MICHAEL SHIPMAN

AGE - 30 BIRTH PLACE - CHICAGO IL FAMILY - Beautiful - amazing wife Jessica and our sweet and wonderful daughter Hannah (Miricle from the Lord...waited seven years for her!!!) SALVATION - JUNE 2001 Bosnia in the middle of the night reading the Gospel of John Theologically - "Reformed Baptist" ; although have not thrown out all aspects of dispensationalism or covenant thinking Employment - 4yrs USMC, 7yrs US Army = 11yrs Military Goals - To raise my famliy to charish and treasure Christ above all things by being firmly grounded in the Word of God. To complete 20yrs of active service. To go to seminary (through PhD). The three ministry goals I have are: Missions (most likely short), Pastoral, Seminary level teaching (maybe not in that order). Favorite Pastor / Author - John Piper Other Favorite Pastors - John MacArthur, Steven Lawson, Alistair Begg, RC Sproul, CJ Mahanny. Recently Began my journey of discovering the Puritans. Favorite Puritans thusfar - Edwards, Owen, Sibbes, Baxter, (Spurgeon also...."Heir to the Puritans").