Finally!
Picture courtesy of my dad
My graduation from Sangre de Cristo Seminary was a bittersweet day indeed! Sweet because the culmination of the degree I had started at Southwestern in 1990 was finally completed. Bitter, because after developing wonderful relationships with the three men in this picture, their families, and many others, we had to leave. We loaded up our Penske truck on Tuesday and headed east. As I type this post, we are in Merrillville, Indiana but preparing to go see the Riverwalk in Chicago for the day, then we head to Ohio for one night before going on to Meadville. We’re excited and the drive to accomplish our next goal helps us overlook how tired we are from the miles. Beyond all of that, we do it all for Christ! He is worth it all! That was the theme of my graduation message, “What Really Matters.” When you skim away all the dross of human effort, worldly pleasures, goals and dreams, Christ is the One Who really matters. That was Paul’s perspective, passion and pursuit in Philippians 3:7-14 and it should also be true of us as we follow Him. This will also be the sermon, Lord willing, that I will first preach at St. Paul’s.
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- David and Paula McAfee on Rainbow Trail
Our Story…
David has served in many areas which include serving as an officer in the USMC, law enforcement, information technology, sales and more importantly ministry. He has been a Minister of Single Adults, Minister of Education and Senior Pastor in Lubbock, TX and recently Tucumari, NM. David received a Bachelor of Arts in Law Enforcement Administration, a Master of Arts in Political Science, and has one semester left to complete a Master of Divinity degree. Paula was formerly an executive secretary with Occidental Petroleum, Oklahoma University College of Continuing Education, and Texas Tech University Law School.
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Quote of the Week
“A true knowledge of the covenants is indispensable to a correct presentation of the gospel, for he who is ignorant of the fundamental difference which obtains between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace is utterly incompetent for evangelism. But by whom among us are the different covenants clearly understood? Refer unto them to the average preacher, and you at once perceive you are speaking to him in an unknown tongue. Few today discern what the covenants are in themselves, their relations to each other, and their consequent bearings upon the design of God in the Redeemer. Since the covenants pertain unto the very “rudiments of the doctrine of Christ,” ignorance of them must cause obscurity to rest upon the whole gospel system.” A.W. Pink, The Divine Covenants
Congratulations on this honorable achievement!!!
Thanks Gustavo, we are excited to be in Meadville, Pa.
Dear Dr. Dwight F. Zeller
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Forgive me of my poor English. I can read texts and understand them, but I don’t use your language on a daily basis.
My name is Felipe Sabino, I’m Brazilian and I own a Theological Reformed Christian website in Portuguese language (www.monergismo.com and http://www.monergismo.net.br) and a small Publishing House (www.editoramonergismo.com.br).
Until now, I have published two of Clark’s books: God and Evil and In Defense of Theology.
Now I want to use a picture of Clark in the forthcoming book. Can you get a picture in good quality to me? The people from Trinity Foundation don’t have any good photo and those available in the web are not so good. I would love to receive a few different pictures of Clark. He is my favorite theologian and I “regret” to be only a child when he dead.
God bless you!
Thank you!
Felipe Sabino