The Far Green Country

Well, today is it. After nearly eight years of writing software, I am officially hanging up the compiler. It’s been a good run, and in many ways it is remarkable to me how much I have learned and was privileged to experience during this time. From an onerous beginning writing technical reports, to a height [...]

This past week I was in South Carolina for final exams at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In many ways it was an unremarkable week.  On my way down this past Lord’s Day, I stopped and supplied a pulpit at a PCA church in Hancock, Maryland.  Monday was Hebrew: I got up early to study all [...]

The following is the text of a talk I was privileged to give last evening to the National Honor Society Banquet at my alma mater, Central High School in Martinsburg, PA:
Good evening.  It is certainly my pleasure to be with all of you this evening.  As you already know, I myself am a graduate of [...]

Last weekend I traveled to Philadelphia for a ministerial preparation conference.  At several points along the Pennsylvania turnpike, the road travels directly through the mountains in tunnels.  At one point along my eastward journey, I hit one of these tunnels at the exact time that the song “Big Blue Sky” by Sandra McCracken was playing [...]

Since my trip to Greenville in January, I’ve been listening to the unabridged Chronicles of Narnia on audiobook.  I don’t usually get to listen for long stretches: there is a bit here while I’m driving in the car, or a bit there while I’m doing some rote work like memorizing Greek vocabulary.  But little bits [...]

I used to be in favor of some sort of theistic evolutionary view of creation. In fact, I’ve written about it on this blog a few times in the past.  However, somewhere in the last two years my mind was changed - yet I don’t think I ever got around to stating this publicly.  So [...]

My first term at Greenville Seminary ended this week.  Now that I have caught up on sleep and have some room to breathe, I thought I’d post a few reflections on the term.  I don’t have an outline planned for this post, so the order of the following reflections should not be taken as a [...]

I am not an old man, but I’m ready to die,
I get so discouraged, though I don’t even try.
The doubts and trangressions are many in me;
When I look in the mirror, they’re all that I see.
Is my life but a stage, for the boards to be trod
By the sophists of wickedness, sin, and false gods?
Will [...]

About mid-afternoon yesterday, I began to get a headache. I was trying to do something on the computer, and found that sitting upright was too unbearable. So I went and lay down on the couch for awhile. About an hour later, my son(s) work me up, at which point I decided I [...]

Today is my Dad’s 49th birthday. If you see him, be sure to give him your best wishes. Happy birthday, Dad, from all of us here at Pipe & Pint online. We love you, and hope to see God continue to provide for you abundantly - in both grace and years!