, more parity in the eldership, fewer programs, more…

In the first 3 days, Boniface Fellowship has received 20 serious inquiries from churches (both baptist & presbyterian) within the proposed bounds.

What is it that destroys the young man in Proverbs 5?

It’s not the immoral woman. She is the only the opportunity or means, not the cause.

Ultimately, the cause is the young man’s lack of discipline.

Note v. 12, the man will come to say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart…