![]() Since moving to Orange County, we have been overwhelmed by the kindness Cornerstone Bible Church has shown us. ![]() While in Spokane, the Lord answered the prayer of many saints and gave us our two daughters, Margo (adopted in 2010) and Norah (adopted in 2013).Īt the end of 2016, I was brought on by the elders of Cornerstone Bible Church to serve as the Associate Pastor. I was blessed to be hired as Youth Pastor in 2007 and then became the Family and Children's Ministry Pastor in 2011. Following graduation, we moved to Spokane, Washington to serve at Faith Bible Church. During our first year of marriage, the Lord used many circumstances to bring me to The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California. In 2000, I married my wife Melissa in Columbus, Ohio. ![]() God granted me repentance and faith in the work of Christ on my behalf at a young age. My parents modeled a love for the Lord and His Word, an urgency to share the Gospel and a commitment to do what Jesus said. Whether it has been in the Nursery, Care Group, Bible Study, Missions, Youth Ministry, Administration, or even now as a servant-elder - it has always been my joy and privilege to serve the Lord and His body.īy God's grace, I was born into a home where the Gospel was the main thing. The Lord has blessed me with many opportunities to serve and learn about the ministry of the gospel (in spite of, or even through many struggles with my own pride and sinfulness). I grew up in the Placentia/Yorba Linda area and work as a Family Medicine Physician and Residency Teaching Faculty in Anaheim & Santa Ana. We were married in 2006 and have been blessed with 3 children. By God's grace, I met my wife, Susan, here at CBC and after some persistence and much prayer from many people, she finally said "yes". I learned that I was an even worse sinner than I thought and that God, because of His great love with which He loved us (Eph 2:4), provided not only the payment for my sin through the death of Jesus Christ (1 Tim 2:6), but also the imputed righteousness of Christ through His life and resurrection (2 Cor 5:21 Rom 1:16-17) High, God saved me by His grace around 1992 through the college ministry of Grace Community Church (UCLA Grace on Campus - Go Bruins!). God chose to give us this plan because He loved us so much.Having grown up in the church and even attending Christian school through Jr. ![]() Locate a BIBLE teaching church like Cornerstone Church, and associate yourself with it!ĭon’t forget that salvation is a GIFT and a WAY OF LIFE. Talk to God daily in prayer! What kind of relationship could you have with someone if you didn’t talk to them!ģ. Now that you have made this step, it’s your responsibility to build upon your relationship with God!Ģ. You have received the gift of ETERNAL LIFE! If you BELIEVE without holding any of yourself back, I thank you for saving me and making me your child. I ask you to forgive me of my sins and take control of my life and make me the kind of person that you want me to be. I believe that you died to pay the penalty for my sin, and that you rose again. I thank you for dying for me on the cross. “ Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I have been separated from you by my sin. (the words are not as important as what you truly believe in your heart): You can say a prayer similar to the following You must confess and believe! If it is your desire to know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you can pray to Him and ask Him to be your Savior. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:9-10, 13)ĬOMMENT: You must accept the fact that you are a sinner and that you cannot save yourself. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. “That if you confess with your mouth, “’Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Jesus died to pay the sin debt for each of us.Ĥ. “But God demonstrates his own love toward us, in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)ĬOMMENT: God sent His Son, Jesus, to die in our place because of the great love He has for us. ![]() It is His gift to us for refusing to be a slave to sin any longer.ģ. “ For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)ĬOMMENT: Disobedience to God in refusing to turn away from sin results in Death (Separation from God). Until we are forgiven of our sins, we fall short of the glory of God.Ģ. All of us are sinners and we need to be forgiven of our sins. “For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)ĬOMMENT: Every man, woman, and child on earth has sinned and is not deserving of the glory of God. ![]()
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