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 the editor of Bible Doctrine, an abridgment of Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology, and contributed a chapter to Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World. 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.