Who I’m Not
It’s common knowledge that privately owned blogs are the sole responsibility of their owners, but it’s best to be perfectly clear about some things:
On this site, I am not a representative of anybody but myself. This site is not formally affiliated with, approved by, officially representative of, advertised at, or paid for by Rocky Mountain Bible College, Rocky Mountain Seminary, or any of my other employers or ministry affiliations, past or present.
The links to various blogs, people, and ministries on your right are there because I recommend them, not the other way ’round.
Who I Am
My name is Tim Nichols, and I’m a pastor and a teacher, and husband to an amazing wife.
The Lord saved me very young, and set my feet on the unlikely path where I now find myself. In fact, to be honest, most of the really significant blessings in my life have blindsided me while I was looking for a solution in a different direction altogether. Contrary to the popular saying, God’s plan for my life — at least thus far — has not been what I would choose if I had all the facts; I have neither the character nor the imagination to come up with the sorts of things God has done with me. Happily, He does.
As far as interests go, I’m an avid reader, writer and lifelong student. I enjoy good fellowship and rich discussion (heated is okay, just so it’s clear and honest), poetry, fiction, and history, martial arts and movement, a little dance, most things physical, and all things outdoors. The writing and selection of material on this site will reflect my calling, leavened with my interests.
I’ve spent my life working in church planting, anti-cult missions, counseling and and seminary work, along with the writing and speaking engagements that go along with that sort of thing. Presently I work with youth at a church in Englewood, CO, and teach Bible college and seminary classes. When I’m not busy with all that, or hiking, or martial arts training, I am also running some experiments in trying to reform the Free Grace movement and develop genuinely Christian culture. Everybody’s got to have a hobby or three…
I’m a big-picture, Christian worldview guy by inclination and three decades of training, and an exegete by formal education. That, combined with my pastoral calling, has made me interested in exploring the deep recesses of Scripture, and working the things I find there into the deep recesses of life. It was in the midst of one such endeavor — a Sunday dinner-table conversation over messy, multiple-role relational problems — that I first described our vision of life as “full-contact Christianity.”
The term stuck, and I can’t say I’m unhappy with it. In the following months, I used it as the title for a series of position papers for my local church. Creating an internet repository for those papers and other writings — which all fall under “full contact Christianity” one way or another — was the original purpose for this site. It has suffered–or maybe benefitted–from a bit of mission creep since then, as you can see.
I hope you find it all helpful. I welcome your comments in the available spots, or for a more private conversation, you can email me using the form below.
