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Randy Alcorn is an author and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching principles of God’s Word and assisting the church in ministering to unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. His ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions, and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity. He accomplishes this by analyzing, teaching, and applying biblical truth. Before starting EPM in 1990, Randy served as a pastor for fourteen years. He has a bachelor of theology and a master of arts in biblical studies from Multnomah University and an honorary doctorate from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and has taught on the adjunct faculties of both. A New York Times bestselling author, Randy has written more than fifty books, including Heaven, The Treasure Principle, and the award-winning novel Safely Home. His books have sold more than ten million copies and have been translated into more than seventy languages. Randy has written for many magazines, including EPM’s Eternal Perspectives. He is active on Facebook and Twitter and has been a guest on more than seven hundred radio, television, and online programs. Randy resides in Gresham, Oregon, with his wife, Nanci. They have two married daughters and are the proud grandparents of five grandsons. Randy enjoys time spent with his family, biking, snorkeling, underwater photography, researching, and reading.

Tony Evans is a pastor, teacher, author, speaker, and one of the country’s most respected leaders in evangelical circles. Through his local church, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, and national ministry, The Urban Alternative, Dr. Evans promotes a Kingdom agenda philosophy that teaches God’s comprehensive rule over every sphere of life as demonstrated through the individual, family, church, and society.

Jefferson Bethke is the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion and It’s Not What You Think. He and his wife Alyssa host the highly successful online challenge 31 Creative Ways to Love and Encourage Him & Her, make YouTube videos watched by hundreds of thousands of viewers each month, and host a podcast about relationships and faith available wherever podcasts are found. They live in Maui with their daughter, Kinsley, and son, Kannon.

At the age of 27, J. D. Greear became the pastor of a 40-year-old neighborhood church. In the years since, that congregation of four hundred has grown to over five thousand in weekly attendance. Today the Summit Church, located in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, is one of the fastest-growing churches in North America.

D.A. Horton serves as Pastor of Reach Fellowship a church plant in North Long Beach, CA & as Chief Evangelist for the Urban Youth Workers Institute(UYWI). Prior to his current roles he served as an urban church planter/pastor in Kansas City, MO, a National Coordinator of Urban Student Ministries at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and the Executive Director at ReachLife Ministries, the non-profit ministry of Reach Records.

Colin S. Smith is senior pastor of The Orchard, a vibrant, multi-campus church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. More widely, Colin is the teacher on the daily radio program, “Unlocking the Bible.” With a weekly audience of more than 250,000, the program is now heard on over 200 stations throughout the United States. It is also heard by thousands more via podcast and smartphone apps, and on the internet. The ministry challenges listeners to believe that their lives can be transformed by personal study of God’s Word through “the power of the open book.”

Tony Evans is a pastor, teacher, author, speaker, and one of the country’s most respected leaders in evangelical circles. Through his local church, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, and national ministry, The Urban Alternative, Dr. Evans promotes a Kingdom agenda philosophy that teaches God’s comprehensive rule over every sphere of life as demonstrated through the individual, family, church, and society.

At the age of 27, J. D. Greear became the pastor of a 40-year-old neighborhood church. In the years since, that congregation of four hundred has grown to over five thousand in weekly attendance. Today the Summit Church, located in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, is one of the fastest-growing churches in North America.

Tim Chaddick is the founding pastor of Reality LA, a rapidly growing church in the heart of Hollywood, California. Reality LA is part of the Reality family of churches, a movement committed to relational church planting and serving the broader body of Christ. Tim is the author of Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning.

Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston (Ph.D., M.A., M.Div., B.A) is a New Testament scholar, apologist, and regular speaker on university campuses, churches, and popular venues. He serves as associate professor of early Christianity at Houston Baptist University and is also founder of the Christian Thinkers Society. His passion is equipping Christians to give intellectually informed accounts of what they believe in the public sphere and what impact those answers make on the betterment of society.

Dr. Eric Mason is the co-founder and lead pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia. He is known for articulating and proclaiming the gospel with clarity, passion, and authority at churches and conferences nationally. In addition to his role at Epiphany Fellowship, Eric serves as the president of Thriving, a ministry dedicated to aiding ethnic minorities to be resourced and trained for ministry to the urban context. Dr. Mason received his Master of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary as well as a Doctorate degree (Ministry in Complex Urban Settings) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Robert Jeffress is the senior pastor of the thirteen-thousand-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, and a Fox News contributor. He’s also an adjunct professor at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Dr. Jeffress has made more than two thousand guest appearances on various radio and television programs and regularly appears on major mainstream media outlets such as Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, Hannity, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Varney & Co., and Judge Jeanine, as well as on ABC’s Good Morning America and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

Dr. Jeffress hosts a daily radio program, Pathway to Victory, which is heard nationwide on more than 930 stations in major markets such as Dallas-Fort Worth; New York City; Chicago; Los Angeles; Houston; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Philadelphia; and Seattle. His weekly television program can be seen in 195 countries and on 11,295 cable and satellite systems throughout the world, including China, and on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Daystar.

Dr. Jeffress is the author of twenty-four books, including When Forgiveness Doesn’t Make Sense, Countdown to the Apocalypse, Not All Roads Lead to Heaven, and A Place Called Heaven: Ten Surprising Truths about Your Eternal Home.

Dr. Jeffress led the congregation of First Baptist Dallas to complete a $135-million re-creation of its downtown campus. The project is the largest in modern church history and serves as a spiritual oasis that covers six blocks of downtown Dallas.

