Education

• Southwestern College
• Samuel F. B. Morse High School

Favorite saying

• "“But count me righteous not because of anything I’ve done or anything I am, but because of Him. He lived the life that I should have lived. He died the death that I deserve. I have renounced all other trusts and my plea is in Him alone. Justify me, God, because of Jesus.” "You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." --Romans 5:6-8. "The biblical gospel… is like fuel in the furnace of worship. The more you understand about it, believe it, and rely on it, the more you adore God both for who he is and for what he has done for us in Christ." --Greg Gilbert "Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self." --Charles Spurgeon "We’ve been given a mind innovated by the Holy Spirit to know God… Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord." --Josh McDowell "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." --C.S. Lewis "God without Christ is no God." --John Piper "A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person’s faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection." --Timothy Keller “Yet on both sides of this, we are somehow quick to paint someone into a black-and-white caricature with no nuances, as if they are not conflicted, struggling, hurting people with the same wounds as all of us. Maybe we watch too many movies with simplistic 'heroes' and 'villains,' and we’d all like to be the hero. But there was only one Hero who ever lived and the real Villain is dead. Everyone else is just a sinner in need of grace.” --J.S. Park "If you search the roots of creative expression, you will find that in many cases, the artist creates in today’s world out of a deep need, out of a pain or out of a lack in their life. This is the opposite to what began to emerge in my art--after I put Christ in the center of my life, I had an overflowing of joy; an overflowing of peace and an overflowing of passion for living that began to find itself expressed through my canvases. And so, rather than creating out of a need, or out of lack, or out of a pain, or a desire to be noticed, I created out of this servant’s heart, a desire to pour onto the canvas, something that is bubbling up within me; the well of joy that was now in my own life. And to serve others with that joy and to create for others, visions of peace, tranquility and God’s love." --Thomas Kinkade "You said you came for the lame, I'm the lamest I made a mess but you say you'll erase it, I'll take it You said you came for the lame, I'm the lamest I broke my life, but you say you'll replace it, I'll take it." --Lecrae, Just Like You"