# Hi! I'm Jacob Husband. Father. Follower of Christ. I live in the heart of the Midwest and I'm currently work as a Principal Data Architect for Milwaukee Tool while I'm not wrangling my kids and courting my wife. I love a great cigar, a round of golf, and a book you can get immersed in. More than anything, I'm striving to put Him first. *Lord I believe. Help my unbelief.* ## Testimony I've always longed for knowledge. Always. Learning is something that I've loved since I was a little boy. No matter the topic, I want to understand it, dissect it, and put it back together. And I'm very left brained. My mind predominately works analytically and logically. I like reason, and I try to use that in all aspects of my life to understand the world around me. Growing up my parents weren't religious. I remember growing up and we would say a prayer when we went to my grandparent’s house. Other than that, I had no interaction with Christianity. My close friends and their families didn't go to church, or at least they didn’t talk about it so I didn't have any exposure to it, with basically one exception. When I was in middle school I met this girl who became a good friend. She was involved in a nondenominational Christian youth group that she invited me too. At the time, I still didn't understand anything about what she was doing. I came to a couple meetings with her and they would sing and praise this Jesus guy, but still, I didn't understand. Although my friendship with this middle school girl faded as we moved through life, that really was my first exposure to something I didn't understand. It was basically a completely foreign concept. After that, when I was 15, I told my parents that I thought I wanted to go to church. I told them that there was something there that I didn't quite understand, but I wanted to know more. At first, they were all about it. “Yeah sure that sounds great! Let's plan on it.” Well, we never went. But I was still curious. I wanted, I needed, to understand what this Christianity thing was! So, I picked up a Bible and flipped to the first page. Genesis Ch. 1. I read through Genesis and was more confused now than before I had started reading the Bible in the first place. I had so many questions. Who are these people? How was a snake talking? How did these people live so long? Why would God flood the Earth? Having more questions than I knew what to do with, I did what anyone would do in the twenty first century. I put down the Bible and went to the internet to search for answers. I was in over my head in information and a lot of what I was reading was negative. A lot of it made me ask more questions and think that the information in the Bible was illogical. That it had no basis in fact and reason. In conversations with my friends and a few family members I would ask them the questions and raise some of the objections. Because they didn't have answers for me, maybe that meant the questions were unanswerable. Maybe there wasn't any evidence for some of the claims the Bible was making. So, I stopped looking into it and my mind was made up: I had no credible evidence to support Christianity. Then I met Emily, the beautiful woman that would later become my wife. We met at the freshman orientation our college was putting on the summer before classes began and immediately became friends. A couple years later we started dating. After we did, we started talking more about how she was Catholic and was raised that way. Her whole family was Catholic. Oh boy, I thought, am I going to have to explain my beliefs to people who might not understand where I'm coming from? No, not even close. Emily and I would drive up to see her family and mine probably twice a month. On those car rides, for whatever reason, we would often end up talking about Catholicism and religion, more broadly. I would throw hardball questions at her, she wouldn't know how to answer them, and I'd be stuck wondering what the answers were. So, after the car rides I would always make a note to myself to thoroughly research the question at hand. Questions like: are all of these Christians going to hell if they don't do what the Bible or the Church tells them to? Why can't there be multiple gods? Why is there evil in the world if there's an all-good God? This went on for just shy of two years (yes, she has the patience of a saint for dealing with me!). We would get into conversations, and I would throw really difficult questions at her. After all, she's a Christian, so she's supposed to know everything about the Bible, theological truths, and philosophical arguments, right? Of course, completely unfair to expect her to know everything under the sun, so I would do my research later. What's great about this whole process, though, is that I didn't stop learning or searching for answers this time like I did when I was 15. This time, I was determined to figure it out. And I did. In June 2017, I realized there was more evidence for Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church than there were questions or evidence refuting it. So, I did what any logical, left-brained person would do and I gave my life to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. My friends, this was just the beginning. When Emily and I moved to Colorado in July 2017 we went to different Catholic churches every weekend to figure out what church we could call home. We found one and we never looked back. We signed up for RCIA (now, OCIA) immediately, the faith formation class for adults, I went through the class, was baptized and confirmed at the Easter Vigil and celebrated holy matrimony a couple of months later. But the truth of the matter is, I'm never going to be done with my faith formation and neither are you. Faith formation is much more than checking a couple boxes. Faith formation is growing in your relationship with Jesus. And just like you wouldn't take time off to stop maintaining and building a relationship with your spouse, your kids, family, or close friends, you shouldn't stop maintaining and building your relationship with Jesus. And I hope that's why you're here. I pray I can provide some meaningful information for you on this site, and that it leads you closer to Him who loves you very much. God bless and godspeed. ## Connect with me ### Newsletter I use to write a weekly newsletter on different engineering and leadership ideas. Visit the archive here: https://newsletter.mrjaketomlinson.com/archive. I may start writing semi-regular newsletters again in the future, so drop your email if you feel like coming along for the ride. ### Socials Connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobtomlinson/) or [GitHub](http://github.com/mrjaketomlinson). Godspeed, and God bless you.