The author is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary (1973), a former pastor of Trinity Bible Church in Gulfport, Mississippi, a former teacher at Muncie Christian School in Kansas City and Overland Christian Schools in Overland Park, Kansas, and for a few years associate professor in the Bible and Theology Department of Kansas Christian College in Overland Park, Kansas. Now retired, my wife and I reside with our two sons and their wives, part of the year in Portsmouth, RI and the other part in Sunshine, Arkansas. (It's near Hot Springs.)