In addition to being an author and speaker, Joe currently serves as the President and Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Veritas International University in Santa Ana, California, and Senior Pastor at Calvary Chapel of Temecula Valley. He also spends his time as General Editor for the Defending Inerrancy initiative founded by concerned scholars to combat the erosion of biblical inerrancy within evangelical institutions and among some church communitie and scholars.
Joe enjoys equipping the church and his students to efficiently share the gospel with a lost and searching world, and to defend the historic Christian Faith. To accomplish this, he teaches in churches, conferences and classrooms across the United States, and occasionally internationally.
While specializing in bibliology, theology proper (doctrine of God), and apologetics, Joe has a passion for Near Eastern archaeology as it relates to the Bible. He has participated in the ongoing joint excavation by Trinity Southwest University and Veritas International University, of the biblical city of Sodom at Tall el-Hammam, located near the northeastern end of the Dead Sea in Jordan (Sodom Excavation).
As a former college and professional baseball player, Joe enjoys playing and watching sports and coaching baseball at the high school level, as well as spending time at the beach with his family. He currently resides in Temecula, southern California, with his wife Theresa and son David.
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