Barry York

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/2011-rp-camp-logo-copy-c206.jpg] Technology continues to amaze me.  Here I sit at a camp in Iowa in the middle of the woods and I can get

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/weeping-willow.jpg] I hesitate to write about a fresh tragedy.  I prefer to be a silent, weeping observer.  Yet Scriptures come forth along with the

Yesterday I preached a message from Isaiah 54 with the above title.  Saying "when Presbyterians shout" sounds akin to responding to improbable news with "when pigs fly" or that

Behind the scenes here at _Gentle Reformation _we have a running joke about the "Doppelganger virus."  For those who do not know what a doppelganger is, the German literally means "

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/flag_of_south_sudan-svg.png] Last Friday evening, July 7th, we watched fireworks with friends from our front lawn.  As we commented on how they

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mirage2.jpg] Warning: Though I have sought to word carefully this post so as not to be explicit, the nature of the subject means certain

**Gentle Reformation **is happy that three new contributors are coming on board!  In the days ahead you should see their information loading up and contributions coming from them. Here is the briefest of

[http://www.amazon.com/Our-Triune-God-Three---One/dp/1433519879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309306500&sr=8-1] Friend and fellow Gentle Reformation blogger Dr. Michael LeFebvre recently had a new book

Watching a lively thunderstorm roll in Saturday night with my family on the back porch (God's fireworks cancelling the puny ones by comparison planned that evening); drinking Miriam's homemade

I know commandments restricting any behavior are out these days.  I know what's in is counseling removing any shame.  I know youth think anything is allowable except someone telling you certain

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tipsfrontdoorblue.jpg] In answer to prayer and at the urgings of a young man in our congregation, last night our church began door-to-door visitation.  We

Like many of my minister friends, my Sabbath Day was full as I taught a class and preached morning and evening yesterday.  And certainly having a good number of visitors who appear to

In high school my basketball coach, commenting on how skinny I was, said at our senior banquet that "York has to jump around in the shower just to get wet."  Well,

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/normandy.jpg] Our call to worship yesterday was the fourth commandment.  You are to remember the Sabbath Day so you can use the Sabbath Day

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/arrow.jpg] Last night Sycamore Covenant Academy [http://www.sycamorerpc.org/sca/index.html] had a graduation ceremony with just one graduate. Below follows the

When I taught algebra classes and students had to graph parabolas, I enjoyed using that as an occasion to show God's order in His creation.  From the sagging of telephone wires

Following my post of yesterday, the video below was brought to my attention.   As well as thanking God for His Son's revelation, you have to admire this young man's

In the Old Testament Class I teach for our academy [http://www.sycamorerpc.org/sca/index.html], my students were given the assignment this quarter of memorizing a verse from each of the

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/gollum.jpg] When the Lord chooses to keep putting before me a matter again and again in different ways in a short period of time,

My neighbor said it's because I'm getting old, but despite the persecution I keep filling my bird feeders and enjoying watching the visitors coming to our tree.  Yesterday I

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/john_316_01.jpg] Read John 3:16 slowly from the increasingly popular _English Standard Version [http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/English-Standard-Version-ESV-Bible/] _(ESV) translation of

One has testified somewhere, saying, "Every pastor needs a Paul."  (If acknowledging you heard something - but aren't sure where - worked for the author of Hebrews, it works

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/boundary-stone.jpg] As I'll be speaking tonight to a college group about the importance of boundary stones, I thought I'd update