School Stuff

B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1 August 2003, from Georgia Tech
B.A. in Natural Science with Mathematics minor, cum laude, from Covenant College

I'm working full time with Volkert as a civil engineer.

Autumn semester 1998 I studied at Northeast University in Qinhuangdao, China, and during the autumn 2000 I studied at the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland.

Personal Stuff
churches | music | ministries | work | friends | drinks & food | books | theology | technical

churches

First Presbyterian of Fort Oglethorpe is my home church. Its part of the Presbyterian Church in America. Since my family moved down here they've become members here.
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church is the denomination in which I was blessed to grow up. Their website has lots of really neat stuff on it, including the texts of all the hymns from the original Trinity Hymnal, articles from New Horizons and Ordained Servant, the Westminster Standards, and the OPC Book of Order.
St. George's Tron Parish Church is the church I worshipped with while I was in Scotland during the autumn semester of 2000. Dr. Sinclair Ferguson and Rev. John Rushton preached on Sundays, expositing the Word and ever pointing us to Jesus.
Faith Presbyterian Church (PCA) This church website lots of sermons that I'd like to read. I just recently was told about this site by a friend in Scotland. Robert Rayburn is the pastor.

music and such

Martyn Joseph Martyn Joseph is a Welsh musician my friend David Roworth introduced me to in Scotland.
Indelible Grace Music Indelible Grace is a band that has recorded new tunes to classic hymns, and they are doing an excellent job.
The RUF Hymnbook online This is all the hymns in pdf- lead sheets, overhead transparencies, chords & words, and just words. Indelible Grace discussion board
Katy Bowser Katy is a songwriter who is involved in the Indelible Grace band, who I met at the Indelible Grace worship conference, and has two CDs, 'Laryngitis' and 'Longing', both of which are great..
www.christopherminer.com is Chris Miner's website for his CD, 'The Calm of Paradise', which is a colection of new tunes he's written for old hymns. He writes singable melodies and play;'s them simply with his guitar- some would say his tempo is too slow, but it make learning the tunes easier, and the slower tempo has grown on me.
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary has Adobe Acrobat scans of hymns with the music- including the Southern Harmony, an early Sacred Harp collection.
Hymnology This website has lots of resources for studying hymns, both on their site and extensive links to other sites.
original Trinity Hymnal This page has the full lyrics of the hymnal in searchable form, as a pdf document, and has MIDI files for the hymns.
artsreformation.com is food for thought concerning reforming the arts.
pastemusic.com These guys are providing their website to independent artists as a distribution point. They've got a lot of good artists, including Martyn Joseph, and two I've discovered more recently: Kate Rusby and Susan Enan.
Swedish and Irish folk tunes
Richard Robinson's Tunebook has tons of traditional tunes, Scottish, Irish, Swedish, etc.
Anglo-Genevan Psalter
Spindleworks
Music notation links

ministries

The Boardwalk Chapel This is an evangelistic minsitry of the Presbytery of New Jersey (OPC) in Wildwood, NJ. I spent the summer there in 1999 as a staff member, putting on evening programs and evangelising on the boardwalk.
David and Eowyn Stoddard
The Stoddards are missionaries to east Berlin my home church supports, and I wanted to include a link to their personal page here.
MTW Sweden Team
I met David & Stacy Bergmark at the MTW missions conference in Atlanta, November 2002, and have been praying for their ministry in Sweden.
www.stoerydskyrkan.org is the website for Stoerydskyrkan (Stoeryds church) in Tranås, Sweden, which the MTW Sweden Team has been working to help establish.
http://web.mac.com/hacquebord.h Heero and Anya Hacquebord are part of the MTW church planting team in L'viv, Ukraine.

work

Volkert & Associates is the company I worked for summer 2002, January through August 2001, and summer of 2000. I worked in their Chattanooga office, mostly doing traffic signal design work and highway design.
Killam Associates I worked summer of 1999 with Killam Associates at their Cape May office while I was at the Boardway Chapel. This was my first job with an engineering company.

