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What is God teaching you in this season of life?
This season is very busy. At times it can feel overwhelming or weary. The Lord is teaching me to rely on Him. I have a tendency to rely on my own strength and I’m thankful He has me in a position where I have to turn to Him. He’s also teaching me contentment and patience in my season of singleness. It can feel like a desert in the reformed dating circles (I’m sure many of you can relate) but I have to remind myself that God will either provide a husband or change my desire for marriage, that I need to find my delight in the Lord alone. “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4 ESV
What is something unique about yourself that no one would ever guess?
I grew up bowling. I hated it when I was a little kid but my choices were to either bowl on the league, or sit still and watch my brother bowl. So, bowling it was. I ended up enjoying it as I got older, bowling competitively in high school, earning some scholarships and bowling on a college team for a couple of years. I did continue bowling in a league after college for a while but I have not done so for quite a while. It was a good sport for me growing up but now I’m into strength training.
What are you passionate about?
I’m passionate about Christ and my relationship with Him. He is all that matters. He is all I really have and need. I fail daily but He is steadfast. I’m thankful for the trials He has put me through in order to grow me. I still have much to learn but I know He is faithful to teach and sanctify me as I stumble forward. “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
If you could have dinner with three people, living or deceased, who would they be?
How about four people? I have a five, almost six month old niece, she is the first grandbaby from our side of the family; I love her to death. I would love to have dinner with her and both of my deceased grandfathers and deceased grandmother. I miss these grandparents and I would get a kick out of seeing them meet and interact with my niece while she is still a baby. I know they would love her deeply and have so much fun together!
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What is God teaching you in this season of life?
I’m learning to be patient and content. I recently moved away from my hometown to a neighboring state. Living almost four hours away from my family and friends back home has taken some time to get used to. As I work on integrating into my new church home and making connections here in Michigan, I’m learning more to wait upon God and be content with the blessings he has given to me. I’ve found reflecting upon eternity to be particularly helpful, thinking about the perfect communion I will have with the Lord.
What is something unique about yourself that no one would ever guess?
I have a fairly strange middle name: Clemente. I’m named after my dad’s favorite baseball player, Roberto Clemente, who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1970s and is in the Hall of Fame. I didn’t really inherit his love for the sport (or any other sport for that matter), but I do like my middle name.
What are you passionate about?
I am passionate about the regulative principle of worship. This is a doctrine that states that the acceptable manner of worshiping God is prescribed by him alone, and that we are not free to bring our own inventions into worship. Basically, rather than an "anything not forbidden is permitted" approach to worship, it is "anything not prescribed is forbidden." This doctrine is found in Scripture as the outworking of the 2nd Commandment, more fully explained in Deuteronomy 4, and by the negative example of Nadab and Abihu, who offered up strange fire to the Lord, which he did not command. I am passionate about this because many portions of the Protestant world today have brought many inventions into worship, and are in need of serious reform in this area. I spent my younger childhood years in a megachurch that had a concert every Lord's Day that they called worship, and I have found so much more joy and fullness in the simple worship God prescribed for us in the New Covenant administration.
If you could have dinner with three people, living or deceased, who would they be?
The Apostle Paul comes to mind immediately, as I would love to ask him about various things in his epistles and get some more data on what the Christian church looked like in the first century. I would like to meet with one of the Scottish covenanter martyrs, like Richard Cameron, to hear more about his story and the trials faced by my Scottish Presbyterian forefathers during the late 17th century. As far as living people go, I would enjoy having dinner with President Trump and explaining to him the gospel, and calling him to repent from working to substantially reduce the cost of in-vitro fertilization, effectively condemning countless children to death, and many others to a life spent stuck in a freezer indefinitely.
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