About

“You need to start a blog. I’ll set it up for you. I just want you to write.” Outwardly I scoffed at the proposition my son, Patrick, had so enthusiastically tendered. Inwardly I was intrigued. We had been discussing my recent efforts to find a journal willing to publish a non-fiction narrative piece that I had written a few months before. This discussion, along with my careless declaration that I had “all kinds of things” rolling around in my head about which I wanted to write, had triggered the problem solving response that Patrick had undoubtedly inherited from me. Two days later he emailed me the link to my new blog site.

My name is Tim Shawhan. I was born in 1957, which means that I grew up in the Sixties with all that entails. At this writing I have been married for thirty-five years to the light of my life, Rebecca. We have three grown children, all of whom chose (or were chosen by) perfect spouses, who thus far have given us eight grandchildren.

I have a collection of over 700 vinyl records (mostly classical) that I listen to on vintage 1970’s eardrum-busting stereo equipment. I own five guitars that I have never played as well as I had hoped I would when Bob Dylan inspired me to pick up my first one over forty years ago.

At the age of 58 I chose to end a 30+ year career of managing people and problems in logistic/warehouse environments. My family thought the 80-hour workweeks were going to kill me. Three months later a sudden cardiac arrest very nearly proved them right. I am now fully recovered and employed by the state in a public service capacity.

I expect that I will be writing in more detail about all of the above-listed people and topics.

And, oh yes – I am also an unyielding believer in the historicity, deity, death, and resurrection of the perfect man Jesus Christ. I believe in the inerrancy of scripture. I believe in verbal plenary inspiration. I believe in a historical grammatical interpretation of the Bible. I will debate none of these points as the evidence in support of them is insurmountable and undebatable.

Since my conversion from atheism in 1981, I have spent an incalculable number of hours reading the Bible, studying the Bible, reading what others have written about the Bible, and studying a portion of the mass of biblical scholarship that has proceeded from some of the greatest minds in human history. I have trained myself sufficiently to deal competently with the Greek text of the New Testament. I like to think that twenty-two years of teaching the Bible to fourth-graders in my local church have made me reasonably proficient at communicating biblical truth.

Issues and lessons bud forth as a result of the grafting together of real life and real faith. We can all learn from them if we share our journeys. For what it’s worth, I’ve decided to share. After all, as has been so recently manifested to me (see: Nevertheless, I Live ), life is but a vapor. If I do not speak now, I may never get another chance.