Dr. Jeffress graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a DMin, from Dallas Theological Seminary with a ThM, and from Baylor University with a BS. In May 2010 he was awarded a doctor-of-divinity degree from Dallas Baptist University. In June 2011 Dr. Jeffress received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dr. Jeffress and his wife, Amy, have two daughters and three grandchildren.

Tony Merida is the founding pastor of Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, N.C. He also serves as Associate Professor of Preaching at Southeastern Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. His books include:

• Faithful Preaching
• Orphanology
• Ordinary: How to Turn the World Upside Down
• Proclaiming Jesus
• Eight volumes in the new Christ-Centered Exposition commentary series (B&H), of which he also serves as a general editor, along with Danny Akin and David Platt.

He is happily married to Kimberly; and they have five adopted children.

Ron Blue is a successful entrepreneur in the financial services industry with more than 50 years of experience, during which time he helped found Ronald Blue & Co., the National Christian Foundation, and Kingdom Advisors. Ron is the author of more than 20 books on biblical financial planning, including the national bestseller Master Your Money.

Steve is an organizational strategist, pragmatic theologian and social capitalist. At any given time, he is advising 5-6 executives or business owners, along with 3-4 young energetic social entrepreneurs. He sits on a half dozen boards, holds degrees in multiple subjects, writes often and speaks occasionally. He lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife Karen, has three adult children and if he doesn’t return your call quickly there is a good chance he snuck off to the river…again.

John Piper was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Bill and Ruth Piper January 11, 1946. When John and his older sister were still small, the family moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where John spent his growing-up years. His father was an itinerant evangelist, and his mother died in 1974 in a bus accident while visiting Israel.

In 1980, sensing an irresistible call of the Lord to preach, John became the senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he ministered for almost 33 years.

As the overflow of a church tape ministry, Desiring God was founded in 1994, where John today serves as lead teacher. What started with tapes and John’s books, Desiring God has blossomed into an international web ministry with 12,000+ free resources and 3.5+million monthly users. Today, John serves as lead teacher for the ministry.

John and Noël have four sons, a daughter, and twelve grandchildren.

Philip Nation serves as the Director of Advancement and Global Impact Churches with the Baptist World Alliance and frequently speak at churches and conferences. He earned a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.. Over the years, he has served as a pastor, minister of education, and a church planter.

His latest published work is the video-based Bible study Pursuing Holiness: Applications from James. In 2016, he published Habits for Our Holiness: How the Spiritual Disciplines Grow Us Up, Draw Us Together, and Send Us Out with Moody Publishers. He has coauthored two other books: Compelled: Living the Mission of God and Transformational Discipleship: How People Really Grow.

He is serving as the Assistant Professor of Leadership and Biblical Studies for Houston Baptist University.

He and his wife, Angie, live in Florida. They have two young adult sons Andrew and Chris.

Dr. Steve Gaines has been the Senior Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee since 2005. Since 1983 he has pastored churches in Texas, Tennessee, and Alabama. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Preaching from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as a Master of Divinity. He received his Bachelor of Science from Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.

He has been involved in service to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) as a member of the Committee on Nominations (1991 and 1999), a Trustee of Lifeway Christian Resources (1998–2000), and a member of the Baptist Faith and Message Study Committee (1999–2000.) He preached the Convention sermon (2004), served as President of the SBC Pastors’ Conference (2005), and was Chairman of the SBC Resolutions Committee (2015).

Steve is married to Donna, and they have four children: Grant (Doctor of Philosophy in Theology from Southern Seminary), Senior Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Jackson, Tennessee; Lindsey, homemaker and wife of Ryan Wingo, Worship Pastor at Apex Baptist Church in Apex, North Carolina; Allison, homemaker and wife of Gentry Hill (Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary), Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church Poteau, Oklahoma; and Bethany, a first grade teacher at a Memphis school and married to David Golding with Golding Mechanical Services of Memphis, Tennessee. Steve and Donna have nine grandchildren.

Jeff Vanderstelt gives his life to teaching and equipping the church and to training and encouraging ministers of the gospel. To that end Jeff leads Saturate and the Soma Family of Churches and teaches at Doxa Church in Bellevue, Washington. He also travels around the United States and the world, equipping the church in the gospel and missional living.

When he’s not speaking or teaching, Jeff gets to do a little writing. He’s the author of Saturate: Being Disciples of Jesus in the Everyday Stuff of Life and Gospel Fluency. Additionally, Jeff wrote Saturate Field Guide and The Gospel Fluency Handbook with Ben Connelly. Jeff is married to Jayne, and they have three children: Haylee, Caleb, and Maggie.

Robby has served as Senior Pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church Senior Pastor since 2015. He wasn’t always a pastor, though. For three years, he battled a drug addiction that ravaged his life. A $180 a day heroin and cocaine addiction forced him to steal $15,000 from his parents. After living without gas, electricity, and water for months, losing 8 of his friends to drug related deaths, watching 6 friends arrested, and completing two rehab treatments, Robby remembered the gospel that was shared with him by a friend in college and was radically saved on November 12, 2002.

Eight months later, David Platt, a seminary student and church member at the time, asked Robby to meet weekly for accountability, prayer, and bible study. For the next 2 years, David installed a passion for missions, expository preaching, and disciple-making in his life. He also encouraged Robby to go back to school to pursue theological education.

Robby completed his Masters of Divinity Degree in Expository Preaching in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Preaching in 2011 from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Today, Robby’s gospel conviction and evangelistic zeal drive him to passionately “make disciples who make disciples.”

In addition to his leadership at Long Hollow, Robby is also the founder of Replicate Ministries and the author of several books, including Growing Up, Firmly Planted, and Rediscovering Discipleship.

Robby and his beautiful wife, Kandi, have two young sons: Rig and Ryder.