Chris Davis is senior pastor of Groveton Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, where he has served since 2016. He previously served for 11 years as the Pastor of Whitton Avenue Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds degrees from Bethlehem College and Seminary and Phoenix Seminary, though his ministry training began in the coalfields of southern West Virginia where he saw God’s transforming power at work in an economically depressed community. Chris is passionate about preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ from all of Scripture. The path God has taken him down has made him particularly attuned to the need for the grace and truth of Jesus in the areas of abuse in the church and ethnic prejudice. Through his own formation while in ministry he has become dedicated to coming alongside other ministers to encourage emotional health and address isolation. Married for nearly 20 years, Chris and his wife Rachael have four children through adoption and birth. In October, Zondervan Reflective will release Chris’ book, Bright Hope for Tomorrow: How Anticipating Jesus’ Return Gives Strength for Today, which Timothy Keller calls “the best practical pastoral book on the doctrine of the second coming written in years.”