Posted on July 17, 2010 by pchrismac
You may have noticed that the blog has not seen a lot of udates or articles lately. No, I have not taken the summer off. Things are changing around here.
The weekend of July 4th we made a trip up to Campbellton, New Brunswick. It is located on the northern border, where New Brunswick meets Quebec, on the Restigouche River. We were invited by the congregation of Gateway Assembly. This was our second visit to Campbellton and Gateway, and while there the church voted in favoring of asking us to pastor their congregation. We accepted and will start as the lead pastor of Gateway Assembly on Sunday, August 1.
We are excited to be moving on to a new challenge that fulfills God’s call on our lives. At the same time, we are sad to leave family and friends in St. George. We look forward to what God has in store for us and the city of Campbellton.
With a change in role you might notice some changes to the blog. Topics will be more sermon and issue driven, and focus less on some of my primary themes (e.g. worship). I will continue with book reviews, and will be adding some new regular segments.
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Posted on July 1, 2010 by pchrismac
Today I had the immense privilege of opening our local Canada Day celebrations in prayer. If you missed it or are just plain curious, here it is:
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Posted on May 20, 2010 by pchrismac
The Conservative movement in America curiously finds itself in the spotlight again. After the May’s primaries, several career politicians are finding themselves with nothing to do after January 2011. Prior to that, the state of Massachusetts, long considered a Democrat stronghold, elected a Republican senator to fill the vacant seat of the late Ted Kennedy. People are talking. Questions are being asked. Television and radio news agencies are buzzing. Life seems to be flowing in the veins of the conservative movement again. Life some might attribute to the caffeine from the Tea Party.
Maybe it’s simpler than that. Maybe Conservatism in America is following a pattern or redeveloping, evolving. Since its shaping in the mid-twentieth century, the movement has had its ups and downs. In 1994 the Republicans took control of Congress, but lost it again in 2006. A Conservative sat in The Oval Office for five out of seven terms between 1981 and 2009. But since election night 2008, connecting the Democratic presidential victory with its congressional victor two years prior, political pundits cry the end of conservatism on the horizon. Enter this book by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr: After the Hangover: the Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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