About Steve

Steve Bezner is a longtime pastor who currently serves as Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Theology at Truett Seminary at Baylor University. He is the author of Your Jesus Is Too American: Calling the Church to Reclaim Kingdom Values over the American Dream. He most recently served as Senior Pastor of Houston Northwest Church from 2013 until 2025. His passion is to see the world—become more like Heaven as people become more like Jesus.

Steve loves to preach, teach, write, and speak about the Bible in a way that is easy to understand but also challenges people to live the life that God has designed for each of them.

Throughout his life, Steve has worked to foster collaboration between local churches, serving on the board of the Houston Church Planting Network (to start new churches locally) and Houston Pastors United We Stand (to foster racial reconciliation). He works with Glocalnet to build bridges with other faiths, notably Jews and Muslims. Steve is also passionate about training other pastors. He has worked with World Hope Ministries International—helping both write curriculum and occasionally traveling to train pastors in remote global locations.

Steve loves the local church and finds perhaps his greatest professional joy in training, teaching, and coaching pastors and church leaders.

He is married to Joy and has two adult sons—Ben and Andrew. He holds his B.A. and M.A. from Hardin-Simmons University and his Ph.D. from Baylor University. If you’d like to receive Steve’s writing in your inbox as soon as it is published, you can subscribe to his Substack here.

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