Main idea: Put your heart at rest in the safety of God and His covenant promises.
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Well, good morning everybody. Good morning friends. Church family. It's it's always the joy of our week to gather together. We are in the book of Genesis, and we're going to be looking at Genesis chapter 15. Today. I'll read the whole chapter, and we're going to be looking at the Abrahamic Covenant, the great promise to Abraham today. It's, it's a high point in the new in the in the Old Testament. It's referred to in the New Testament. The groundwork for salvation by faith alone is laid in the verses we're going to read. So it's really a significant section of scripture for the New Testament. So please stand with me for the reading of God's Word. And our habit here is, after we read God's word, I say this is the word of the Lord, and out of gratitude, you say thanks be to God, because He speaks to us. Isn't it amazing God speaks to us. We love that about him. So we love hearing God's word. Let's let's listen to it right now. After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. Fear not, Abram. I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great. But Abram said, O Lord God, what will you give me? For I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus. And Abraham said, Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, this man shall not be your heir, your very own son shall be your heir. And he brought him outside and said, Look toward heaven and Number the Stars, if you are able to number them. Then he said to him, so shall your offspring be. And he believed the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness. And He said to him, I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess. But Abram said, O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it? He said to him, bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle dove and a young pigeon. And he brought him all these, cut them in half and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and behold, dreadful darkness, great darkness fell upon him. Then the Lord said to Abram, know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for 400 years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions, as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace, you shall be buried in a good old age, and they shall come back here in the fourth generation. For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete. When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire, pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying to your offspring, I give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the kenizzites, the cadmanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the girgashites and the Jebusites. This is the word of the Lord God, we are grateful to you that you have written your word. You inspired Moses to write it down, and you have kept faithful transcribers and translators for 3500 years. We have your word to Abram your word to us, and we praise You and thank You. We thank you for the promise that is set here for Abrams future and our future, and we would pray that You would help us see and behold what our eternity has in store for us, and may it shape our present situations, our trials, our difficulties, the things that we anticipate. Father today, we come both with joy. There is a wedding coming, the soon to be via housers, that is a sweet thing. We pray. For Travis. We pray for Hannah. We pray for Daniel Doherty and his fiance. They're getting married this very next weekend. We pray that these marriages would seek to glorify and honor you. We pray that the men in our church would be sacrificial servants who love to help their wives grow in Christ likeness Father, we pray for Helen Campbell as she is saying goodbye to Jim after 75 years of marriage, What a precious thing few of us will ever know. 75 years on this side, and I pray that you would comfort her and help her. I pray that You would help Pam and other family members who are near, just strengthen them, help them, and may the memorial glorify you as his life was lived in service to you. We pray for churches around our city. There are some churches with troubling times, I pray for Lampstand Church on the South Hill, and I pray that you would be at work to bring your glory through a church situation. We pray that you would be at work just locally in our five minute circle. I think of fourth Memorial Church, and I think of other churches really near us. There are so many lost people that need to hear the gospel, continue to equip us and get us engaged with the lost that need it, need the gospel, but don't want it yet. Do your work in our city to help people know they need it, and then help us be ready and willing and able in every neighborhood in this neighborhood, and we pray now that you would give us attentiveness to this word. It's an old word, but a fresh word. Give it to us by your spirit in Christ's name. Amen, you may be seated well as a great school boy I loved king of the hill. Snow would come in the winter, and on our playground there, they would always make a big pile off the side of the parking lots. And you know, what do second grade boys do? Like they turn that into a competition, and who doesn't like a game of conquest? You know, once you got on top. I mean, you could celebrate, but for how long? Yes, would success bring contentment in King of the Hill? No, it brings terror. Everybody is trying to knock you back off. How often does success a hard fought victory? How often does it bring security and contentment? I mean, tomorrow night, we are big NCAA fans. We watch the Houston game. Somebody's gonna win tomorrow night. How content and for how long is the head coach of the winning team never he's always looking for another one? Yeah, I'll put a trophy up, but I've got recruiting. I've got the next thing. And of course, when you win a championship, everybody's trying to knock you off. No mostly success from a hard fought victory brings fear and greed. I've got to have another we're afraid of losing what we've gained. We crave bigger and better. When we look at this passage, Abram was not trying to be king of the hill. Nevertheless, at the end of chapter 14, he was, he was king of the hill. Abraham had gone on a rescue mission for his nephew Lot and with his, I don't know, super ninja warrior 318, he conquers a pretty large army and brings back all the goods God had fulfilled His promises out of Chapter 12 and chapter 13 empowered a miraculous victory. He just gets back from a successful battle, but with this painful realization, the world he lives in is always threatening, threatening him, threatening his family, concerns for the future, concerns for his safety, appear to be swirling in his mind. Genesis, 15 one opens with fear, not. Fear not. It's a common reality in the Scripture. Elijah calls down fire from heaven, flees out into the wilderness, terrified after great victories, there is often a dark storm cloud in the soul, concerns for the future. Are concerns for safety, and God says, Fear not.
