Alyssa and I met at our FCA chapter at Ashland University. We briefly talked before getting to know each other on a mission trip to South Carolina. After that, we soon dated, became engaged, and are now on the way to being married:)

Our relationship has and always will be founded and centered on Christ and the gospel.

What is the gospel?

The Good News. That God is holy, righteous, good, and perfect. This God created everything. One of His great creations was mankind whom He made in His image (Gen 1:26-27). Mankind was created to walk in relationship with God. Mankind, however, chose to rebel against God. Adam sinned against God and as his children we are born with the same condition he had—a sinful nature to rebel against God by rejecting Him and choosing to go our own way (Rom 3:23). As a result, we stand under God’s just wrath and judgment for our sin which is eternal death and separation from God (Rom 6:23). However, the gospel tells us that this God in His grace and mercy sought to remove that separation caused by sin. He did this by sending His son Jesus to live the perfect righteous life we could not live and die the death we deserve on the cross (2 Cor 5:21). He bore the full weight of God’s wrath and judgment that we deserve for our sin. Despite all of this, He defeated death and three days later rose from the grave so that all who would respond to this gospel by repentance and faith would be saved–turning from our sinful nature and surrendering our life to Jesus. Those who turn to Jesus through faith are forgiven and will receive eternal life and an eternal relationship with Him (Rom 10:9).

We only love each other because Christ loved us first (1 John 4:19). Our prayer is that our wedding day and marriage is glorifying to the Lord and that we may possess and give the love that He so graciously pours out in our lives to others each and every day.

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