Member Testimony – To start, thank you to Rob and Joel for inviting me to share my testimony with TPC today. The process was thought-provoking and forced me to think of several times where I thought God was at work in my life. Two Memories testimony by Tim Burkett Sunday, October 20, 2019 I want…

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If I look at my own faith journey my earliest conscious memory was when I entered Catholic elementary school. I remember being introduced to God and Jesus through the Baltimore Catechism which for the uninitiated is a book that tries to answer big questions with simple answers-  Who is God, Where is God, What is…

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It was a compromise, really. Julie was raised Christian Scientist. I was a devout Catholic, altar boy, St. Anne’s School, the whole bit. As we dated, I went with her to her church…and she went with me to mine. Double duty Sunday mornings. One day, it occurred to us that whether you were praying in…

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I first learned about God through my mom—listening to her and watching her. She was a woman of faith for sure. She loved both God and the Church. And she struggled with them both. I believed in God and God’s love for me, because she did. I believe God reached out to me through her…

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I like turtles. I had a pet turtle as a child. Nothing special, probably a box turtle but I’m not sure. They were one of the few wild animals I could actually catch. My sister and I could make a day of it collecting turtles on my grandparent’s small farm. The phase that’s often associated…

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Christian Thermodynamics S = k logW Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was…

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I was honored when Joel and Rob asked me to present my “testimony” this morning, particularly since its Father’s Day. But today I won’t be talking about either my father or my son. I grew up in Erie, PA in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, a time when less than 10% of the county’s…

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I’m Katie Cashin and I’ve been attending Towson Presbyterian Church for three years, have been a member for two and today, before I share with you a snapshot of my faith journey, we need to understand three things about me. The first is that I’m a recovering first born and while I’m usually fine, I…

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