biblical counseling journeys on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

Today, I'm excited to have with us Matthew Stattler. He's been the teaching elder at Sierra

Vista Baptist Church since September 1st of 2019. He was raised in Senegal Africa. His parents

were missionaries supported by Sierra Vista Baptist Church, and he was exposed to the

gospel early in life. God drew him at a very early age, and he committed his life to Christ.

He attended a missionary kid school in the capital city of Dakar, and he graduated from there

in 2003. He joined the Army as a cavalry scout and deployed to Iraq for four tours. Eventually, he was medically retired

from the Army after 10 years. His education, he has a degree in Christian ministry from University

of Mary Harden Baylor, a degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in MDiv. He's certified

with ACBC since 2020. He currently serves as the pastor of Sierra Vista Baptist Church, teaches 12th grade

Quine and Apologetics at a local classical Christian school.

He's a mentor for the Mighty Oaks Warriors program and co-director of Sierra Vista Biblical

Counseling and Training Center.

He's been married to Jessica for 12 years,

and they are blessed with four children, Edward, Silas, Charlotte, and Samuel. Matthew, I'm so

grateful that you're here to talk to me today. This is a new thing that we're doing, and you get

to bat lead off, and I'm really excited about your story. I've heard bits and pieces of that. I'm

excited about the things that we're going to learn today. This is an opportunity for us to hear

stories in biblical counseling, how the Lord brought you to biblical counseling, and how the Lord

may have used biblical counseling in your own life. And I'm really looking forward to that time. So,

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