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Following Our Servant Savior’s Lead

June 7, 2025

Named for our Savior, Servant Church of San Diego launched in 2016 after I sensed God’s calling to share the gospel and grace of Jesus with the inner-city community of Logan Heights.

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The Cause is Thine

June 7, 2025

As the cool stone floor of the kitchen relieved my bare feet from Phnom Penh’s swelter, I felt that word, so warmly given, embrace my heart in a way more enduring than any arms could.

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The Word That Builds

June 7, 2025

God’s Word is a building word—it’s a word that builds, designs, and accomplishes things. This was true even before God’s Word was written down.

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A Faithful Stewardship

July 1, 2024

“This world is no friend to grace.” With these words, Eugene Peterson begins his book, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society.

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Trained for the Ordinary

July 1, 2024

“The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith” (1 Tim 1:5). The apostle Paul, in one of the most informative biblical books on pastoral ministry, gives this charge to his beloved child of the faith, Timothy.

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Authentic, Strategic, and Confessional Church Planting

April 17, 2015

Our glorious Lord has given us a mission and a powerful message to which he has attached great promises, namely the promise to use the proclamation of that message to raise the dead to life and to put the living to death. 

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The Marathon of Faith: Exhausted Yet Pursuing

March 18, 2015

Professor Charles Telfer explains that while the marathon of faith is difficult and tiring, we press on knowing that Christ is not only the founder, but the finisher of our faith.

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