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Why do I love the Bible so much? You might be here and you might be newish to the Bible, and you're like, look, it's an old book. What could possibly be relevant to a 3500 year old story. Everything, why I love the Bible is it speaks to the real issues of the human heart. God reveals Himself to us. One hand, none of us are Abram. And at the same time, everybody here has a handful of reasons to hear the words, Fear not. Abrams dealing with the biggest questions of life, the biggest ones, what's my future? What can I know for certain he's been given the gospel in 12 one through three, that's what the Apostle Paul says. In Galatians three, he was removed from idolatry in Ur of the Chaldeans, he was a moon worshiper who, who knows, maybe he mounted the top of the ziggurat in Ur, worshiping the God of the moon. He was brought to Canaan, where he was promised a singular descendant. He was promised to be great, to have a great name, to have a great nation for anybody who Dishonored him to be cursed, and he himself and his offspring were to be a blessing. He was given great promises, and he moved. He believed Genesis 13, after some failures, after some strife, he is told that he and his descendants, his descendants would be as many as dust of the ground. Count that Abram, alright, he's going to be a father of a nation. Genesis, 15 is about true eternal security for the body and soul. It is about true eternal satisfaction while you wait for the deliverance of ultimate promises, you must shape, I must shape our perspective on the present by God's eternal plans and promises for the future. You must shape how you feel about the present by what God promises in the future. The big idea out of this, as we look at the promise to Abram, the great statement of righteousness by faith, as we look at the Covenant, the big idea is this, put your heart at rest in the safety of God and His covenant promises. Put your heart at rest and the safety of God and His covenant promises. Since God can be trusted for eternal, cosmic plans, He can be trusted for the daily threats of life. Israel needed this. Moses gets this, delivers it to Israel. Israel is commanded to go into the Promised Land, this chapter describes how that's supposed to happen, when it's supposed to happen. This chapter puts their timeline in. They felt like grasshoppers before giants. The Book of Numbers tells us these covenant promises give them courage. Here's a question for you. How do you deal with mental the mental darkness of anxiety, insecurity, phobias, lust, greed, envy, when the darkness fills your mind, how do you deal with it? The answer here is opening your mind's shades to the sunlight of God's covenant promises. What's the most pressing issue of your life right now. What does it seem like you have to have more of again? We're going to find an answer here. Put your heart at rest in the safety of God and His promises. As we look at the passage, it breaks down into two sections, one through six. Six, God makes a promise of great descendants. Seven through the end of the chapter is what we call the Abrahamic covenant. At least installment two, it's very significant. And just a heads up, we're not even going to get to point to I know those of you who like to fill in the notes. You're gonna have a your OCD is gonna have a problem. I gotta fill in the notes. So let's look at the first one trust the Lord God to be among Abrams heirs. First part of it, there's such a significance here. Verse six sets the theological framework for us understanding salvation by faith alone, and it comes in the context of Abram's journey. Trust the Lord to be among Abraham's heirs. You don't get the same promise Abram gets, but you get the promise that his heirs get. Verse one says, After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, God spoke to Abram like he's going to speak to the prophets later. And the word of the Lord is a prophecy. A prophecy comes to Abram in a vision. Fear not. It's the first words. Don't be afraid of what I mean, several things fit the context. First, the presence of God Himself. When God shows up in a vision, in person, he is transcendent. He is holy. We are insignificant and we are sinful. The natural response of the body is fear. Second Ketter lye Omer, or however, Josh said it last week, he got all the hard names last week, Ketter low Omer, he was the army that they defeated, but doesn't say they actually defeated. Kedera Omer, he could go back home, raise an army, come back and a surprise attack won't work twice. There's another the