About

Hello everyone, my name is Jeremy.  I am originally from California, but moving to Kentucky to attend The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and becoming a pastor. This is a simple blog, forcing me to blog about stuff I am learning about!

My Testimony

I was the first born to a godly family in Bakersfield, CA. After my younger brother was born we moved to Fresno for my dad to go to Fresno State University. Shortly after this my mother was pregnant again with my younger sister. From a young age my parents taught us children the Word of God. The Lord truly blessed me with Bible training from a very young age. However, I went throughout my young days just as lost as the home without the teaching of the Bible.

From the womb, I was blinded to my sin and was running straight towards hell. I loved my sin and my heart was desperately sick (Jeremiah 17:9). Titus chapter three correctly describes my sinfulness: foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending my life in malice, and hateful. These sins played out in all aspects of my life, from friends to family. And most of all, I sinned against a thrice Holy God!  But! I love that word.  If one reads on in Titus 3 he hears of my great God:

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life (NASB).

This is my story and my song, one day over the summer of 2001 I heard the gospel through regenerated heart and repented of my sins. He truly saved me from the depths of my sin; if he had left me to myself I would have grown up a ‘good church boy’ that would find his soul in eternal torment. To quote a great old hymn “My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.” In Christ and Christ Alone do I boast!

God is good and kind in His dealings with His children. From 2001 when I was saved until now God has truly been gracious with me and on my ‘road’ in life. After I was saved I was really involved with my church, but mainly involved with music ministry. It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that I truly started thinking of becoming a pastor. It was also this year that my dad was diagnosed with cancer.

After a long year and a half, the Lord took my dad home to be a worshiper around the throne of grace! My dad is a major thrust to why I have wanted to become a preacher. My dad was never a big communicator; yet when he came home for his final three months, out of his mouth poured the gospel to everything and everyone who walked through the door. His passion for the Lord and to see Christ glorified will forever be ingrained in my mind. After my dad’s death I continued to pray for wisdom and guidance in the area of becoming a pastor. After a couple years of prayer with the Lord and guidance from my pastors, I started my search for a seminary. Ultimately, Christ’s work on the Cross is the reason I want to live and preach!