My mission in life is to follow Jesus and lead others to follow Jesus. This mission begins at home with my beautiful wife, Jean, and two sons, William and Nathan. In my professional roles as Senior Pastor at Wilkesboro Baptist Church, author of Commissioned: Leading our Neighbors and the Nations to Follow Jesus, and Professor of Western Civilization and Theology at Fruitland Baptist Bible College, I aim to teach the Bible so that others will hear the gospel, understand Christian doctrine, and experience spiritual formation toward Christlikeness.