Contributors
Matt Hill
Matt is a husband of one and father of four living in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. Although he was raised in a Christian home, he did not proclaim Jesus as his Lord until the age of 31. He has a passion for God’s word and making disciples who make disciples who make disciples. Matt recently retired from the military after 20 years to pursue a M.A. in apologetics at Houston Baptist University and has a desire to address questions many folks struggle with when wrestling with their faith. As the founder of FTRM his hope is that the content produced by FTRM will be encouraging, convicting, and thought-provoking.
Luke Allison
Luke Allison is a husband, father, and pastor. He’s been involved in ministry in the local church for the last 16 years. Luke grew up in a Christian home and was baptized at the age of 8, but wandered far and wide for many years before returning to Jesus in his 20s. Like many young people in the early 2000s, he heard the siren call of the Emergent Church and latched on to the messages of famous teachers and authors who led that movement. This brought on a period of deconstruction for him, in which he always felt like he was one more thought away from abandoning the faith altogether. As nearly everybody he knew in that movement walked down the road to agnosticism or full-blown atheism, Luke was able to take a trip to Israel on a study tour, and in the Garden of Gethsemane he experienced the Gospel’s power all over again. He found the last vestiges of the doubt-worshiping, culture-affirming, doctrine-decrying version of the faith he had been embracing for years being stripped away, and came out of that trip with a new profound love for the Jesus of the four Gospels, instead of the made up version he had been worshiping for years.
Luke’s primary passion is connecting people on the local Church level to the ancient truths of the faith. He’s found that normal everyday people can understand profound truths if we just share them in a way that makes sense.
