John Piper is the Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, where he first sensed God's call to enter the ministry. He went on to earn degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.) and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem. John is the author of more than 30 books and more than 25 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and an increasing number of grandchildren.

Donald A. Carson
Professor of New Testament • Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Donald A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has worked as a pastor in Canada and the United Kingdom. Dr. Carson has degrees from McGill University (B.A.), Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto (M.Div.), and Cambridge University (Ph.D. in New Testament). Dr. Carson's areas of expertise include biblical theology, the historical Jesus, postmodernism, pluralism, Greek grammar, Johannine theology, Pauline theology, and questions of suffering and evil. Dr. Carson has written or edited more than fifty books. Dr. Carson is an active guest lecturer in academic and church settings around the world and is a founding member of The Gospel Coalition. Dr. Carson and his wife, Joy, reside in Libertyville, Illinois.