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I like tub baths better than showers. One of the great pleasures of life is a long, soaking, hot tub bath on a wintery day. It’s almost as good as a Miami vacation — but not as expensive! Well, if one is going to take a long, soaking tub bath, it might as well be…

Christmas is a time for music. As I was thumbing through the hymnbook for Sunday’s hymns, I was struck once again that so many of the “great” Christmas hymns are in the minor key. “Joy to the World!” is an exception. Isaac Watts composed it in a major key as a celebration of Jesus’ Kingship…

In the last issue of ARPTalk, I said Chuck Wilson, the Reprobate and Heretic, may his name be cursed by all ARPs, was wrong. Well, yes, he was, but he was also right. Wilson miscalculated the actions of the Executive Board. In refusing to take up and declare the complaint against Second Presbytery by Dan…

Chuck Wilson was WRONG! Can you believe it? Chuck Wilson was wrong! And he’s willing to admit it! In the last issue of ARPTalk (Eller’s Complaint Before the Privy Council of the Hierophants), Chuck Wilson, the Reprobate and Heretic, may his name be cursed by all ARPs, reported that an emergency meeting of the Executive…

Click to read the original Complaint as written by Dan Ellers The moderator of the ARPChurch, Alan Broyles (compliant tool of Pope Kyle Sims, His Fatness, blessed be his name forever, and Patrick Malphrus (the pope’s lapdog) has called for an emergency meeting of the Executive Board of General Synod (that is, the Privy Council…

PDF of the Worship for Lower Long Cane Presbyterian Church Homecoming 2024   Last Sunday (September 15, 2024) was Homecoming at the Lower Long Cane Presbyterian Church. Organized in 1771 as an Associate congregation, (1) we celebrated the 253rd year of the congregation; (2) constructed in 1849, we celebrated 175 years of worship in the…

[Read and view the following before reading ARPTalk (185): “Questions Answered Regarding ARP Seceders” and paying close attention to the video of Andy Putnam speaking at General Synod. ] Click to hear Andy Putnam Lie on the Floor of Synod If you were to ask most ARPs what is wrong with the ARPChurch, they would…

Well, maybe not! In the goings-on around the ARPChurch, we are too old to rumble. About all most of us can do is wobble. However, if we were a Friday Night SmackDown event, I would introduce the participants in this manner: “Ladies and Gentlemen! Let me have your attention! In the top corner, wearing blue,…

Two “called” meetings of Second Presbytery, ARP, took place on Tuesday (August 12) at the Due West ARP Church, Due West, South Carolina. Yes, I said there were TWO called meetings. They occurred back-to-back. The first was CHAOS. The second was BEDLAM. One at 11:00 AM, and the other meeting followed immediately after the first.…

The article below is co-authored by Drs. John Cook and R. J. Gore and was read before the meeting of Second Presbytery by Dr. Cook last Friday (August 16) at the Due West ARP Church, Due West, SC. The article was also placed in the minutes of Second Presbytery and specified for distribution. For you…