Keith Simon

Teaching Pastor

Influences: Jefferson City Football, Jonathan Edwards, Tim Keller, John Piper, John Calvin, my time in seminary, parents, grandma Hazel, Campus Crusade for Christ, Mike Burt.

Epic Moments: Cutting my first child’s umbilical cord, watching Lou Brock get his 3,000 hit, and preaching my first funeral.

Education: South Elementary School; Jeff Jr., Simonsen; Jefferson City High School; University of Missouri; Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Favorite Bands/Music: The Kinks, The Police, Coldplay, Simon and Garfunkel, U2, The Beatles, The Raconteurs, Snow Patrol, The Feeling, Eisley, and Embrace.

Best Invention: DVD player with headphones in the mini van.

Favorite Movies: Memento, Traffic, Lord of the Rings.

Favorite Books: Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards, The Institutes by John Calvin, The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis, Future Grace by John Piper, Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, John by D. A. Carson, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright, Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile

Spare Time: Running and reading.

Fear factors: Failure.

Biggest Frustration: Growing old, easy believism, fundamentalists, televangelists, man centered “Christianity,” and blame shifters.

Passion: My wife.

Motivation: Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

Personal Motto: Life’s Hard.