allies that he had that went on the battle with him could now be jealous of his power. They could be afraid of what would Abram do to him? Imagine he gets back home to Hebron, and all of the people who were his allies would start saying, What if he turns on us? It is an era of warlords and empire building. There is always someone looking to knock the winner off the hill. It's always happening. And probably one of the more significant ones in the passage he did not have an error. He might have to fight to keep what God had given him, and he had no one to leave it to when he died. Fear not. Now, look at what God says, I am your shield, your reward shall be very great. A super literal translation would look like this, I a shield to you, a reward exceedingly great. When Hebrew wants to make something emphatic, sometimes they leave the verbs out. You have to supply the verbs. Let's take the two a shield. A shield is a warrior's portable defense. Interesting. He doesn't say to Abram, like he says to David. He says to David, I am your fortress. I am your refuge. I am your strong tower. To Abram, he says, I am your shield. Abram, you're a warrior. You're passing through, you're in a battle. Wherever you go. I'm your protection. God's the portable protection, so to speak, the creator and possessor of heaven and earth is the believers protection. Think of that from just what Josh preached last week, the Lord Most High possessor of heaven and earth, He is the shield to the believer. Does that mean the believer will never die or ever get hurt? No, it doesn't mean that
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as the chapter unfolds. You You almost if you stop and think about it, you get a gut punch. Israel is going to spend 400 years in slavery. 400 years in slavery. What's the shield? God protects the soul. God protects the Future Body. We'll get to resurrection in a little bit. So great new hymn. Lynn and I like playing sovereign ruler of the skies, and there's a line in it. Not a single shaft can hit unless the love of God sees fit. God is the protection for the believer. Second, a very great reward. The translators supply the verbs shall be a great reward. They're looking at the next sentences. What reward? What will you give me? But the older translations, King James, New King James, leave the verbs out. And I think it makes most sense, because they don't supply the verb for I am the shield. I am a shield. I will be at reward. I think it's I am, I am shield, reward. God. Is the possession, the reward of the believer. Psalm 16, seven, David says, You are my portion. Now, just pause for a second. The one who creates and possesses heaven and earth is obviously greater than heaven and earth. To possess him is to possess more than heaven and earth. To possess him is to possess more than everything you could see, fly over, travel to dig into Ian what a great statement
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God makes this heart settling statement to Allow Abram to process his problem. If you're not. Abram comes back from the battle. Fear seizes him. He starts thinking about the what ifs, which we all think about the what ifs we look to next weekend, what if. But Abram said, O, Lord God, what will you give me your reward? But what about the promises you have made? What about the promises you said I'm supposed to be a great nation. I'm going to become a great nation. You said, I'm supposed to have descendants as numerous as the dust of the earth says, I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus. I mean, he's a good, faithful servant, but he's not my son. Behold, you've given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir. This is the first lament in the Bible. What's a lament? The Psalms are filled with laments, 1/3 of them. Here's what a lament is. God makes a promise, God reveals Himself. God declares some future hope, but the present experience doesn't add up to what you know to be true about God and to the promises he's made, they don't add up like I see what your word says to me, and I see some of the past actions, but this current circumstance. It doesn't add up. Help me. And the thing about a lament is the person lamenting takes their complaint, takes the difficulty, takes the fear, to the only one who can do something about it, to the Lord Himself. I
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God is patient with Abram in his weakness of faith. He promised me to make me a great nation, and I don't even have a child yet. Yes, I have great wealth Ian. I could give it to Eliezer, but he's not part of my family.
