Hello there! My name is Liam.

I serve as the pastoral assistant at Grace Church of Santa Rosa in Santa Rosa, California. I am a recent graduate of the Cornerstone Seminary in Vallejo, California.

Thank you for checking out Nomad Industries—I really appreciate it. This is a place for me to practice writing and share it with you. My hope for this blog is threefold:

• first, that your soul would be refreshed;
• second, that your intellect and your heart would be stimulated; and,
• third, that you would behold the glorious Christ in my feeble words.

I do have a fourth goal as well—I daresay my most heinous—that you would develop a profound appreciation for the color orange… We’ll see how that goes.

Nomad Industries began in the fall of 2017 as a design project. I was chomping at the bit to develop my graphic design skills, but I didn’t have any clients. So, rather than make shabby art for someone else, I got creative. After a few cracks of the knuckles, Illustrator induced headaches, and feverish turns in my Bible, Nomad Industries was born.

What is it you ask? Initially, Nomad Industries was strictly a Nothingburger manufacturer who, despite producing zero products, had some pretty rad marketing. As I’ve grown older and changed, Nomad Industries has grown with me. For now, it’s morphed into this blog, which—Lord willing—still has some nice art.

Through the years, the core theme of Nomad Industries has remained the same. The crux of it is this: If we are Christians, then we are nomads. We have, by the glorious grace of our heavenly Father, been united to Christ and made alive in him. A wonderful outworking of this is that we have been given a heavenly citizenship (Phil 3:20). Our home is in heaven, not on earth.

Consider what the author of Hebrews writes about the patriarchs:

“These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city” (Heb 11:13-16 ESV, emphasis mine).

The patriarchs knew that “they were strangers and exiles on the earth”, shouldn’t we think in the same way? As nomads then—a convenient synonym for stranger or exile—let us live with our eyes fixed on Christ from whom we have freely received this great hope (Col 3:1-4). Only then can we be truly industrious in our callings and vocations.

In sum, my hope is that Nomad Industries—this little blog—would be an encouragement for you to lift your eyes to Christ and remember the sweetness of the gospel.

Grace and peace!