Travel

If you know Elliot Huck and would like to follow his travelogue in Spain, here's the blog where he's posting his pics and descriptions. Beautiful.

Mary Lee and I flew into Seattle, yesterday, and on our way down to Vancouver, WA, we stopped at Mt. Rainier National Park. We drove up to Paradise which is above the tree line, then hiked up a couple trails, starting with the Alta Vista Trail where this pic was taken.

It was a beautiful Fall day with bright sunshine. We didn't see or hear any elk herds. Glacier National Park was much better for that. But what majesty, telling atheists and Christians alike of God's great glory!

When we got to Paradise two fox--one red and one black--were hanging with one huge raven. They were all begging.

The were twenty or so cross-country skiers coming off the mountain when we started up the trail. The sun set while we were up on the mountain. When we got back to the car almost eveyone was gone. (TB)

CTW's former associate pastor, Andrew Dionne, as of today is the newly installed pastor of Trinity Church (PCA) in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Here's Andrew leading the rhythm section of Christ the Word's band a few months ago. Click the photo to see his enthusiastic sense of rhythm.

Andrew will be a rich blessing to the work of Trinity Church PCA Spartanburg. Tim and I encourage you to visit Trinity if you're looking for a church in the Spartanburg/Greenville area. You'll find a church where the people are warm, the preaching is pointed and convicting and the Holy Spirit's power is valued as much as theological precision.

And here's a picture from tonight's installation with members of the Calvary Presbytery commission in the front pew, including our friend Joey Pipa.... (DB)

It cost him $434 to build. In two years the Chinese will be selling them for $250 and Dean Kamen will be depressed. I want one, Joseph. (TB)

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed.’” All the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”

Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, “Behold now, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”

But Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I shall speak.” (1 Kings 22:11-14)

(Tim) The purpose of seminaries today is to place their students in good jobs as pastors of good churches. But we live in an evil day when search committees want to hire men who will make a good show of honoring God and His Word while bending the Word at those places where the church's leaders are hard-hearted.

Say, for instance, the church has lots of women who have left submission to their husbands and service to their homes and children for submission to their bosses and service to their businesses and customers. Such a church will seek to hire a pastor who knows better than to preach on the Holy Spirit's sex-specific commands of Titus 2:3-5, that the older women are to teach the younger women to "workers at home" who are "subject to their own husbands." No one on the Search Committee will actually say it, of course--it's too important to be said.

So, search committee's doing what search committee's do, the secretary contacts Harvard Divinity School and asks for resumes. And when, depending on the church's building and location and terms of call offered, ten or two-hundred and fifty resumes arrive, the process of evaluating how precisely this or that man will posture himself between faithfulness to God and sensitivity to his congregation's hard hearts begins...