Teaches Latin & NT Greek...Edits Video...Loves to Cook, Too!
Male
60
6’3” - 6’4” (189cm - 193cm)
Medium
Missouri
63143
United States of America
26. Charleston, SC, during a back problem, while a secular radio broadcaster. Started reading my Bible and querying with myself that if I believed there was a God (I did), and if I believed in Jesus Christ (I did), then what did this God have to say to me right then? The quotation marks fell off the title of the Book "God's Word," and I had my answer: God's word(s) to ME! Pure TRUTH!! I knew I would have to either believe it all or not at all! I also knew from Heb. 6:4-6 that if I rejected the Gospel at that juncture, there could very possibly be no bringing me back to a point of repentance. God (even before I knew I was a Calvinist) was saving me by His "irresistable grace." Within three years I had "discovered" a PCA church in Columbia, SC, from where I moved to St. Louis to attend and graduate with an M.A. in Exegetical Theology from Covenant Seminary.
By showing me my total depravity and therefore, total need for God's grace in all of life. And, by the human experience of having to rest on the doctrine that God is sovereign (and gracious) in all His dealings with me, being "infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His Being, Wisdom, Power, Holiness, Justice, Goodness, and Truth." (WCF Q.4/Ans.)
Various parts of scripture
Jesus Christ. He's fully God, yet fully man, perfect in every way, tempted in every way as me, selfless, and even a friend and brother willing to die for me to call me His eternally! Incredible!!
Up to a point. I believe God instituted the family. With mine broken by my former spouse's refusal to keep covenant with me (and God), there is definitely something lacking or abnormal. Yes, God can carry me, and the children, through it all. But, I would be fatalistic to think that I must only accept this fate of brokenness, without having sought to mend the breach (over 6.5 years have now passed by), or to AMEND my life with a godly woman, who WILL keep her covenant vow, and love me and my children as God's gifts to her.
Integrity, Faithfulness, Sincerity, Conviction
My children and an unwavering adherence to my God and His undeniable truth.
My God, my children, my life.
A "gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God's sight" (1 Pet. 3:4); solid faith that is able to be expressed and maintained with conviction and unalterability; a love for people, especially children; a sense of humor; a love for all things artistic, especially music.
Too many to list or discuss here. Ask me later, please.
My former spouse's unwillingness to adhere to her lifelong profession of Christian faith, and the resultant unwillingness on her part to keep her marriage covenant with me and God.
______________________________________________________________ "Therefore, what men commonly refer to as 'outer space,' more appropriately should be called 'the heavens.' " (C.S. Lewis, from "Out of the Silent Planet" ["Space Trilogy"], paraphrased) ________________________________________________________ "I want you to be happy. You're not. . . . Not anywhere. I see it in your eyes, in your sleep, in your answer to everything. You're barely alive! . . . You know the great thing, though? It's that change can be so constant that you don't even feel the difference . . . until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't know that your life is better . . . or worse. . . until it is. Or it can just blow you away . . . and make you something different in an instant. . . . Build this house with me." "Hindsight is like foresight without a future." (compare Jer. 29:11) (Excerpts from movie: "Life as a House") ______________________________________ "God has put me in your way (path)!!" (Excerpt from movie: "The Four Feathers") ________________________ Sonnet VI: Go From Me Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforth in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore-- Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself, He hears that name of thine, And sees within my eyes the tears of two. Elizabeth Barrett Browning _______________________________ “And , maybe there are seasons, And maybe they change. And, maybe … to love is not so strange.” (“To the Morning” – Dan Folgelberg, - LP: “Home Free” – 1976) ___________________________________ "There are watercolor ponies on my refrigerator door And the shape of something I don't really recognize, Brushed with careful little fingers, and put proudly on display-- A reminder to us all of how time flies! Seems an endless mound of laundry, and a stairway laced with toys Gives a blow by blow reminder of the war That we fight for their well being, for their greater understanding, To impart a holy reverence for the Lord. ...And the vision can get so narrow as you view through your tiny world, And little victories can go by with no applause. But in the greater evaluation, as they fly from your nest of love, May they mount up with wings as eagles for His cause. ...What will we do, when it comes down to me and you-- They look a little less like boys (girls) every day? Oh, the pleasure of watching the children growing is mixed with the bitter cup Of knowing the watercolor ponies will, one day...one day, ride away!" ("Watercolor Ponies" - lyrics, Wayne Watson - LP, late 80s, early 90s) _____________________________________________ Proverbs 30:7-9 (New American Standard Bible) 7 Two things I asked of You, Do not refuse me before I die: 8 Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion, 9 That I not be full and deny You and say, "Who is the LORD?" Or that I not be in want and steal, And profane the name of my God.
Language instructor to college, Christian high school and home schooled students. Also a video and audio editor, painter. Former radio broadcaster, mainly in the Southeast. Helped start KJIL-FM Christian radio in southwest Kansas, 1992.
To raise my children to be godly, and therefore, happy in the truest sense. Also, to know that I have utilized all the gifts that God has given me, however small or insignificant some may seem to me or others, in a way that leaves my/His mark on some aspect of humanity, especially my children.
I love listening to music, especially classical, but other types too (having been a radio broadcaster for well over a decade). I also like being creative as a photographer, particularly in manipulating the results into interesting final forms with software like Photoshop, etc.
Birmingham (Bessemer), Alabama. Pretty much U.S. and a little into Canada. Never overseas.
I have no qualms with that, although, with joint custody of children (even though I am the legal residential parent), there are complexities involved. Time will tell on this issue.
New Testament Greek
Nothing that can't be shared one-on-one with a godly, receptive woman. http://www.wermuthsgreekbook.com/ http://greek2u.wordpress.com/ http://latinisenglish.wordpress.com/ http://www.victusaeternitate.blogspot.com/
