Our pastor has recently started a blog. You can go to the following website: http://www.wpcajax.org/news or click on the link in the list of the blogs on the right. Here is a snippet:

"All of these characteristics go against the flow of our society. If we flourish, it can only be by Your blessing. O, Lord, how long can I, can we, continue to endure this swim against the tide of contemporary culture?

"You have need of endurance... My righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him." (Heb. 10:35-39)

I need mental and spiritual toughness, not to forsake the way, to give in, as Francis Schaeffer used the term, to "accommodation" with the world.

O, Lord, is it worth being that different? But which one of the 8 things listed above can be negotiable and we still remain Biblically faithful? Are any of those characteristics optional in Your eyes?

On the other hand, Father, I can err with a prideful Elijah-like complex, ‘We're the only ones left.' No, You preserve a remnant of Your choosing that does not bow the knee to Baal.

Strengthen me, strengthen us, in faithfulness. We will reap a harvest of righteousness in due season if we do not give up."