The 88th General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church meeting in August of 2025 voted 37-5 to apply for membership in NAPARC (North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council). This decision may be a surprise to some who know the BPC for its history of ecclesiastical separation. But a review of Synod records shows that the
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Hey —–, Your mom said that you would be interested to know more about the subject of forgiveness from the Bible. I was just preaching a sermon from the Gospel of Matthew in which Jesus healed a paralyzed man after saying, “Take heart, my son, your sins are forgiven.” This was a striking statement to
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Maple (age 6) singing “Over in the Meadow.” Birch (age 4) answering interview questions. Evergreen (age 1) saying no to all my questions.
Recordings of Maple, Birch, and Evergreen Read More »
Men like to argue, especially online, and especially about firewood. Its an opportunity to let people know that you know about BTUs and Husqvarna chainsaws and the absolute best way to stack firewood. So naturally this is a fiercely opinionated subject; how to dry firewood. I’ve tried a number of approaches over about 8 years
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Everything is easy with the right tools, but you’re probably not going to want to buy a $10,000 sawmill setup to cut just a few boards. So how do you do it? There are lots of ways, and they will be tedious, but it could work. If you’re like me, you want to “use every
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A couple years ago I researched extensively on “Meeker’s Meeting House” aka Westtown Meeting House which existed in the late 18th century and early 19th century near the border of New York and New Jersey and is the parent church of a few others in the area. The information I found was scarce but sufficient
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One of my favorite and most successful projects here at Sola was the building of a greenhouse. While the project idea had been floating around my head for a while, I was spurred on one day when I came upon a bunch of used windows for free. A husband and wife couple in the nice
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I broke out the old excel to make some charts to better see the trends in the PCUSA (Presbyterian Church USA) since it took that name in a merger in 1983 and until today. Anyone who knows anything of American Presbyterianism knows that the PCUSA is a liberal group and has suffered massive declines over
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Well, you can drive down to the Dollar General and buy yourself a 3-liter of off-brand high-fructose corn syrup root beer. Or, you can do better. Here’s how you do better. Making sassafras root beer at home. The tools you’ll need for this are a knife, bowl, pot, stove, sieve, and spoon. The ingredients you’ll
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[This is the first in a series of articles I intend to write. Check back later for articles on making sassafras root beer, drying firewood, picking berries, and various other subjects.] I did a lot of research before building a fence around my yard. Like so many subjects, fence building brings out a variety
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