Biblio-Blogger of the Week: Jason Skipper

Once again, it is time for another installment of Bible Geek Gone Wild’s Biblio-Blogger of the week.  This time around our lucky victim volunteer is none other than Jason Skipper.  If you’re not yet familiar with Jason’s pastoral musings, be sure to subscribe to his RSS feed at pastoralmusings.com and follow him on Twitter:  www.twitter.com/pastoralmusings.  Many thanks to Jason for his willingness to participate in this interview.  I’m always blessed to learn more about the Biblio-Bloggers I encounter on the web and I’m sure you will be too. 

1. What is the name & URL of your blog? Why’d you choose that?

• Pastoral Musings @ pastoralmusings.com.  I chose that because I’m a pastor and I originally intended to record my simple thoughts on the blog.  Over the last few months I’ve also been invited to contribute to the King James Only Debate Blog @ kjvodebate.wordpress.com and have begun another team blog called Fundamentally Changed @ fundamentallychanged.wordpress.com.

2. How’d you get into blogging?

• I saw that others were doing it, thought I might have something to say occasionally that might encourage someone, and it has gone from there.

3. What do you want to be when you grow up?

• A good Christian, father, and pastor.

4. Do you have a family?

• Yes.  I have a wife, Tonya, to whom I have been married for eighteen years, and two precious children who we were blessed to adopt, and were blessed that we could adopt siblings.  They are Titus Luke (3) and Abigail Ruth (4).

5. Is Bibilical & Theological studies a hobby or a career aspiration?

• No answer.

6. Who’s your favorite author? Recommended books?

• The Pleasures of God and Desiring God by John Piper.   In addition, I would add Portraits of God by Coppedge.

7. What’s your favorite theological subject / topic?

• Doxology.

8. What’s your favorite Bible translation?

• I grew up KJV only.  I still love and use the KJV primarily.  I have recently come to love, appreciate, and enjoy the ESV.

9. What’s in your CD and/or MP3 player right now?

• A great mixture. Some country, bluegrass, Casting Crowns, Kingdom Heirs, John Piper, John MacArthur, Mark Driscoll, and some courses from Covenant Seminary.

10. Where did you go to school? (undergraduate, graduate, etc.)

• I have only fifteen hours of any kind of formal education after high school.  I strive hard to read and learn. I read widely, and I read seriously.

11. What is something interesting that most of your readers don’t know about you?

• I am shepherd/pastor to two small country churches, preach six times weekly, and love it.

12. What are some research / writing projects you’re interested in pursuing?

• I am deeply interested in the Genesis debate.  If I were to write, however, I would write some simple doctrinal studies in a systematic form for the churches and preachers in the circles where I minister.  There is a great need to move beyond some of the more extreme fundamentalist attitudes that I see in my particular area and I would love to be able to help folks do that.  Of course, I am deeply interested in the KJVO debate as well as historic fundamentalism and have begun blogging about that.  Apologetics is also something that interests me and I find myself reading about quite often.