About the Authors
Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. Willow Creek’s pioneering ministries have made it one of the most attended churches in North America with an outreach that extends worldwide. Hybels has authored more than 20 books, including Fit to Be Tied, Rediscovering Church (with his wife Lynne), Too Busy Not to Pray, Courageous Leadership, Just Walk Across the Room, and Holy Discontent.
Luis Palau leads the Luis
Palau Association, a ministry committed to innovative Evangelism throughout the
world. He has shared the positive message of the good news gospel with more
than one billion people worldwide and has spoken before live audiences in seventy-two
countries. He is the author of more than fifty books and booklets in both
English and Spanish.
Haddon W. Robinson, PhD, is the Harold
John Ockenga distinguished professor of preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary. Previously, he was president and professor of homiletics at Denver
Seminary and taught homiletics at Dallas Theological Seminary for nineteen
years.
Os Guinness, DPhil, is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Renaissance, The Global Public Square, A Free People’s Suicide, Unspeakable, The Call, Time for Truth, and The Case for Civility. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has addressed audiences worldwide from the British House of Commons and the US Congress to the St. Petersburg Parliament. He has been a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter, celebrating the First Amendment, and has also been senior fellow at the EastWest Institute in New York, where he drafted the Charter for Religious Freedom. He also coauthored the public school curriculum Living with Our Deepest Differences. He has had a lifelong passion to make sense of our extraordinary modern world and to serve as liaison between the worlds of scholarship and ordinary life, helping each to understand the other, particularly when advanced modern life touches on the profound issues of faith.
Ravi Zacharias is the author of numerous Christian books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award winner Can Man Live without God? He is president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.
Stuart Briscoe was born
England in 1930, graduated from high school at the age of seventeen, and
promptly embarked on a career in banking. He studied law, economics, and
accounting in his spare time and eventually became personal assistant to the
chief inspector of the bank. As he was doing all this, he was also preaching.
For twelve years, preaching and banking kept him fully occupied. Then during
the Korean War, he was drafted into the Royal Marines. In 1959, he and his wife
left the business world to share in the ministry of the Torchbearers, a youth
organization reaching out to the far corners of the world. About ten years
later, Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin, asked him to be their pastor.
The church has since grown to a weekly attendance in excess of seven thousand and
has planted eight sister churches in the Milwaukee area. After thirty years as
senior pastor at Elmbrook, he stepped down to assume the role of
ministers-at-large on the church staff. The recipient of various honorary
doctorates, he has preached in more than one hundred countries and is often invited
to minister for pastors, missionaries, and church lay leaders on all
continents. In his spare time he likes to read, run, and garden.
Dr. D. James Kennedy
(1930-2007) was the founder and senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian
Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for over forty-eight years. By the time of
his death, the church’s membership had grown to nearly ten thousand
congregants. He was also one of the leading American Christian broadcasters,
with his weekly religious television program The Coral Ridge Hour reaching a peak audience of three million
viewers. He was inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters association’s
Hall of Fame in 2003. Dr. Kennedy died of a heart attack in 2007.
About Various
Fred Sanders, an actor and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has received critics’ praise for his audio narrations that range from nonfiction, memoir, and fiction to mystery and suspense. He been seen on Broadway in The Buddy Holly Story, in national tours for Driving Miss Daisy and Big River, and on such television shows as Seinfeld, The West Wing, Will and Grace, Numb3rs,Titus, and Malcolm in the Middle. His films include Sea of Love, The Shadow, and the Oscar-nominated short Culture. He is a native New Yorker and Yale graduate.