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Johnny Coggin

Assistant Minister of Worship & Young Adults

johnny@graceevan.org

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What do you do at Grace Evan?

All kinds of musical things, all kinds of techy things, and all kinds of things related to college students and twenty-somethings. 

Got Family?

Got a precious wife - Lindsay

Got a gorgeous little girl - Lucy

Got a black miniature Schnauzer - Ellie (Eleanor Rigby).

  

Where are you from?

Grew up in Mobile, AL. 
Moved to Memphis in 1997. 
Moved back to Mobile to finish college in 2000. 
Moved back to Memphis again for seminary in 2003.  

Been here ever since, with no plans to go back to Mobile.

Favorite Stuff

1) Music - listening to it and making it
   *Favorites include: the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Cake, Coldplay, Dave Barnes, Guster, Elliott Smith, Fountains of Wayne, Amos Lee, M
onk & Neagle, Radiohead, Shane & Shane, Sufjan Stevens, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sovereign Grace Music

2) Books
            *the Bible

            *John Piper - Desiring God
                              - The Pleasures of God
                              - God is the Gospel
            *James White - The Potter's Freedom
                                  - The Forgotten Trinity
            *C.J. Mahaney - Living the Cross-Centered Life
                                   - Humility: True Greatness
            *Jerry Bridges - The Discipline of Grace

            *Mark Driscoll - The Radical Reformission

3) Biblical preaching - There is something exhilarating about hearing God’s Word faithfully handled.

4) Technology & Gadgets - can't help it, I just love it all.     Above all gadgets though, I cherish my Macbook and iPod.


5) Cereal - it's eating and drinking with one hand without looking.  What's not to love?

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Above all, I'm bought and owned by Jesus. 

May my feeble life be a display of his glorious grace.

--- jc