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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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreTrained 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.
Read MoreAuthentic, 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.
Read MoreThe 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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