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Verse four, okay. Behold, the word of the Lord came to him, this man shall not be your heir. Your very own son shall be your heir. Had to come as a powerful word to Abram. He's 75 who knows how old is? It's after these times. He's in his 70s, late 70s. Abram, Sarah is in her late 60s. No. Abram, you will have a son. Rest secure. You will have a son. The vision was happening at night. Lots of them happen at night, and remember it's night. In Abraham's mind, it's night outside. The Lord brings Abram outside. Come on, Abram, I want to show you something I the flaps of the tent are opened, Abram walks out, and the Lord says to him, Look toward heaven and Number the Stars, if you are able to number them. I can only imagine a clear night sky and the Milky Way aglow and the moon already set, I reminded my wife first hour, this is a good reason. One good thing comes out of growing up in Cheney, seven miles south, in the middle of the country, because there was no light pollution, and you could see the stars might be the only thing good about growing up in Cheney, but look at the stars. Abram, can you count them? I mean, he'd already given the promise that your descendants will be like dust of the earth now they'll be like stars in the sky. Can you count them? Abram, of course, he can't count them. He couldn't count the dust. He couldn't count these. From a human perspective, this word picture is they will be innumerable. Abram, he said to him, so shall your offspring be? Here is a glorious promise for you. Abram, all the promises that I've already made, I'm making them again. Abram, they're still true. Look at Verse six, and he believed the Lord. He believed Yahweh. He trusted the Ever Living God, Lord, Possessor of heaven and earth, creator and sustainer of all. He believed the Lord. And He the Lord counted it to him, Abram as righteousness, the statement is massive. It's massive, and it's essential to understanding saving faith. The word believe is to put one's trust in one's reliance on Abram trusted Yahweh, his shield and his possession, he trusted Yahweh, the living and eternal one. The word counted is crucial. Its use is like on a Bank Ledger. Sometimes it's translated as credited, but imagine a Bank Ledger with debts, debts to sin, and when Abram believes, when Abram trusts, it's put in his account as righteousness wipes out the debt of sin, and it puts in the righteousness of God. Remember, Abram was an idolater, like everybody, he was an idolater and Ur of the Chaldean. He was not a righteous man at the time, he was a successful trader, and he might have been a decent business partner, but he was as unbeliever as unbeliever gets. And God appears to him, calls him, he moves, he believes, and he's credited with righteousness so significant that Romans four, three, basically the whole book of Romans uses this as the historical justification for justification by faith in Christ alone. Galatians, three, three uses the same. I'll read some out of Galatians. Three. Ian. It says, just as Abram believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness, know, then that it is those of faith who are sons of Abraham. Abraham, you don't get Abraham's promise to be the father of a great nation and have many descendants, but you get the promise of being an heir, the offer of being an heir, and anyone who trusts Abrams, God gets Abram's blessing.
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Galatians 38 says the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preach the gospel beforehand to Abram, saying, in you, shall all the nations be blessed. That's from chapter 12, verse three, Abram had the gospel preached to him. What was Abram given as a promise great nation, great name. Whoever Dishonored him would be cursed, judged. Whoever honored him would be blessed. And in him, all the nations of the world would be blessed. He was promised that there would be a particular offspring who would inherit the land. And here, Abram, in this passage is promised to possess the land we could get into the next section, he's going to ask, How am I going to know that I'm going to possess it? The answer is going to be, not in your lifetime. First this is going to happen. You're going to have a few descendants, but then they're going to go into a foreign land for 400 years and be slaves. After 400 years of slavery, I will rescue them out and bring them great possessions. But as for you, you are going to pass in peace at a ripe old age. Abram, you will get this land as your possession, not in this life, but in the next hold on Abram, trust me, as the story unfolds, that descendant who gets the land is also the descendant who pays the sin price for sinners? There's more promises to come. This covenant gives a hint that God is going to commit by his own life to preserve Abrams offspring, if they fail, he commits to his own death, which he does in Jesus Christ, the great offspring does come. The great offspring is god man, Jesus Christ, who lives life perfectly, who is betrayed, crucified, and the curse of God falls on Jesus. The wrath of God falls on Jesus. Jesus becomes the atonement, the substitute, the sacrifice Jesus pays the apostle Paul in Galatians three continues on. Justification is going to come by faith, and it's going to come the same way that it come to Abram. But now there's more to the promise. Verse 13 says, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who has hanged on a tree so that in Christ, Jesus, the blessing of Abram, might come to the Gentiles.
