Eric Stiller
FAMILY:
HOMETOWN: Costa Mesa, California
SPOUSE NAME: Jenny
CHILDREN: none
MINISTRY:
SERVING AS: Pastor of Trio and Site Worship
DUTIES: Leadership and pastoral oversight of Trio; music for both Trio and West County campus
PASSIONS: Music, caring for others, preaching, teaching
PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY & LIFE: The way I live and minister is an act of worship. It is a response to what I find most beautiful, glorious, and compelling in this world. I believe that ultimately, I worship either God, or myself. My prayer is that my life, and hence my ministry, would be the overflow of love for God; that everything I do would be redolent of love for Jesus (John 12:3).
EDUCATION/ORDINATION:
Master of Divinity, Covenant Theological Seminary
FAVORITES:
SCRIPTURE(S): “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3:18
“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” Psalm 27:4
QUOTE: “… look at the divine gifts around us: the clear sky, the fresh air, the tender grass, the birds, nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, we alone, are godless and foolish, and do not understand that life is paradise, for we need only wish to understand, and it will come at once in all its beauty, and we shall embrace each other and weep…” Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
MUSIC: Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Brahms, Bach, Brazilian music
MOVIES: Slumdog Millionaire, Little Miss Sunshine, Crash, Life Is Beautiful
HOBBIES: Running, the gym, reading, movies, eating out
FOODS: Anything Jenny makes (especially her potstickers)
OTHER QUIRKYNESSES:
FAVORITE MINISTRY WEBSITES/PODCASTS:
Redeemer Presbyterian Church – Tim Keller
BOOKS: The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck, The Violent Bear It Away – Flannery O’Connor, Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien, anything by C.S. Lewis
