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Barry York

Barry York

Sinner by Nature - Saved by Grace. Husband of Miriam - Grateful for Privilege. Father of Six - Blessed by God. President of RPTS - Serve with Thankfulness. Author - Hitting the Marks.

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In Honor of a Baby's Life

March 06, 2012

A young friend of Gentle Reformation, Angie Kim, has a blog of her own called The Teenage Life Club [http://www.theteenagelifeclub.blogspot.com/?view=magazine]and just asked me if I would

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True Professors

March 05, 2012

Having been newly married there; having taught in and graduated from its mathematics department; having been led into my church home and being called into the ministry while there; and having witnessed many

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Counseling Stories

February 28, 2012

With many offering in-depth help in providing counseling, from wonderful sites such as CCEF [http://www.ccef.org/]devoted to the subject toDavid Murray's regular posts [http://headhearthand.org/blog/tag/

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Pleasant Plane Providence

February 22, 2012

On plane trips from Indiana to North Carolina and back this past week, I enjoyed the pleasant providence of God.  Perhaps we often bring to mind  God's providence in darker moments,

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Seasoned with Grace

February 16, 2012

First, use some dry, self-deprecating humor to disarm your audience containing the leading political and religious figures of the day.  Next, state your theme clearly and repeat it in various ways throughout your

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Illuminating the Bible

February 13, 2012

_I wrote t__he article below __f__or our church's outreach newsletter to explain how to read the Bible with more understanding.  __One of the ways I ask the congregation I

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Reformation Indy

February 10, 2012

Our friends at the Southside Reformed Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis [http://ssrpc.org/] have been hosting a _**Reformation Indy **conference the past several years.  These conferences have been a rich time of feeding

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Praying for Light in the Philippines

February 06, 2012

With the combination of seeing the poor do innovative things to overcome their life's difficulties and this taking place in the setting of the Philippines, the video below really touched my

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The City of Firsts

February 03, 2012

In 2008 _Forbes _ranked Kokomo, Indiana (the town in which I pastor) third among America's Fastest Dying Towns [http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/08/towns-ten-economy-forbeslife-cx_mw_1209dying_slide_9.html]

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Good Morning America

9.5 Ounces

January 23, 2012

Watch the video below of how a baby born at just 24 weeks and weighing 9.5 ounces ("less than a can of pop" as the report states) has survived and

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Life Issues

January 20, 2012

Years ago while in college, on January 23rd, which is my birthday, my picture appeared on the front page of an Ann Arbor newspaper.  No, it had nothing to do with honoring my

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Bungee Cord

Proof David Wells is a Prophet

January 16, 2012

Many of you may have heard of the lady whose bungee cord snapped [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/09/tourist-survives-plunge-into-crocodile-infested-waters-after-bungee-cord-snaps/#ixzz1jNQIyjDG] two weeks ago or even seen the video.  Erin Langworthy,

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Christopher Hitchens

Ponderings

January 13, 2012

_Read recently of a godly minister long deceased that, _ though he ministered to multitudes, "avoided sensationalism." Some leading ministers in our day would do well to have such a goal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ _Witnessed

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Tearful Sowing

January 11, 2012

We rejoiced this Lord's Day as a young unmarried couple professed their faith to the elders, joined the church, and communed with us for the first time.  They would not mind

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David Murray

Ad Adieu

January 06, 2012

For those of you who have been following Gentle Reformation for a while, you have probably noticed our new look.  It has taken some doing, and I want to thank Austin Brown especially

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Improving Congregational Singing

January 02, 2012

According to the forty-seventh Psalm, we are to sing the praise of the Lord "with skillfulness."  I will leave the musical instruction side of that commandment, with its pitches, note reading,

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The Empty Chair

December 27, 2011

In my study at the church I have a hexagonal table with four covered chairs on rollers around it.  The table and chairs have been "redeemed."  They used to function as

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The Gospel's Black Backdrop

December 20, 2011

Would we have had the beautiful description of Christ's true deity in the Nicene Creed and Athanasius' _On the Incarnation _if it was not for Arianism?  Would Augustine have spoken

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iPew?

December 06, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cc_icons_06.png] John had noticed that his pastor, for quite some time, had been excited.  A longtime churchgoer, John had never seen him

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GenRef Update

December 05, 2011

_Gentle Reformation _is still in its first year as a multi-author blog dedicated to "speaking the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in its many applications through the media of the internet

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Reflections

November 28, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/reflection10.jpg] I came across these statistics from David Well's book _Losing Our Virtue(p. 44).  _Having studied a large number of modern

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Our Pilgrim Heritage

November 23, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pilgrim-hat.png] This past Lord's Day was a rich one in our congregation.  In the morning we had a baptism of a covenant

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He Left Not the Work

November 17, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/8301437_s.jpg] What if in the late 1800's missionaries were sent to a foreign field and began seeing success? What if in

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Female Heart

November 11, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/women-of-heart-disease.jpg] A few weeks ago, in sharing about speaking at a women's retreat, I used the term "female heart."  Some

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An A Capella Fella

November 01, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sing-off07a.jpg] Often when those of us in the Reformed Presbyterian Church are asked about our worship practices (someone just called me on the phone

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