Good Lord's Day to everyone. We worshiped at First Presbyterian Church for our first Lord's Day in Jackson Mississippi. The residing minister this morning was the Rev. Derek Thomas originally from Wales, Derek Thomas is the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the Jackson campus of RTS. After pastoring for 17 years in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Dr. Thomas returned to the USA in 1996 where, in addition to his work at the seminary, he serves as the Minister of Teaching at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson.
The service was very delightful. Although a few key elements were missing from the liturgy, IMO - confession and forgiveness of sins, confession of faith, reading of God's Law and How Shall We Now Live. For those that know me a service without these elements would come as a shock and did. Nevertheless, a very Theocentric service to say the least and a solid PCA too boot. Communion is only served several times a year which is a little hard to understand coming from it being served every Lord's Day.
We will be attending this evenings service at First Presbyterian as well. We are not sure where we will be making our church home while we are in Jackson but we thought this would be a good start. We have no plans to transfer our membership from the United Reformed Church to a local PCA, as of yet. But we do trust our Lord will guide us even in this.
To the praise of His great power and might,
Chris Rehers
P.S. Miss the fellowship of His saints in Big Bear and Apple Valley greatly.
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We miss y'all too. THis last Lord's day was pretty cool. We had somewhere around 30 people. There were a lot of visitors. That's one thing that the baptists don't get...there is 5 other baptist churches to choose from, but there is only one Reformed church. Therefore, we get all the visitors. I hope you find a good church to get settled into.
Oh yeah...I found some good and cheap cigars up here. They are rejects, but man! they are good. I would rank them right up there with the best we've smoked, just poor construction is all. And that's not all, they are only 1.99=) They look and taste like cohibas.
Very nice to hear. I have been dealing with a hefty load of drama down here over the last two days...too much to get into now but man oh man the theological climate down here is hostile!
Cigar seconds are nice...poor construction can play into the test but more often than not it will be ok. But poor construction can happen with a Super Premi that past the test...like the other day I had a real nice one that had its binder pop off when the shaft got a little hot...doe! Not good...no draw...no taste.
Chris
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