About

Personal Statement

I live to glorify the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I believe the Holy Scriptures are the inspired, inerrant, and fully sufficient Word of God, my ultimate rule for faith and life. I believe that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, is fully human and fully God; He lived a sinless life, died on the cross to satisfy divine justice, was resurrected, and reigns. I receive and rest upon Christ alone for my salvation. By God's free grace, His perfect obedience and His death in my place on the cross, bearing the punishment I deserved to pay for my sins, are credited to me, clothing me in His righteousness so that I stand without condemnation.

Having been regenerated by the Holy Spirit, I have a new heart with God's moral law written upon it, and the Spirit indwells me to produce the fruits of obedience. Though I still struggle with the indwelling corruption of the flesh and fall into daily sins of weakness, I continually turn to Christ in heartfelt repentance and seek His fatherly forgiveness. In grateful reliance on His grace, I actively cooperate with the Holy Spirit to mortify my sin, pursuing a life of Christlike holiness in communion with His Church and through His ordained means of grace, until I am perfected in glory.

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Email: admin@5-tulip.com

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Recommended Resources

• Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals: Home of The Bible Study Hour, which carries the classic expository preaching of James Montgomery Boice, along with Hear the Word of God (Eric Alexander), InPerspective (Harry Reeder), and Every Last Word (Philip Ryken). ACE is also credited with the Cambridge Declaration (1996), the statement that named the Five Solas and called the modern church away from cultural worldliness and back to the Reformation.
• The Banner of Truth Trust: A publisher devoted to historic Reformed Christianity and experiential religion, best known for bringing Puritan works back into print alongside theological treatises and Christian biography. I recommend their condensed version of Calvin's Institutes.
• Bible Hub: Free and enormous. Dozens of translations, interlinears, concordances, commentaries, and original-language tools, all cross-linked for verse-by-verse study.
• The Biggest Story: Animated retellings of 104 Bible stories, Genesis to Revelation, drawn from the children's curriculum by Kevin DeYoung and Crossway. Made for kids, but as a parent I enjoyed it too.
• Breakpoint: John Stonestreet's weekly discussion of culture, news, and where the two meet, produced by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. The aim is to help believers make sense of the modern world and live faithfully in it.
• The Briefing: Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, works through the day's headlines and asks what a biblical worldview makes of them. Good for Christians still trying to keep up with the news.
• Carpooling with Jesus: Five-minute devotionals built for the commute, each with a short Bible lesson and questions for parents and children to talk through together. We do this every day on the way to school.
• Clearly Reformed: Reformed theology explained plainly. The podcast and site carry teaching, interviews, and discussions that connect the historic Reformed faith to present-day questions.
• Covenant Podcast: From Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Reformed Baptist theology, pastoral ministry, and church history, in conversation with pastors, scholars, and theologians. Confessional, and specifically shaped by the 1689 London Baptist Confession.
• Desiring God, Light & Truth: Light and Truth and Ask Pastor John, among others from DG, draw on John Piper's decades of pastoral preaching. The ministry is rooted in Christian “Hedonism,” helping listeners see Christ clearly and find their supreme joy in Him.
• Dial In Ministries: Jonny Ardavanis’ goal is to bring timeless biblical truth to bear on contemporary questions, across podcast episodes, videos, and sermons. I see him as trying to be John MacArthur’s successor.
• Dwell: An audio Bible app, and a beautifully made one. Several narrators and translations, optional ambient music, and reading plans, all for building a daily habit of listening to Scripture.
• For the Gospel: Costi Hinn on sound doctrine and how it lands in everyday Christian life, with clear and practical biblical answers to the cultural and theological challenges we actually run into. His practical steps are great to share with anyone, but especially teenagers in my opinion.
• Fortis+: A streaming platform for theologically conservative shows, podcasts, and study guides. Good podcasts on it include Wretched Radio, In The Beginning, and Integrated.
• G3 Ministries: Gospel, Grace, and Glory. G3 equips local churches through articles, podcasts, and conferences, with expository preaching and sound doctrine at the center. Their paid membership includes many great curated audiobooks.
• Grace Gems: A free archive of classic public-domain Christian writing, heavily Puritan and Reformed. Daily devotionals, sermons, audio, and quotations, all pointed toward experiential piety and deeper affection for Christ.
