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  • TPC: Building for the Future (notes from the 10/15/23 congregational meeting)

    TPC: Building for the Future (notes from the 10/15/23 congregational meeting)

    These are some notes summarizing a recent presentation at a TPC congregational meeting, laying out plans for a long term building project. The session recently formed a building committee to develop a master plan for our property that ties into our vision for our congregation as a whole. When we purchased this property, we knew Read more

  • The Narcissism of Today’s Pop Culture: Falling in Love with Someone Other Than Yourself

    The Narcissism of Today’s Pop Culture: Falling in Love with Someone Other Than Yourself

    I commented on the Barbie movie, so I guess I’m also obligated to comment on Taylor Swift too, right? I thought this article was very interesting and insightful. Like Hemingway, I am a Gen Xer, though his knowledge of more recent pop culture definitely exceeds mine. My knowledge of pop culture peters out pretty quickly after about Read more

  • Pearcey Review (Summation)

    Pearcey Review (Summation)

    Nancy Pearcey seems like a wonderful, delightful, and godly woman. She is obviously brilliant and she is totally devoted to the defense of the Christian faith in the public square. In her new book on masculinity, it’s clear that she appreciates men/masculinity and wants to defend Christian men against unfair accusations. To be honest, I Read more

  • Pearcey’s Toxic War on Masculinity

    Pearcey’s Toxic War on Masculinity

    The whole generation is womanized, the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it’s a feminine hysterical, chattering, canting age. — Henry James (1886) Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under Read more

  • Go to Church or the Devil Will Get You

    Go to Church or the Devil Will Get You

    Just a reminder. Read more

  • The Greatest Show on Earth (Lord’s Day Exhortation)

    The Greatest Show on Earth (Lord’s Day Exhortation)

    This is the Lord’s service for the Lord’s people on the Lord’s Day, as we hear Lord’s Word and feast on the Lord’s Supper. Liturgy is the greatest show on earth –  and that’s because it’s not a show on earth, it really takes place in the heavenly sanctuary. Mystically, spiritually, by faith, when we Read more