Dr. Stanley Toussaint is a world-renown authority on the New Testament. He taught as Senior Professor in Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary, and served as former president of the Western Bible Institute in Denver, Colorado.He also pastored for twenty years. Dr. Toussaint earned both his Th.M and Th.D. degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary. An editor,...
Kyle and Cristina Thomas have been missionaries in Pucallpa, Peru since 2005. Both grew up in ministry, Kyle with Torchbearers International in England and Cristina as a missionary kid in Peru. Kyle received his BS in natural history illustration at Blackpool College in England, and Cristina received her BA in elementary education at the University of Arizona in the U.S. ...
Tom Terry is a Broadcast Specialist, having worked in talent and administrative positions in broadcasting for 30 years. Tom has helped build and train staff of Christian radio and TV stations in three countries. Tom served as President of Eagle Television in Mongolia, that nation’s first independent TV station after the fall of communism. While in Mongolia, Tom hosted the...
“No church leader understands better how to navigate the seas of the 21st century.” Len Sweet’s three-ring mission: as a historian of American culture; as a futurist/semiotician who "sees things the rest of us do not see, and dreams possibilities that are beyond most of our imagining;" and as a preacher and writer who communicates the gospel powerfully to a postmodem...
Kent guides the direction of Church Relevance, exploring the intersection of theology and methodology – what we do vs what Christ said.. He is a ministry organizational strategist who has spent the past few years working on tech startups and consulting for groups such as LifeChurch.tv , Saddleback Church , and Skylark Audio Video. While known most for his thoughts on...
Francis Frangipane was born in 1946 and grew up in Lodi, New Jersey. After graduating from high school in 1964, Frangipane entered the U.S. Air Force, where he was discharged honorably as a sergeant on February 2, 1969. He relocated briefly to Berkeley, California and then Honolulu, Hawaii before returning to the mainland U.S. These were the days when the hippie movement was...
Warren Bird, Ph.D., who has a great heart for working with innovative pastors and church leaders, is the Director of Research and Intellectual Capital Support for Leadership Network. In that role, he oversees a team of researchers, freelance writers and graphic artists who generate a steady stream of fresh knowledge products. Warren also spearheads ongoing research initiatives...
Russell Moore serves as the eighth president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. A widely-sought cultural commentator, Dr. Moore has been recognized by a number of influential organizations. The Wall Street Journal has called him “vigorous,...