Where Have I Been? And What Brought Me Out of Hiding?

It's been some time, now, since I posted. Some of you may be wondering what I've been up to? Well, to be honest, I have been trying to figure out a direction for my life, while relocating to Hinckley, MN, and looking for work. I have been relatively successful with the last two, but the former has yet to be decided. I have also added more business to my life by applying to a truck driving school to obtain a CDL. I hope to finish the truck driving school in four weeks. If I graduate successfully, then I should be starting orientation and hopefully working with one of several companies I am prehired with. I should also mention that any moment my wife Crystal will be giving birth to our third child. Today is her due date, but so far nothing has happened, but it should be any day now if not sooner.

During this time, I have been doing a lot of thinking and reading about covenant theology, and am working on a short work I've creatively entitled A Brief Overview of Covenant Theology, along with a treatise defending the Covenant of Works. I hope to bring some of my thoughts on covenant theology to this blog soon.

Well, now you know a little bit about where I've been; let me tell you about what brought me out of hiding. Pastors Wes White and Brian Carpenter, those brave contenders of historic Reformed truth, have been at it again writing some poignant and powerful posts about the happenings within their Siouxlands Presbytery and the PCA at large. You can go read their blogs for yourselves; just click on either "The Happy TR" or "Johannes Weslianus" in the right hand column of this blog to be linked to their sites. I'm not here relating anything of what they said. I just simply wanted to go on record saying, how much I really appreciate these two men. I don't know half of what they've had to endure from men within their own presbytery, but from the little bits I've seen I can say that they have sure endured a lot. Lesser men might have given up the fight long ago, but not these men. They are filled with the terror of the Lord. Just the very thing that separates the men from the pansies. They seek to please the Lord, not their fellow men. They embody everything that was good about the Reformation. I know that the Lord will use them mightily. I do not say that in all things they have not sinned, but they would not say that they are sinless either. They are sinners, but they are sinners who are righteous by the blood of Christ alone. But they are righteous sinners who stand for truth in an area where it is not popular to do so, and for that I praise them.

My reason for coming out of hiding, however, was not to write an encomium of the acts of Pastors White and Carpenter. It has come to my attention from an unnamed source that one of my blog posts might be used against one of them. This is the blog post, I believe, that is in question. I imagine that the issue is not so much with the post as it is with the title, which is "Presbyterianism or Shenaniganism?" The issue at stake is that Pastor White linked to this post on his blog, and now someone is suggesting that he may be in violation of the fifth commandment. I presume that since I inferred that the January meeting of the Sioux. Pres. resembled more shenaniganism rather than true presbyterianism this is thought by some as a violation of the fifth commandment. Well, if it was, then I am the one to blame, not Pastor White. He simply linked to my blog in order to give his readers an idea of what is being said on other blogs. He in no way gave his assent or approval about what I said. Furthermore, no one from the Sioux. Pres. has confronted me about being in any violation. I have been told by some to reconsider posting it. I have also been told that I need to be careful about what I say, but NO ONE has confronted me about violating the fifth commandment. If pastor White should be accused that he is in violation of the fifth commandment, then it should be established, 1st. that I have violated the fifth commandment, and 2d. that Pastor White has approved of my actions. This must be done in that order. If this is not carried out in this order then those who wish to accuse Pastor White of violating the fifth commandment are in danger of lending credence to my inference that the tactics of some in the Sioux. Pres. resemble more shenaniganism than presbyterianism.