CJ Mahaney
C.J. Mahaney is one of the leaders and founders of Sovereign Grace Ministries, an organization that exists establish and support local churches. He pastored Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland for 27 years before devoting his full attention to Soveriegn Grace. He serves on the Council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and on the board of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

C.J. is also the author of several books include Humility: True Greatness; Living the Cross-Centered Life; and Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know. He also contributed to Dear Timothy: Letters on Pastoral Ministry, and to two additional volumes in the Foundations for the Family Series (Crossway).

He has also edited or coauthored four books in the Pursuit of Godliness book series, published by Sovereign Grace Ministries.

C.J. and his wife, Carolyn, live in Gaithursburg, Maryland and have three married daughters and one son. They make their home in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Wash., which has been named one of the fastest-growing and most influential churches in America. In addition to his pastorate, Driscoll is co-founder and president of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network, president of TheResurgence.com missional theology cooperative and author of The Radical Reformission and Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

He is also one of five contributors to the book Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches, which outlines the various theological streams of the emerging church on the issues of the Trinity, atonement and Scripture.

Driscoll has two books due out in 2008, Vintage Jesus and Death by Love, as well as a chapter in the book The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World, which is edited by John Piper.

Driscoll lives in Seattle with his wife Grace and their three sons and two daughters.

Danny Akin
As president of Southeastern since January 2004, Daniel Akin brings expository messages to students in chapel, visits student missionaries on the field in closed areas, leads the seminary in continued growth and commitment to its mission and teaches preaching and theology during semesters.

He is a well-known speaker, particularly on the topics of marriage and a biblical view of sex. He is the author of several books including: God on Sex, a commentary on the Song of Solomon and a commentary on the Epistles of John in the New American Commentary series.

Akin also served as editor of the recently-published A Theology for the Church, the first major systematic theology textbook published by B&H Publishing Group. It will serve as a textbook for many institutions and a handbook for church leaders and all believers.

After earning his bachelor's degree from Criswell College, Akin earned his M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Akin is married to Charlotte, and they have four adult sons.

Bill Brown
Dr. William E. Brown is president of Cedarville University, a position he has held since June of 2003, following a 10-year presidency at Bryan College. A graduate of the University of South Florida, Brown holds a master of theology degree and Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary.

As a nationally recognized expert in worldview, Brown has authored three books: Making Sense of Your Faith; Where Have All the Dreamers Gone? Observations from a Biblical Worldview; and Making Sense of Your World with Gary Phillips, and more than one hundred articles for journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and newspapers. He is also the executive producer of re:Films, a film series which helps students discern culture.

Some of Brown's more recent achievements include: writing Fear Factor: Barriers to Intellectual Growth for ACSI Christian School Education magazine, which was also translated into Spanish for the ACSI Educacion Escolar Cristiana magazine; contributing 30 articles for the soon-to-be-published Student Leadership Bible from Nelson Publishing; and having his Re:View study used by several schools in Hong Kong and Korea, as well as nationally broadcast in Romania.

Brown holds memberships in organizations such as the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, and the Evangelical Theological Society. He has also lectured internationally in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South America.

Married since 1976, Brown and his wife, Lynne Jones Brown, are the parents of April and Alex.