June 2008

 

I have been married for the last eight years to a beautiful and amazingly patient wife named Danielle. Danielle, an elementary education major from Mississippi College, taught  school for six years and currently stays at home with our two boys Hayden (2  ½ years old) and Luke (10 months old).

 

Clinton, MS

 

Mississippi College, Bachelor of Science in Christian Studies, 2001

Beeson Divinity School, Master of Divinity, 2004

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Ph.D. Candidate in Preaching, Currently

Dissertation Title, “A Homiletical Analysis of the Preaching of Franklin Dawes Pollard”

 

Student Minister Briar Hill Baptist Church, Florence, Mississippi (1999-2001)

Associate Pastor Piney wood Baptist Church, Gardendale, Alabama (2002-2004)

Pastor Eastlawn Baptist Church, Pascagoula, Mississippi (2004-2006)

Pastor First Baptist Church, Okolona, Mississippi (2006-2008)

 

Reading, Running, Being disappointed by the Chicago Cubs year after year, and Most importantly, Spending time with my family

 

Perhaps some of the greatest influences in my life have been authors that I have never met but continue to draw wisdom and inspiration. Some of my favorite theological and pastoral influences are C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Eugene Peterson, Brennan Manning, Philip Yancey, John Stott, Fred Craddock, William Willimon, N.T. Wright, and John Piper. In my free time, I love to read the works of Flannery O’Conner, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, and Cormac McCarthy. I also regularly try to fit in preaching books, biographies of great preachers, and good books about the history of baseball.

 

I love all types of music, but in the last six months I have been coming back to artists and bands like Caedmon’s Call, Derek Webb, Steven Delopoulos, Jars of Clay, Paul Simon, Ray Lamontange, U2, Josh Ritter, and Glen Hansard.

 

Life Verse:

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.