Tim is a Southern California native with a deep and contagious passion for God and ministry. Through gifts of leadership and teaching, Tim offers biblically-based preaching and directional leadership to NVC. He is married to Emily and has three daughters – Anna, Olivia and Norah. Tim is the author of a well-known blog offering thoughts on leadership and theology (www.timspivey.com), a number of published articles and one book, Jesus: The Powerful Servant. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University. He holds the Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Masters of Science in Ministry and Masters of Divinity degrees from Pepperdine University, and Doctor of Ministry degree from Abilene Christian University. Tim remains a speaker and consultant to churches around the world. In his spare time, Tim loves to follow sports, read, golf, hike and drink lots of coffee.