ABOUT

WHO AM I
My name is Ryan. My wife and I have been married for 20 years. I am a Christian, a sinner saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Over the past 20 years we have lived in Latin America as foreign missionaries, as well as several different places in the United States. We currently are living and ministering full time in a South American country.

MY JOURNEY IN LANGUAGES
I began studying Biblical Greek in the fall of 2009. Before this, in 2007, I began studying translation and linguistics through immersion. My passion in linguistics is primarily in the cultural linguistics field, as well as lexical semantics. Seeing and studying these fields in person with living languages has given me a greater desire to know and understand Koine Greek in the New Testament. Koine Greek was the fourth language that I learned, after English, Spanish, and Quechua. Since then I have continued to study and learn other languages such as Brazilian Portuguese and French.

INTERESTS:
The gospel of Jesus Christ, the Bible, My Wife, Spending Time With My Family, Reading, Writing, Languages and Culture, Black Coffee, the Outdoors, Hiking, Camping, Exercise.

INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE:
After the Scriptures – George Mueller, J.C. Ryle, John Bunyan, Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd, and Bruchko have had a deep impact on me and shaped the way that I think and believe.

WHAT I BELIEVE:
The Gospel
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Motivational Quotes:

Another result when pastors do not study the Bible in Greek and Hebrew is that they, and their churches with them, tend to become second-handers. The harder it is for us to get at the original meaning of the Bible, the more we will revert to the secondary literature. For one thing, it is easier to read. It also gives us a superficial glow that we are “keeping up” on things. And it provides us with ideas and insights which we can’t dig out of the original for ourselves. - John Piper

Not only is this the only well from which we can draw the original force and meaning of the words and phrases of divine utterance, but also those languages (Hebrew & Greek) possess a weight of their own – a vividness which brings home to the understanding fine shades of meaning with power which cannot survive the passage into another tongue. - John Owen
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