September 15, 2025 By Grant Van Leuven I didn’t know much about what is referred to as the Morning After Pill (MAP), often marketed as “Plan B,” but for various reasons I have spent time learning about it and shared my findings with our Session. What follows below is a study I embarked upon to […]
September 12, 2025 Dear Saints, I had the opportunity to speak for chapel at Providence Christian College in Pasadena this Wednesday! Greatly excited about developments this year. And a wonderful opportunity to have lunch with my daughter, Olivia, who is a junior and RA at PCC. It was amazing providence how God confirmed to me […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]