- Jerry Lamon Falwell Jr
Last week, the city of Lynchburg, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the entire country lost one of our dearest sons in the passing of Rev. Falwell. Today Dr. Falwell was laid to rest. I am sad that business here in Washington kept many of us from being able to attend today's services, but since we were unable to attend, we have joined here tonight to pay homage to this great leader. Dr. Falwell's legacy is one that will not soon be forgotten. - Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen is a native Texan and the Pastor of Lakewood Church, which according to Church Growth Today is America's largest and fastest growing church. On July 16, 2005 after completing $95 million dollars in renovations, Joel moved Lakewood Church into its new 16,000-seat home - the former Compaq Center. It is the largest regularly-used worship center in the United States. Each week Joel delivers God's message of hope and encouragement to more than 38,000 attendees. - Max Lucado
Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and well-known minister. Lucado has written more than 50 books with 28 million copies in print, and currently serves as senior minister at Oak Hills Church (formerly Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas. After serving in this capacity for 20 years, Lucado announced in early 2007 that he is stepping down due to health concerns related to atrial fibrillation. Lucado was born in 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, … - Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll (born October 11, 1970 in Grand Forks, ND) is an American minister and author. The co-founder and teaching pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, he also co-founded the Acts 29 Network, and has contributed to the "Faith and Values" section of the Seattle Times. He also recently helped to start The Resurgence, a repository of missional theology resources. Driscoll graduated in 1989 from Highline High School, … - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plots planned by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in March 1943, imprisoned, and eventually hanged just before the end of the World War II in Europe. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. - Rob Bell
Robert "Rob" Bell (born August 23 1970) is an author, Christian speaker, and the founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is also the featured speaker in the first series of spiritual short films called NOOMA. Bell and his wife, Kristen, have two boys and live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which he affectionately calls "G-Rap". - Bill Hybels
Bill Hybels Senior Pastor Willow Creek Community Church Chairman of the Board Willow Creek Association - Norman Vincent Peale
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church for 52 years and one of the most influential religious figures of the 20th Century. The author of 46 books, including the all-time inspirational best-seller, The Power of Positive Thinking . With Marble Church as a base, Dr. Peale launched far-reaching innovations in the decades of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. - Chuck Swindoll
Charles Rozell "Chuck" Swindoll (born October 18, 1934) is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He is also the founder of Insight for Living, which airs a radio program of the same name on more than 2,000 stations around the world in 15 languages. Insight for Living is currently headquartered in Plano, Texas. - Chuck Smith
Charles Ward “Chuck” Smith is the founder of Calvary Chapel and is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Smith was born in Ventura, California to Charles and Maude Smith. His wife, Kay, directs Costa Mesa’s women’s ministry, and his son Jeff works at The Word For Today organization and CSN International. Smith’s other three children also work in the ministry. - Adrian Rogers
Adrian Pierce Rogers, Th.D., was an American pastor, author, and a three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979-1980 and 1986-1988). Supporters have described him as the apostle Paul of Southern Baptists. Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and decided to enter into the Christian ministry at the age of nineteen. Rogers was ordained by Northwood Baptist Church in West Palm Beach. - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray (9 May 1828-18 January 1917) was a Christian pastor in South Africa. Murray was the child of Dutch Reformed Church missionaries from Scotland to South Africa, and the younger brother of John Murray. Educated at the University of Utrecht, he was ordained by the Hague Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church on May 9, 1848. He pastored churched in Bloemfontein and Worcester, Cape Town, Wellington, South Africa. He married Emma Rutherford Murray in Cape Town, … - Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit ministry devoted to promoting an eternal viewpoint and drawing attention to people in special need of advocacy and help. Christianbook.com recently spoke with Randy about heaven and about his writing. - Andy Stanley
Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church. He also founded North Point Ministries, which is a worldwide Christian organization. - Luis Palau
Luis Palau - Evangelist Story of evangelist, Luis Palau More information on the Luis Palau ministry View his VIDEO - John Ortberg
John Ortberg, once teaching pastor at Willow Creek, now at Menlo Park Presbyterian has some - James MacDonald
Dr. James MacDonald (b. 1960) is a popular Evangelical Christian speaker and pastor. He is the founding pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel and later Harvest Bible Fellowship. MacDonald is also well known for his radio ministry, Walk in the Word. MacDonald was born in London, Ontario, Canada in 1960. He received his Master's Degree in 1988 from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois and his Doctorate from Phoenix Seminary in 1996. - Tony Evans
Tony Evans is a Christian pastor and a widely-syndicated radio broadcaster. He serves as Senior Pastor to the over 7,500 member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas, which was founded over 30 years ago. He is also founder and president of The Urban Alternative, a national organization that seeks to bring about spiritual renewal in urban America through the church. The Urban Alternative radio broadcast, "The Alternative with Dr. - D. James Kennedy
