September 2, 2025 By Grant Van Leuven As I prepare to enter a one-year chaplaincy residency program next month with the San Diego VA Medical Center, it is useful to revisit some things I wrote as as a result of…
August 23, 2025 By Grant Van Leuven Because of a number of heart-felt requests for advice on finding a covenant wife or husband by church members and visitors during my fifteen years of ministry (and several within the last year…
August 18, 2025 Dear Saints, I always request Ginger Ale for my complimentary beverage on an airplane. But during my Saturday flight from San Diego to Dallas I asked for coffee. I had gotten little sleep the night before and…
For Lord’s Day, August 17, 2025 Dear Saints, Recently I heard two similar comments the same week that were both pithy and profound and which I’d like to share with you with our last Lord’s Day evening sermon in view,…
August 13, 2025 Dear Saints, I wanted to share that I was blessed to interview with Jacob Gantos at KPRZ 1210 AM (Salem Media’s KPRAISE, also 106.1 FM in North County) in La Jolla for his radio program M-F at…
June 24, 2025 Dearly Beloved, Last Lord’s Day, during my morning sermon about the rejoicing which Deuteronomy 12 expresses as a theme and result of recovering God’s prescribed worship regulations, I shared a few excerpts from Jonathan Edwards’ book, The…
May 15, 2025 Dear Saints, I invite you to visit my personal “Stand in the Gap” fundraising page for World Relief SoCal and consider supporting our “Welcoming the Stranger” work in partnership with the Church in San Diego County! To…
Dear Saints, I just heard this interview on Family Radio driving home this evening. Wow! Dr. Alveda C. King (niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) shares about her work for the “civil rights for the unborn.” Her own story…
Dear Saints, With the memorial service for Pastor Bell June 22, our sister Jan recently going on home hospice, and my father’s funeral coming up in NY for which I’m leaving this Monday, it has been profound providence to have…
Dear Saints, Anthony Selvaggio writes in his book, A Proverbs-Driven Life, “The Bible is nothing less than God’s impartation to us of everything we need to know on this earth about him, his ways, his purposes, his Son, and how…