It is really hard to find a place to start... God has poured His grace on my life in so many ways! I have a wonderful wife, three daughters and Miss Tippits (a very interesting cat that plays fetch). Despite Caleb thinking I work for the CIA, it’s really only a very cool job as a cell technician.
I picked up a bass at 11 years old, swapped to the guitar at 15, and cut my teeth with all those angry secular bands during the eighties. I played in heavy secular bands until ’98. I could write a book of praise about my salvation experience at the age of 28, but let’s just say that I found the reason for which I was created in a little tent revival in east Texas. It took a while to pick up the guitar again; undeserved guilt by association, hehe. When I finally did, I joined up with a really cool Christian emo band called Afterglo. But God would eventually lead me to ministry in my local fellowship, concurrent with my first daughter coming home.
I’ve basically been playing acoustic for the last eight years, so it has been nice to pick my ‘first love’ back up again in the form of a reissue ’72 Fender Telecaster Deluxe running through a Line6 SpiderValve 212; good stuff!
When not working, leading worship or drooling on my amp (it sounds that good), I’m hanging with my wife and girls at the house watching old movies and television shows. We are a very close and nerdy family; we love to make each other laugh. My favorite artists are Building429, Crowder, Mutemath, United, and any classical I can get my hands on. My favorite food would be pizza, although the more common meal at our house would consist of a casserole and the cultural icon of side dishes: Veg-all.
I met Journey Home a little while back and was totally blessed by their witness, on and offstage. I was blown away when God provided the opportunity for me to join them in their ministry. Music is too great of a gift to be used for anything less than worship in spirit and in truth.
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.” - 1 John 1:1-3 NIV
