I am happy be with you. I look forward to learning from Scott, Mike, and the elders, and also from you. You have already been a great encouragement to me! I’m excited to get to know you. In order for you to get to know me a little better, let me tell you some things about me and why it is I decided to begin preaching. I was born in Louisville, KY, and spent most of my years there. My parents are members of the church, as well as my sister (who is one year younger than me). I was blessed to grow up in a family who believes in God and follows Him as He has laid out in the Bible.
I graduated high school and attended Western Kentucky University (WKU) for a year. After spending a year there I decided I did not want to continue with a college degree just yet. I met some of the most wonderful people there, a few of whom are from this church. The way you raised these women and encouraged them along the way has allowed them to become women of outstanding quality.
I want to share some of my hobbies and favorite things because they are also important to who I am. I enjoy playing music. I play both drums and guitar. I also like firearms, shooting them, researching them, holding them, etc. You probably already knew that based on my sermon last Sunday. I enjoy reading a good book, but I enjoy watching a good movie more. Among my favorite things are great food and great friends. It doesn’t take much to entertain me. I love people and it is my hope and prayer that you will see that in my time with you.
It is in large part because I love people that I decided to preach. I’ve always held that option in the back of my mind, but I wasn’t really convicted about it until last year. I had changed my major and still wasn’t sure I wanted to do anything related to it. It began to bother me more and more, as I saw so many people in need of the gospel all around me. That summer I was working on housing for school and realized that I knew what I wanted to do. I wasn’t going back to WKU to do it. I told my family and a small group of friends about my decision to preach and they were all very supportive. Two days after I told at most 20 people about this change, I received a call from Damon Stewart, asking if I would be interested in coming here for a year to work with this church to improve my ability to proclaim God’s Word. Of course I said yes. A few trips down here and some months later, here I am and I thank God for it.
I’d like to leave you with a verse that I have adopted as my motto. “Not that I have already obtained it, or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward for the prize for the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12-14)
-Matthew Arnold
I graduated high school and attended Western Kentucky University (WKU) for a year. After spending a year there I decided I did not want to continue with a college degree just yet. I met some of the most wonderful people there, a few of whom are from this church. The way you raised these women and encouraged them along the way has allowed them to become women of outstanding quality.
I want to share some of my hobbies and favorite things because they are also important to who I am. I enjoy playing music. I play both drums and guitar. I also like firearms, shooting them, researching them, holding them, etc. You probably already knew that based on my sermon last Sunday. I enjoy reading a good book, but I enjoy watching a good movie more. Among my favorite things are great food and great friends. It doesn’t take much to entertain me. I love people and it is my hope and prayer that you will see that in my time with you.
It is in large part because I love people that I decided to preach. I’ve always held that option in the back of my mind, but I wasn’t really convicted about it until last year. I had changed my major and still wasn’t sure I wanted to do anything related to it. It began to bother me more and more, as I saw so many people in need of the gospel all around me. That summer I was working on housing for school and realized that I knew what I wanted to do. I wasn’t going back to WKU to do it. I told my family and a small group of friends about my decision to preach and they were all very supportive. Two days after I told at most 20 people about this change, I received a call from Damon Stewart, asking if I would be interested in coming here for a year to work with this church to improve my ability to proclaim God’s Word. Of course I said yes. A few trips down here and some months later, here I am and I thank God for it.
I’d like to leave you with a verse that I have adopted as my motto. “Not that I have already obtained it, or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward for the prize for the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12-14)
-Matthew Arnold