The Far Green Country

After a long day of driving yesterday, I finally this morning set foot for the first time on the campus of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (GPTS). The seminary is located in a renovated former public school.  This school year will be the first year of operation out of the new facilities (click on the picture [...]

I just got an email update… my dividend miles have broken 70k!  Have I really flown this much?

Apparently, that’s how many frequent flyer miles I have racked up from my 5+ years of jet-setting.

Over the past week, I’ve put in about 400 miles of driving and about 4000 miles of air travel. To the airport in the car. Across the country in a jet. From the airport to company HQ in the rental car. A week later: back to the airport in the rental [...]

This Lord’s Day was a great blessing to me. It was the first Lord’s Day that I have ever spent in Redlands. Until late Saturday night I had planned on attending worship at a local Protestant Reformed Church - the closest thing I thought I could find to an OPC congregation (though the [...]

This week I am in California for a week at company headquarters.  I have mixed feelings about these trips, which I take periodically.  On the one hand, they are like forced retreats. I have no family to spend time with in the evenings, and so no excuse not to catch up on my mountain of [...]

It’s so easy to hold our beliefs when we’re at home, surrounded by people and places that we’ve known for most of our lives. In such circumstances, it requires little thought to acknowledge the sovereignty of God over all spheres of life. It’s easy because, in our own little provinces, we are pretty familiar with [...]

So this is the view while walking to work… jealous?