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I’m Rev. Michael Spotts. I’m a Christian pastor, former professional photographer, and occasional writer. I use this site to share personal resources, reflections, and memories.

BACKGROUND

I was born in 1984, the year Bill Waterson began publishing Calvin and Hobbes. These oddly deep comics were the literary staple of my childhood. I credit them with helping impart to me an early love of creativity, reflection, and humor.

Religion played no significant role in my life up to age ten. Then I received a Bible from a relative. I began to read it voraciously and was struck by an immediate sense of its truth and power. Not long after, God used other means to bring my father and step mother to faith in Christ. From then on our family attended church. Throughout my adolescent years, I had no greater passion than to study and discuss God’s Word.

Besides owning and operating a commercial photography business for ten years, I worked a variety of odd jobs throughout my twenties before returning to school for pastoral training. Since then, I completed an undergraduate degree in Biblical Studies and a four-year Masters of Divinity program at Westminster Seminary in California (2016). Prior to joining Phoenix United Reformed Church as an Associate Pastor, I served as a foreign missionary in Australia and at several churches in the States. In 2021, I was appointed as Senior Pastor.

My wife, Ashley, and I have several children. We all enjoy the outdoors and camp whenever possible.

It is my privilege and passion to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and prepare the next generation of disciples for his mission.