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The most important thing for you to see here is that there is an offer to the heir. Are you an heir of Abrams promise? Are you trusting the promised seed, killed, resurrected, crushing Satan, paying for sin. Are you trusting the seed? Are you trusting Jesus?
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You need three things for saving faith. Three Things for saving faith. Let's spiff up the classic chair illustration. I've got a chair. Here's the classic chair illustration. Can I get my prop manager? Oh, thank you, David. David's waiting here for I got my prop manager. Let's spiff up the classic chair. Illustration and add to it the latter illustration to it. All right, write these things down, because I think they're going to be helpful for you. What is saving faith? You need three things. I learned these from RC Sproul 30 plus years ago, and because we have a lot of kids in classic Christian school learning Latin, here we go. Here's the Latin words, number one, notitia, facts. What is it required to have saving faith? First, it has facts. Okay, let's use the chair illustration. This is a chair rated for 400 pounds. Fact, I am lighter than 400 pounds. I agree the chair will hold my weight. Noticia, facts, a census, agreement, I agree the chair will hold my weight. Have I exercised faith yet? No. Number three, fiducia, confidence only when you put your confidence and you sit in the chair Have you put your faith in the chair. Here's the illustration about Jesus Christ, the promised heir of Abram. Jesus Christ came and lived a perfect life. He came to make a people for his father. He died on the cross making full payment for all sins. This, this Christ is able to bear all your sins. That's the fact. That's a fact. He is able to bear all of your sins. Do you believe that that's a fact? Natitia Second, a census. Here's where a lot of you are tripped up. The little ones among us start to hear the stories of the gospel and go, I agree with the facts. I mean, I don't disagree with my parents and I don't disagree with the Bible. But that's here's the question, is it sufficient for your sins? Is it sufficient for my sins? I mean, I know he could bear the sins of the sins of the world, but I'm not sure he could bear my sins. I know other people can be saved, but I'm not so sure God is good to me and he would save me. But here is faith. You must you must recognize that it is good for you, and Jesus calls you come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, of trying to achieve your salvation, of trying to work it all out, come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. And then, and some of you are there. I believe he's good. I believe he could save me, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure he's good to me. And then comes the confidence. Will you put your confidence and rest alone on His atoning and saving and promising and securing work? Now let's ask the question, who gets the credit Christ does? What am I resting on right now the chair? Is there any credit for sitting in the chair? Is there any credit for believing, no, it's actually the opposite. It's the recognition that all credit and all righteousness has to be supplied by another. This is what God is promising here, the supply of righteousness by another. God is supplying it himself. Now in this world, here's what we do. This is a step ladder. Chairs are for resting. Step ladders are for climbing, climbing trying to get up, trying to get up in the world. We all have this hunger to climb. We want to achieve more. We want to play more. We we want more good feelings. So we're going to get the good feelings and alcohol. We're getting to get the feelings and immorality we're going to get we all rock climbers. There's climbing to be done to set my soul at peace and rest, or at least experience some ongoing pleasure, and there is climbing, and climbing ladders are for climbing. The idea of of getting to Heaven is often thought. Of by someone as climbing. I do these things, and God will accept me. And if you're not thinking about God, you do these things, and people will accept me, you know, if I wear the new jeans, the new painted jeans, and then people will like what I'm wearing. If I if my kids remember me on Mother's Day without their father having to tell me, then I'll feel good about who I am. My kids, I've finally done it right. My kids recognize what I've done for them. I get my projects done for my project manager and and he recognizes that I'm doing a good job, and I feel success climbing, climbing, when you start to climb, you're eventually going to hit a spot where you think, this is my identity, and you hit the top of that step ladder where it says, not a step, and what am I doing? I'm stepping on not a step. Does the paint tray hold my weight? Should we find out? Nope, we should not find out
