personal background

OVERVIEW:

  • Contact: daniel@journeyintothewilderness.com

  • Married: 22+ years (best decision of my life!)

  • Children: 4 daughters (don’t believe the hype…daughters are amazing!)

  • Day Job: Senior Sales Executive

  • My True Passion: Being a Christian author and shepherd of men

  • My Ministry Motivation: To equip young men, husbands, and fathers on how to be Godly spiritual leaders in the home

FAVORITES:

  • Favorite Lifetime Memory: My wedding day, marrying the most beautiful and Godly woman I’ve ever known

  • Favorite Family Things To Do: Spending a day at the beach together; Family movie nights; Playing games

  • What I’m Most Proud Of: My angel of a wife and being a dad of 4 daughters

  • Favorite Quote: “If my wife ever leaves me, I’m going with her!” — Tim Hawkins

SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES:

  • Bible Version I Use: ESV (English Standard Version)

  • Favorite Bible Passage: Psalm 51 (the essence of the wilderness)

  • Favorite Book of the Bible: Ecclesiastes

  • Favorite Bible Verse: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).

  • Favorite Bible Teachers: Voddie Baucham, Charles Spurgeon, J.C. Ryle, D. Martyn Lloyd Jones, R.C. Sproul, John MacArthur, Tommy Nelson, Horatius Bonar, Paul Tripp, Ed Welch, Kevin DeYoung, Stuart Scott, Gary Thomas

  • Favorite Sermon: “Gospel Clarity” by Voddie Baucham

  • Most Thankful For: Grace, mercy, and forgiveness from God, my wife and my children

  • Biggest Spiritual Warfare Lesson Learned: Satan will not break you down in the area you think you are weakest, but focus his attention on the area you assume you are strongest.

  • Favorite Bible Studies: Song of Solomon (Classic edition) — Tommy Nelson; Lord, Change My Attitude — James MacDonald

  • Favorite Books (other than the Bible): Valley Of Vision (Bennett); Exemplary Husband (Scott); Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Lloyd Jones); literally “anything” of Charles Spurgeon or Voddie Baucham

  • Favorite Worship Music: CityAlight

PERSONAL MOTIVATIONS:

  • What I Love About My Wife: Her faith in Christ (Proverbs 31), her compassionate heart, her devotion to her family, her unwavering and relentless accountability, her natural beauty, her infectious laugh, her smile which lights up the room, and her sweet, southern accent

  • What I Love About My Daughters: They are a reflection of my wife through and through, and each part of her personality and faith in Christ is uniquely distinguishable in them (Praise God!)

  • What Legacy I Strive For: To be the Godly man, husband and father God calls me to be and my wife deserves, and to see my children come to salvation in Jesus Christ

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