Introduction to our website

DESCARTES once said, "I think, therefore I am". I beg to differ, and acknowledging my dependence submit that..."I am created, therefore I am". I owe my very existence to the GOD who is there, and who is not silent. Having received mercy over 34 years ago, my pilgrimage has thus far led me to embrace a theology often referred to as Covenant, or Reformed , and the much maligned doctrine of Calvinism.

It is also important to note that my pilgrimage has, for 30 of those 34+ years, been a shared one. And most recently has involved moving into the city from the suburbs. From '01 to '05 we lived in the Baltimore community known as Barre Circle while worshipping at New Song Community Church (PCA) in Sandtown-Winchester. Then God made it possible for us to move to Sandtown, only a few blocks from New Song, in September of '05. The impetus for this relocation is basically twofold and can be found in the pages here dealing with "My Pilgrimage Continues...a search for Community", which is still under construction (yet to be written).

For now here is some of what caused us to rethink where and how we were living our lives:

First, the fact that 11am on Sunday mornings remains one of the most segregated times of the week in this country...causes us great shame as Christians. When we asked  ourselves the question; Where would Jesus live? The answer was; definitely not in a predominately white suburban neighborhood attending a predominately white suburban Church. For Jesus' prayer to the Father was that we would be one as He and the Father are one. That by this the world would know that the Father had sent him. That's not the case today and as Christians we should all be ashamed. We are, and our shame has caused us to repent and act on correcting it as God provides the grace to do so. It's not any sense of a mission for us but rather an act of repentance and simply trying to do the right thing. For too many years we lived with our complicity in both the racism and economic bigotry that pervades this society. What was it for us to say yes, we loved our neighbors, when we had made sure our neighbors were just like us both racially and economically? If our life was Poker game we'd have been accused of stacking the deck. And yet while we would never cheat at a card game here we were cheating at life. For it may be OK for a real estate developer to talk of a community as being exclusive, but for us as Believers we simply had no business supporting such an immoral concept. We came to see that the price paid for our redemption was far too costly for us to continue to treat it with such contempt.

Second, take a look at this from one of the 3R's of the CCDA:
 

"Living the Gospel means desiring for your neighbor and your neighbor's family that which you desire for yourself and your family. Living the Gospel means bettering the quality of other peoples' lives - spiritually, physically, socially, and emotionally - as you better your own. Living the gospel means sharing in the suffering and pain of others.

How did Jesus love? "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). Jesus relocated. He became one of us. He didn't commute back and forth to heaven."

So come on in, if you have a mind to. Hopefully you find some stuff here to challenge, encourage or perhaps just amuse you. Since this site is a reflection of our lives, like us it will always be a work in progress. So please bear with us.

--- About the music you hear in the background and its special place in my heart ---

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