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whether it's for your safety, whether it's for your satisfaction. You're trying to put something on the paint tray, and the paint tray won't hold it is not what this is built for. It is not built for your soul's security. It's not built for your soul satisfaction. What is built for your security? What is for your soul satisfaction, is the work of the loving Savior, Jesus Christ, to secure you eternally with God. Now here's what we do with this you have. Many of you have trusted God. I put my faith in him. I'm going to heaven because of him, but a threat just showed up, or a sudden success just came in front of you, and all of a sudden, I'm really interested, oh, I'm worried about the threat. And what do I do about the threat? I start climbing. And we're conflicted, people, parts of us, start climbing again. I don't think I can do this, but you take your chair and you and you start to climb can I? I don't. I'm not even going to try. The the flesh, we call it, the the body that's not yet transformed and changed, has a propensity for climbing, for achieving, impressing. And what happens when you fail to impress, you find your soul crashing down. Abraham had received promises. It's not really saying that here he's finally converted. It's just this is where he's making the statement. It was counted to him as righteousness, and he needed the reminder, like every one of us needs the reminder. So I just want to ask you today, I don't know what your trust is. I don't know if you agree with the facts. I don't know if you agree with the facts about you, but I would plead with you to rest in Jesus, to trust him. What does that look like? It's as simple as the heart finally empty of all its efforts, crying out to God, saying I can't do it. My sin is great, my power is meager. I need you. I need you to rescue me. I need you. I do not have it. You compare Abrams fears to ours. Teens want their friends. Moms want their kids to turn out. Parents want their teenagers devices to block bad content and bad characters. Retirees want their mutual funds to soar. Singles want the risky blind date to go well, and those are all real those are all real things. When we begin to put our security on those we are stepping onto something that can't hold the weight you. God is working out a plan for the biggest issues of life, so let his let his protection and his satisfaction hold you now, let His promises inform your present you.
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If God is working out all the biggest plans and issues of your life, it is no work for him at all to take care of the little ones. It's no work for him at all
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as the story unfolds, we'll get to it after Easter. We we have Palm Sunday next week, and Easter The week after so we'll come back to this covenant. But I want to give you a picture of Abram's gospel. He's told Abram asked how well I know that I will possess it. Well, here's what's going to happen. You're going to have to go through Abram. You're going to have to go through a waiting period. Your descendants are going to grow but they're going to go into another land. We know that. That's Egypt, where they will be enslaved for 400 years, and out of that, I will rescue them. Out here is the paradigm for you and the paradigm for me. Jesus says, in this life, you will have many tribulations, Fear not. In this world, you will have many trials. Fear not. I have overcome the world. The apostle Paul says in the book of Acts to the believers who have put their newfound faith in him. Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. What He's telling Abram is that there is a promise of another life, another life after the 400 years after your people in the land, after the promise goes to the Gentiles, so that I can make your descendants like the stars of the heavens, innumerable to count, there will be resurrection. We are promised the same.
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The person who believes in Jesus has eternal life and will be raised bodily from the dead to live on a new heavens and a new earth.
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Whatever, whatever trouble there is for your life is just sand in the shoes. Whatever is treasure in this life is gravel in the jewelry box. In comparison with God being your shield and God being your reward, let's pray, Father, thank You for this word to Abram, this word to us. There are some here that have put their hope in you and the difficulty or their own personal failures are clouding the reality of your promises. Just help. Help bring the light. Open up the shades to our heart. Let the light of covenant promises come in, Father, I pray that You would help us now to keep our trust there, and this is the message of the gospel that our friends and family need to hear. Our city needs to hear. Help us be faithful in bringing it Christ's name. Amen.
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Dr. Dan Jarms is lead pastor at Faith Bible Church in Spokane Washington, as well as associate dean at The Master's Seminary in Spokane. He has been married for over 30 years to Linda, and has three adult children. He earned his B.A. in English at the Master’s College, B.Ed. at Eastern Washington University, M.Div and D.Min in Expository Preaching at The Master’s Seminary. His other interests include NCAA basketball, woodworking, and art.
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