On the way to the Battlefield...

We just got back from visiting my wife's clan in Florida. It was a good trip. Yesterday, I took the family to Dade Battlefield, a State Park in Bushnell, FL.

Dade Battlefield is where a group of Seminoles ambushed a column of U.S. Army soldiers under the command of Major Francis J. Dade.

Maj. Dade was cut down in the first volley of the ambush and all but three of the soldiers were killed: one of my ancestors was among the dead. This event sparked the 2ND Seminole Indian War.

As much as I love history and would like to continue writing about Dade Battlefield, that's not the reason why I am writing. It's actually an old fashioned Rant about something that chapped my hide!

On the way to the battlefield, we went through a small Central Florida city named Center Hill. As we traveled through the rural town, my wife spotted a church sign. The sign belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Center Hill. What it said was even more sad that the silly cliches I see on most church signs... This REALLY bugged me.

What was it that bugged me even more than a message saying "Walmart isn't the only saving place."

Get ready...

Here it comes...

The Center Hill Presbyterian Church was advertising the dates and times that they were going to be playing the Transformers Movie and Shrek the Third.

This astonished me. Almost outraged me. I wish I had stopped and taken a picture...

Why not Amazing Grace?

Even a discourse on the Westminster Confession would be nice...

Here's a revolutionary idea: Why not try preach something from the Bible?

"How could a church fall so far?," I asked myself...

Then I did a bit of research on the Center Hill Presbyterian Church and found the answer:

It's PCUSA.

How could I expect anything more?

For churches belonging to this [largely] apostate denomination, Transformers and Shrek are probably more "edifying" than anything that comes from the pulpit...