I came to know Jesus Christ as my Savior when I was about halfway through college. I had heard the Gospel and knew that Jesus had died for sinners. I was taking a class called Great American Speakers. Our semester assignment was to research and re-deliver each speech. As God would have it, I drew four sermons and a speech by Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided (even that one was built on a Biblical text). I knew that God was trying to get my attention. It was when I came to the last speech that God took hold of me. It was a sermon by Jonathan Edwards called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. I finally came to realize that I was the sinner in God's justifiably Angry Hand! I finally saw the reason for God's sacrifice of His own Son. I truly discovered God's mercy, love, and forgiveness. To that was added the incredible privilege of being called into God's service. I received my training at The Master's Seminary and have served in pastoral ministry since 1991.