friend's websites

Ethan Farquhar's homepage Ethan is one of the guys I've lived with while at Georgia Tech. He's married now, so he moved out of our house.
David Graham's homepage
Tim Larson's homepage Tim is a good friend I know from Covenant College and also from church in Atlanta.
Dave Larson's homepage Dave is my roommate here at Tech.
Nae Soundara's homepage Nae was one of the guys I spent a semester with in Scotland, autumn 2000.
Jeremy Stevenson's homepage Jer was on chapel staff with me; he's now studying engineering at Rowan University in New Jersey.
Dustin Radford's website
Joel Harrison's homepage Joel is Jer's brother in law, and has lots of helpful links on his site.
Bob & Michelle Wiegers
Andy & Lynn Perkins

drinks and food

www.raretea.com is a growing site about rare teas sponsored by Greyfriar's Coffee & Tea Co. on Broad St. in Chattanooga, TN.
Bouvrage Raspberry Drink is perhaps the best tasting raspberry drink I've ever had. I only had it once, in Scotland while I studied there during the autumn 2000 term.
Fraoch makes a number of historic Scottish ales, including Grozet (a Gooseberry ale) and Alba (a Scots pine ale introduced to Scotland by the Vikings). I found these ales at the local Fresh Market.
Ale81 is a soft drink with a long story... the short form is that in my various and sundry travels I happened upon this drink in Kentucky, quite by mistake, and found that I sort of like it. If you really want to know more email me.
Turkey Hill
This is some of the best ice cream in the Northeast.
Mayfield Dairy
And this is some of the best ice cream in the South.

books and things literary

www.abebooks.com
www.GoodTheology.com
Gutenberg Bible High quality digital images of every page from the Gutenberg Bible.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library is an incredible and growing compilation of tons of Christian books in electronic format- text, html, and pdf. This collection is housed (I think) at Calvin College, and holds everything from the Chruch fathers to more recent classics. It also has a collection on hymns at the end of the Author Index, and a few fiction titles.

theology

Puritan Sermons
A website housing sermons by the Puritans, as well as poetry and other historical information.
The Jonathan Edwards Institute is an organization that organizes an annual conference in Annapolis, MD, and has some other ministries in the Princeton, NJ, area. I worked with one of the men who started the JEI the summer I was at the Boardwalk Chapel.
The Upper Register is a website devoted to understanding the nature of the Law-Gospel contrast in covenantal, biblical theological, and redemptive historical context. I believe this website is maintained by Lee Irons, an Orthodox Presbyterian pastor in California. I might mention that I've read some Vos and Gaffin, and I think that biblical theology has many insights to offer in balancing our understanding of systematic theology, but I am also concerned that some proponents of biblical theology, in their zeal to find Christ on every page of scripture, are not applying scripture's moral imperatives in their preaching. Biblical preaching must point believers to Christ and apply the text to their contemporary lives.
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals is a broad coalition of evangelical Christian leaders from a number of different denominations, including Baptist, Independent, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Reformed. Our purpose is to call the church, amidst our dying culture, to repent of its worldliness, to recover and confess the truth of God's Word as did the Reformers, and to see that truth embodied in doctrine, worship, and life. ModernReformation.org is the website housing the Modern Reformation magazine, which is a publication of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
www.Kerux.com Kerux is the the journal of Northwest Theological Seminary, and it focuses on biblical-theological material.
Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics This is another incredible site, with lots of information, including entire electronic versions of books such as Calvin's Institutes and Machen's Christianity and Liberalism, and resources such as the debate between Greg Bahnsen and atheist Gordon Stein.
www.johncalvin.com
Ars Disputandi

technical stuff

Creative Commons is an alternative to traditional copyright for creative works, based somewhat of GNU GPL.
The Hoefler Type Foundry is a New York design studio specializing in the development of original typefaces. Looking through their catalog I found some beautiful typefaces, but the price to download them is inhibitive ($299).
www.myfonts.com sells a wide collection of fonts, and occasionally has some for free downloading.
Quark XPress is pretty powerful publishing software, which I scratched the surface of a few years ago using it to design our 84 page catalog for my parent's book business.
LaTeX2e documentation This is in .pdf format, a documentation of a macro package which enables authors to typeset and print their work at the highest typographic quality. You'll need Adobe Acrobat to open this.
Ulrich Harsch This is a cool web site in terms of its layout. If you click on the .net link, and then on the die bibliothek it takes you to a part of his site that's in Latin, but has texts of classic literature in its original languages. (and yes, one of them is in English).
Microimages.com A link to the folks that make MicroImages X Server, which is what's used in the labs at Covenant.
Strong bad
Manage my Active-domain account my musings


Joel's homepage.