New Kids At The Grown Ups Table

My name is Tim Isaacson.  I’m the pastor of a church in the Chamblee-Doraville section of Atlanta, GA.  I have one wife and two sons. 

I didn’t walk into ministry through the front door.  My background and education are in public health. 

My theology is Reformed.  I attend Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA.  I’ve also have degrees from Texas A&M University (B.S.) and the University of California at Berkeley (M.P.H.). 

I enjoy speculative fiction, especially the cultural insights and critiques that use to be called Cyberpunk.  Another genre I enjoy is the mixing of celtic and other mythology into contemporary urban environments (De Lint, Bull, and others). Currently qued up on my MP3 are Derek Webb, Jonny Lang, John Michael Talbot, Nickel Creek, the GooGoo Dolls, Finger 11, Shinedown, and Stone Sour…yeh, I’m all over the board. 

My journey in this transformation has been informed in significant ways by the following:  Shaping of Things To Come by Frost and Hirsch, Unstoppable Force by McManus, Living Faithfully In A Fragmented World by Wilson, The Emotionally Healthy Church by Scazzero, Outgrowing the Ingrown Church by Miller, and The Celtic Way of Evangelism by Hunter. 

In addition to these challenging, insightful authors writing about mission and the church, I have been sustained and encouraged in my heart through the biographical works and devotional works of Benedict, Spurgeon, Piper, Nouwen, John Perkins, and others.  I am fascinated about the new monasticism, especially as described by John D. Hayes in Sub-merge and Shane Claiborne in Irresistible Revolution and Schools of Conversion. 

My main means of sanity are prioritizing my devotional rhythm in life, loving my wife, playing with my kids and giving them time, sweating out my frustrations, anger, fears, and stresses through physical exercise as described by Crossfit.com and rosstraining.com.