I'm Hallie's husband, my boys' daddy, and the church planter for Christ Covenant in Culpeper, VA. I'm a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America and a member of the Acts 29 Network.
The older I grow—and I now stand on the brink of eternity—the more comes back to me the first sentence in the catechism which I learned when a child and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes: What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and to enjoy him forever."
For what should you use the doctrine of predestination?
So shall this doctrine [of predestination] afford matter of praise, reverence, and admiration of God, and of humility, diligence, and abundant consolation, to all that sincerely obey the Gospel.
