I am originally from Paducah, KY. I went to Freed-Hardeman University and got a degree in English/History. Then I spent two years teaching English and the Bible in Italy, mainly in Rome. After marrying my beautiful wife in Florence, Italy in November of 2000, we returned to the states where I attended Seminary. I finished a Bachelor of Theology in 2002 at Harding University in Searcy, AR. I am currently serving a church in Union County, NJ.
I enjoy reading, especially History, food, my kids, sports, traveling, blogging.
Feel free to contact me at brianmarisa2000 (at) gmail.com
My Sermons can be downloaded and listened to here.
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November 11, 2007 at 8:44 am
Alright knot-head,
Got up early this Sunday morning, because I remembered during the night you had written a piece on “Reasons not to be baptized.” Ran to your site and did a seach and realized that you didn’t move any of your older stuff over to your new site. “Dang”
That would have worked great in my lesson this morning …
March 8, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Have enjoyed reading your thoughts on Christians and government. Will add you to my blog-roll. Have a great day.
March 9, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Were you at FH from 1974 to 1992? If so, did you take any sociology courses?
March 10, 2008 at 9:48 am
I was at FHU from 94-98 and had Dr. Sam Jones for the basic sociology class
thanks, cole
November 3, 2008 at 11:22 pm
wanted you to know about what we are doing
http://bit.ly/theencourager
January 5, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I’ve lost ALL my email addresses and came here looking for yours…. Can’t find it. Shucks.
When you get time will you email the name of the place you’ve made reservations at it Tulsa?
Thanks bro
February 26, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Hello from one Brian to another. I’ve found your blog site while searching for “Koine”. I’m attemtping to learn some Koine this year with the help of Dr. Bill Mounce’s resources and thought I’d search for any Koine-related blogs/blog posts.
It’s a small world: while I’m a Baptist by tradition (and not C o’ Christ as yourself), my first home out of college (and first married home) was in Beebe, AR, also in White Co. though down the road a bit from Searcy. I worked in Searcy and met many wonderful people there (several also Harding Grads and also currently work with a Speech Therapist who is a HU alum). I look forward to reading more of your posts.
Keep preaching and keep blogging!
February 26, 2009 at 3:55 pm
hey brian, cool on the central AR connection and on Greek.
I will try to email you a list of stuff I have that has been helpful. I had four quarters of it at HU and did well, but haven’t kept up.
April 22, 2009 at 9:15 am
Brian,
Just getting acquainted with your blog. It looks really interesting! I enjoyed all our conversations way back when in HSBS. You’ve got a lot of great stuff here. I’ll be back…
April 22, 2009 at 9:31 am
hey pat! thanks for coming by. we will be in searcy this november, maybe we can say hey
July 4, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Hi Brian,
I wanted to leave a comment on your most recent post but could never get to the comments section, the link only refreshed the page.
Royce
July 5, 2009 at 3:32 pm
hey royce, I actually turned comments off, didn’t really want a big “discussion” just stuff to think about individually