Dr. D. James Kennedy , Senior Pastor -- Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church - John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell (born 1947) is an American pastor, author, and "leadership expert." He is the founder of Injoy, a "people development company." He graduated from Azusa Pacific University. Maxwell has written over forty books (mostly on leadership), including "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" (with Zig Ziglar) and "The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow", among others. - Erwin Lutzer
Erwin W. Lutzer (born October 3, 1941) is an evangelical Christian pastor, teacher, and author. He is currently the senior pastor of The Moody Church. - Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore was a Modernist American poet and writer. - Douglas Wilson
Douglas James Wilson (born 18 June 1953) is a conservative Reformed and evangelical theologian, pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, faculty member at New Saint Andrews College, and prolific author and speaker. - Gary Gilley
Gary E. Gilley (born 1950) is an American evangelical pastor, author, and speaker. He has served as pastor of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, Illinois since 1975 and has written several books on what he sees as the growing influence of worldly philosophies and methodologies in the evangelical church. - Jack W. Hayford
Jack Hayford , President, Four Square Church denomination - Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and founder of analytical psychology. Jung's unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, … - W.A. Criswell
Wallie Amos Criswell, Ph.D. (December 19, 1909 – January 10, 2002), was an American pastor, author, and a two-term elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1968 to 1969. Supporters have described him as the patriarch of the "Conservative Resurgence" within the SBC. Criswell was born in Eldorado, Oklahoma, and felt a divine call to enter the Christian ministry as a teenager. - John F. MacArthur
John F. MacArthur, Jr. (born June 14, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Reformed evangelical writer and minister, most noted for his radio program entitled "Grace to You". MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as President of The Master's College (and the related Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California. - Henri Nouwen
The internationally renowned priest and author, respected professor and beloved pastor Henri Nouwen wrote over 40 books on the spiritual life. He corresponded regularly in English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish with hundreds of friends and reached out to thousands through his Eucharistic celebrations, lectures and retreats. Since his death in 1996, ever-increasing numbers of readers, writers, teachers and seekers have been guided by his literary legacy. - J. R. Miller
James Russell Miller (March 20, 1840 - July 2, 1912) was a popular Christian author, Editorial Superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, and pastor of several churches in Pennsylvania and Illinois. - E. W. Kenyon
Essek William Kenyon [aka] E. W. Kenyon (1867-1948) was an evangelist pastor of the New Covenant Baptist Church and president of the Bethel Bible Institute in Spencer, Massachusetts, for twenty-five years. The school later moved to Providence, Rhode Island and became Providence Bible Institute. It later became Barrington College and merged with Gordon College, which was named after one of Kenyon's many mentors, A.J. Gordon. - Mark Finley
Mark Finley is the best known as the former speaker/director of It Is Written (from 1991–2004), where he traveled around the world as a televangelist, and spoke on the weekly television show It Is Written. He was the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor to do a satellite evangelistic series. He currently serves as a vice-president for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and has written over 60 published books. - Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes was an American theologian, born at Rome, New York, on December 1, 1798. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey (1825–1830), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1830–1867). - Walter Wangerin Jr.
Walter Wangerin, Jr. (born February 13, 1944) is an award-winning American author and educator best known for his religious novels and children's books. - Mike Yaconelli
Mike Yaconelli - writer, theologian, and satirist. Founder of Youth Specialities (the training organisation for Christian youth leaders); and The Door (formerly "The Wittenburg Door") satirical magazine. Quote: "Jump first; Fear later" Yaconelli was also pastor of a small church in Yreka, CA - "the slowest growing church in America" as he called it. He and wife Karla used to share their time between Yreka and the Youth Specialities offices in San Diego, CA. - Lee Roberson
Lee Edward Roberson (24 November 1909 - 29 April 2007), is world-renowned in religious circles. He is most known for founding the Tennessee Temple University and Camp Joy both in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dr. Roberson was born in a two-room log cabin on November 24, 1909, and spent his first two years on a farm near English, Indiana, a small town in the southern part of the state. In 1911, his parents, Mr. And Mrs. Charles E. Roberson, took him to a farm near Louisville, … - Jon Courson
Jon Courson is a Christian leader and pastor in the United States. In 1977, Courson founded the Applegate Christian Fellowship, a non-denominational church in southern Oregon with a congregation of twenty people, which grew to 8,000 people by 2002. Today, 3,000 people attend Applegate each week. In addition, Courson speaks nationally and internationally at churches, conferences, and retreats. - Bo Giertz
Bo Harald Giertz, was a Swedish Confessional Lutheran bishop and Christian novelist. Giertz' characteristic combination of the pietistic type of care of souls with his High Church Lutheran theology, which can also be noticed in his novels, made him listened beyond boundaries. It also made his novels as well as non-fictional books about Christian faith popular in all Scandinavia. Most famous of his novels is "The Hammer of God" ("Stengrunden", 1941). - Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson is an award-winning American author of books for children. She was born in China on October 31, 1932 to missionary parents. She graduated with a degree in English from King College in Bristol, Tennessee. She then spent a year at a rural school in Virginia before going to graduate school. She received a Master's degree and worked as a missionary in Japan.
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