God's grace through PTSD 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.

Matt, I'm looking forward to our time again this week. As I mentioned last week, we wanted to

continue our conversation with Pastor Matt Stattler. He's been the teaching elder at Sierra Vista

Baptist Church since September 1st of 2019. I want to remind you he was raised in Senegal Africa. Parents were

missionaries. 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 school there in the capital city of

Dakar, and he graduated in 2003. He served in the Army. 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. I told you last week about his education, several degrees,

a bachelor's degree in Christian ministry from University of Mary Harden Baylor, an MDiv, a biblical counseling concentration from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in

2019.

It's been certified with ACBC since June 1st.

He's married to Jessica.

I've been married to her for 12 years, and they are blessed with four children,

Edward, Silas, Charlotte, and Samuel.

And, Matt, last week we were talking specifically about your story, and we walked

through some of the details of that story. And I would encourage all of you as listeners to go back

and to hear that story. That's the context of our conversation moving forward. But I want to

give you just a second, if you can, to sort of give an overview of where the Lord brought you,

how he brought you to the place of

biblical counseling, some of the scars, and even use the word shrapnel that was thrown around

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