• Grace to You: John MacArthur's teaching ministry, working through the Bible verse by verse, with a large free archive of sermons, articles, and books. His full exposition of Romans is my favorite. I also highly recommend the book The Gospel According to Jesus.
• The Heidelcast: R. Scott Clark on historical, confessional Reformed theology, running for years now. The Heidelblog alongside it is a serious resource for recovering and understanding the historic Reformed confessions and history.
• ID the Future: Short interviews with scholars and scientists on the case for Intelligent Design, covering both the evidence for design in nature and the arguments over how evolution is taught.
• Ligonier Ministries: R.C. Sproul's ministry, and a vast library of Reformed teaching: video and audio courses in theology, biblical studies, and church history. Teaching from Sinclair Ferguson and Robert Godfrey, among others, is top notch. Their podcasts are also great, Renewing Your Mind and Things Unseen especially.
• Living Waters: Ray Comfort's evangelism and apologetics ministry, with excellent training materials, videos, and tracts for Christians who want to learn to share the gospel biblically and boldly.
• The MLJ Trust: The original, digitally restored recordings of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, whose spiritually rich expository preaching shaped 20th-century evangelicalism. Much like MacArthur, I recommend his full expositions of the books of the Bible.
• Monergism: A free digital library of historic Christian orthodoxy and Reformed theology, gathering thousands of sermons, eBooks, and primary texts from the Reformers and the Puritans.
• The Pactum: Pat Abendroth and Mike Grimes, weekly, on historic Reformed theology. Special emphasis on biblical exposition and on the Covenant of Redemption, the pactum salutis the show is named for. I really enjoyed their recent “Law and Gospel” series of episodes.
• The Paul Tripp Podcast: Tripp is an experienced biblical counselor, and the podcast shows it. Practical, gospel-centered help for the ordinary difficulties of relationships, work, and personal growth.
• Reasons to Believe: Founded by the astrophysicist Hugh Ross, RTB works at the intersection of science and faith. The YouTube channel argues, through videos and interviews, that modern scientific discovery and the biblical narrative consistently line up, which is useful for defending the faith in a science-minded culture.
• Reformation Heritage Books: Publisher and bookseller of orthodox, Puritan, and Reformed literature, from historical reprints to family worship guides. I recommend their short book series “Puritan Treasures for Today,” modernized Puritan writings.
• Reformed Forum: Deeply theological, Christ-centered resources, including the Christ the Center podcast, articles, and online courses through Reformed Academy. Rooted in the historic Reformed confessions and in redemptive-historical theology, and aimed at pastors, scholars, and laypeople alike.
• Revived Thoughts: Church history read aloud. They take historically significant written sermons, from the early church fathers through the Puritans, and have modern speakers deliver them, so you can hear the classic texts rather than read them.
• Smarter Every Day: Not a theological resource at all. Destin Sandlin is an aerospace engineer whose channel takes apart how the physical world works, and a devout Christian whose curiosity reads as genuine awe at the intricacy of God's design.
• The Spurgeon Library: Housed at Midwestern Seminary, the premier digital collection on the “Prince of Preachers.” Sermons, historical articles, magazines, and his personal book collection. A few other Spurgeon podcasts I recommend: “Spurgeon's Sermons,” “Spurgeon Legacy Podcast,” and “From the Heart of Spurgeon.”
• Stand to Reason: Greg Koukl trains Christians in apologetics and clear thinking, so they can engage the culture thoughtfully and defend classical Christianity graciously, in ordinary conversation.
• The Sword & The Trowel: Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden, from Founders Ministries, on the cultural and ecclesiological questions of the moment, from a firmly Reformed Baptist position.
• The Ten Minute Bible Hour: Matt Whitman works through entire books of the Bible one small section at a time, daily. Historical context, rich theology, and a conversational tone, which together make it a fast and genuinely fun way to study.
• Ten Minute Bible Talks: Ten-minute daily episodes through particular books of the Bible, taught by a rotating team, with reading plans and questions to start the day. Good as a morning devotion if you’re busy.
• Truth For Life: Alistair Begg's daily Bible teaching. Clear, relevant, uncompromising expository preaching, applied to everyday life. Truth For Life also runs a revolving sale of great books, sold at cost.
• White Horse Inn: One of the longest-running and most respected theological talk shows in the world. Michael Horton and a rotating panel of Reformed, Lutheran, and Anglican scholars press for a recovery of the unadulterated gospel against what they call “Christless Christianity.”