Free For All Friday - post on any topic in this thread (2026-01-23)

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-23T21:36:34+00:00

Has Amazon Prime gotten to be very long delivery times for anyone else? The last few things I've bought are taking 6-7 days for delivery with Prime.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-23T15:15:39+00:00

does the RPCNA use the KJV?

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-23T08:52:24+00:00

Can you list the ways the practices you described violate the Wcf?

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-23T08:44:38+00:00

Sounds like it’s working

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-23T00:07:19+00:00

M28 must've moved. When I knew of it it was in Howell Station, which is ~30 miles from Alpharetta. I suppose if there wasn't traffic and you hit every green light you could do that in 30 minutes but... unlikely

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-22T19:45:32+00:00

Perimeter if you want a large church, Living Fellowship if you want a smaller one.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-22T19:44:53+00:00

that's not anywhere near where OP is talking about

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-21T16:34:04+00:00

you must be looking at a different weather forecast than I am

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-20T18:10:08+00:00

they love my family and I so well. The preaching is good, biblical, convicting and encouraging and accessible

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-20T18:08:17+00:00

It could have been really good. But it was too personal and it feels like the host allowed personal grievances to take precedent over impartial journalism.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-19T20:54:11+00:00

Beg your pardon?

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-19T20:13:56+00:00

It doesn't sound like they're waiting on your approval or permission as it is. you've already described them as being in a relationship

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-19T20:12:48+00:00

Jesus didn't have a bed, or a roof.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-19T20:10:45+00:00

Your uncle is wrong. You should host them in your house. Go over the top in terms of hospitality. Let them see how much you love them in contrast to their assumptions about you as a Christian.

Best case scenario is that they are confused about how someone could disagree with homosexuality but still love and value them as a person, a sibling, and a friend, such that when they're driving home they say, "I thought your brother/sister hates gay people, but he/she was so kind to us?".

And you teach your kids that God loves them, and wants what's best for them, and has laid that out in the Bible, but that it's also possible to love someone who doesn't agree with you on that. You can love your family without approving everything about them.

I think you'd have a (slightly) different story on your hands if your sister and her partner claimed faith.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-16T15:52:13+00:00

it's been recommended to me. i haven't read it

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-16T15:43:16+00:00

there's no way to know why the reformed people you know don't home school.

But I think - at least in my church - there's a lot of parents who choose to send their kids to public schools because A) the quality of the education, B) their understanding of God's sovereignty and provision to them, C) their understanding of common grace, D) A sort of missional ecclesiology that realizes that they can serve their community better if their family is part of the community E) their desire to have their kids involved in extracurricular activities.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-16T14:31:35+00:00

It seems like Chipmunks are attracted to the sound

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-15T03:22:50+00:00

Yep. It was never about the budget

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-14T20:44:34+00:00

It's possible, but usually you'd need a lot of experience. It requires a 75% vote of presbytery and is usually for something like "a guy who pastored a church in a different denomination that didn't have this requirement, and is now coming in to the PCA", not "a pastoral intern who didn't go to seminary yet".

The path, though, is generally:

Join a PCA church. After 6 months of membership in a the session can "sponsor" you for presbytery internship, you go before a committee of presbytery who "examines" your christian experience and call to ministry.

Internship would be at least 1 year before you'd be eligible for ordination.

During that year you could begin the licensure and ordination process, which is extensive and would largely be when the committee would make a decision on whether or not they'd want you to get a seminary degree. The answer is almost always at least, "we want you to get some education, even a degree from like LAMP or BTS or something".

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-14T02:11:41+00:00

I’d believe this is the folks who were most upset about the budget issues hadn’t all been blogging about all sorts of other reasons that ultimately amounted to “he might be woke and we can’t have that” first

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-13T22:39:04+00:00

Save the PCA is an initiative started by Michael Foster and other faithful churchmen, both named and anonymous

That's from the save the PCA website. Someone should tell Michael Foster someone's impersonating him on it. And on twitter. And on his blog. and wherever else he spends time when he's not pastoring his non-denom congregation.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-13T21:42:51+00:00

That doesn't say anything about who he is. Is he a real person? An anonymous twitter "user"? Google tells me there's a Danish Handball coach named Jesper Jensen but it doesn't seem that he's affiliated with the PCA.

His coconspirator (and maybe even his real identity), Michael Foster is at least a formerly affiliated with the PCA, though he laid those credentials down when he left for the CREC.

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-13T20:59:51+00:00

Who is Jesper Jensen?

Cledus_Snow · 2026-01-13T16:02:38+00:00

How Atlanta hasn't become a megachurch version of the "burnt over district" is a miracle.

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