September 8, 2025 By Grant Van Leuven I recently revisited the United States Declaration of Independence because of the way a speaker training a class of professionals serving immigrants bluntly described it and our country’s other founding documents with a stronger version of how the Apostle Paul refers to his own works in Philippians 3:8–and […]
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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 taking the “Intro to Chaplaincy” online class with my seminary (RPTS) about this time last […]
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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 or so), I offer the following Scriptural guidance from my own personal application for encouragement. […]
Read More »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 got up early to arrive to the airport with ample time. So I was sleepy. […]
Read More »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, “We are Blessed to Belong with the Losers.” In a dedication video to the life […]
Read More »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 6:30 p.m. called “Tent Makers.” Listen today at 6:30 pm for the first interview (and […]
Read More »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 History of the Work of Redemption, in which he extols God’s giving His church the […]
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