Forged on the Front Lines. Called to the Pulpit.
I have spent twenty-five years in law enforcement, working in patrol, investigations, SVU, and Homicide. I worked as a motor officer, investigated fatal traffic collisions, and served in specialized units where the weight of what people carry becomes impossible to ignore. Before law enforcement, I spent five years in corrections. Before that, I served in the U.S. Navy, including time on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, one of the most unforgiving environments I have ever known. I have a history of showing up for hard things.
I know what it looks like when someone holds everything together by sheer willpower, white-knuckling it through another day. I've done it myself. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from working too hard but from carrying something you were never meant to carry alone. Most of us don't even realize we've been doing it until we're too tired to pretend. That is usually where God starts working.
I accepted Christ in 1998 and felt the call to ministry in 2008. Then I ran from it for nearly a decade, not because I didn't believe, but because I did, and I wasn't sure I was ready for what that meant.
In 2018, a reckoning with Matthew 7:21-23 stopped me in my tracks. I still can't fully explain what happened in that moment. What I can tell you is that everything I write comes from that surrender and the hard, unfinished walk that followed.
I completed an Associate's Degree in Leadership and Ministry at Grace Christian University. I'm still wearing the badge, still waiting on the Lord to open the door to plant a church. And I am writing books for the believer who is still in the middle of the water, wondering if God changed His mind.
He didn't.
