I am Jay Wipf.

By God’s grace at Grace University I met my wife Rachel. The Lord has since given us 3 children, Ruth, Jacob and Anna with another on the way. I grew up in a Christian family dedicated to the church. I don’t have a specific moment when I came to Christ. My wife and I graduated from Grace University in 2010 with degrees in Christian education. We served in our church in Omaha in various administrative and teaching ways.

During those years I worked for a countertop shop and a restoration company. It was then that we discovered the great benefits of being confessional, and so we have taken to the 1689 London Baptist Confession.

In the spring of 2018 we moved back to my home town in South Dakota. I had started attending MBTS, but switched to RBS for a much better online education. We currently serve in the local church, teaching Sunday school and participating in other Bible studies and activities. I do pulpit supply once a month at a different church and started doing a podcast with a couple pastors called Renewalcast and blog at Renewalblog. I work as a maintenance guy while Rachel homeschools our children.

We are grateful for the active and passive obedience of Christ, and justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. What a Savior to come as a human and fulfill the law and pay the penalty for sin! Praise God, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus! We are delighted to serve a God who never changes and is always faithful. May the law and the gospe be preached with clarity every Sunday!

I am grateful to RBS, especially for the church history classes. It has been a great blessing to see how the faith has been handed down through the generations, and to stand in the Reformed confessional tradition. Dr. Gonzales in particular has been very helpful. I also started to learn how to write at RBS (I learned I didn’t really know how). We pray we are faithful to pass on and contend for the once for all handed down to the saints. We look forward to continuing in ministry, whatever that may be.

To God be the glory.