Josh Desch

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Youth and Family Pastor
josh@graceredeemer.com

Family:

Wife – Betsy, Children – Howie (4), Justice (2) and Wren, born October, 2011

What I like best about my ministry:

Watching God advance His kingdom through biblical preaching, prayer and the church being the church. Also, I relish working with families and seeing the covenant aspect of discipleship worked out in the home by the power of the Holy Spirit.

In a former existence:

hum…..I’m not as cool as Peter or Dave…..student body vice president in college? Actually, I served in full time youth ministry in Georgia before seminary.

For fun I enjoy

All sports except badminton, lawn darts and competitive lawn mower racing. I especially love to play and watch basketball. I also enjoy reading, particularly a good biography, eating anything that Betsy cooks, and pinning my sons in wrestling (while I still can!).

Favorite places

Lake Michigan, any place that serves real soul food, golf cart paths, the mountains, and exploring new cultures and new places.

Favorite quote or book:

Quote – “Live for eternity. A few days more and our journey is done.” “It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an aweful weapon in the hand of God.” both quotes from Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Book -The Cross and Christian Ministry – D.A. Carson; The Mortification of Sin – John Owen; Jonathan Edwards: A Life – George Marsden

Favorite food:

Steak, Mexican, Italian and anything over 1000 calories per serving.

Dislikes:

Not having any coffee in the morning, when the Indy Colts lose, New Jersey roads and the Health, Wealth and Prosperity Gospel, which is no gospel at all.

Scripture to live by:

“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 3:10-14