Jeff has served as the Dean of the Pastors College of Sovereign Grace Ministries since 1998. He is also a pastor at Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he serves on the teaching team and provides theological support to the pastoral team.

Jeff’s pre-ministry experience combines a degree in Economics and English Literature with a decade in the corporate banking world. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois (M.Div., 1998), where as a student he taught Greek as a teaching fellow in the New Testament department and worked as a teaching assistant in systematic theology for Wayne Grudem. Jeff is also known for his work as editor of Bible Doctrine, an abridgment of Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from The Catholic University of America.

Jeff resides in the Gaithersburg area with his wife, Julie, and their two sons, Samuel and Benjamin.