Mark Dever
Dr. Mark Dever serves as the Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill
Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. He is the executive director of 9Marks
and has taught at a number of seminaries. Dr. Dever has also authored
several books and articles, including Crossway’s The Deliberate Church,
9Marks of a Healthy Church, Promises Made: The Message of the Old Testament,
and Promises Kept: The Message of the New Testament. He and
his wife, Connie, live and minister with their son, Nathan, on Capitol
Hill in Washington, D.C.

Ligon Duncan
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III is the Senior Minister of First
Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi, and adjunct professor of
theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the Chairman of the
Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and is currently the moderator
of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America. He has
written and edited several books including Give Praise to God, Women’s
Ministry in the Local Church, and The Westminster Confession
into the 21st Century (3 vols. ). Ligon and his wife, Anne, are the
parents of Sarah Kennedy and Jennings.

C.J. Mahaney
C.J. Mahaney leads Sovereign Grace Ministries in its mission
to establish and support local churches. After 27 years of pastoring
Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, C.J. handed the senior
pastor role to Joshua Harris. He serves on the Council of the Alliance
of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE), and on the boards of The Council on
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) and the Christian Counseling and
Educational Foundation (CCEF). He is the author of The Cross Centered
Life, Christ Our Mediator, Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every
Christian Husband Needs to Know, Humility: True Greatness, and Living
the Cross Centered Life. C.J. and his wife Carolyn have three married
daughters and one son. They make their home in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Albert Mohler
Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as the ninth president
of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary—the flagship school of the
Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the
world. He is an ordained minister and is recognized as a leading evangelical
theologian. He has served as pastor and staff minister of several Southern
Baptist churches. Besides hosting a nationwide radio program on the Salem
Radio Network, Dr. Mohler also writes daily commentaries and blogs addressing
theological, moral, and cultural issues. He is a popular preacher, teacher,
and lecturer, as well as a frequent guest on national and international
news outlets. He and his wife, Mary, have two children.

Thabiti Anyabwile
Thabiti Anyabwile serves as the Senior Pastor of First
Baptist Church of Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands). Prior to assuming pastoral
ministry duties at First Baptist Church, Thabiti served as an elder and
assistant pastor for children and families at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. Thabiti holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in psychology from North Carolina
State University and is the author of The Faithful Pastor: Recovering
the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Preachers (Crossway,
2007) and The Decline of African-American Theology: From Biblical
Faithfulness to Cultural Captivity (IVP, forthcoming). Thabiti is
the full-time husband to a loving wife, Kristie, and father to two adorable
daughters, Afiya and Eden, and one son, Titus.

John MacArthur
John MacArthur is the Pastor-Teacher of Grace Community
Church in Sun Valley, California, president of The Master’s College and
Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. Grace to You radio, video, audio, print, and website resources reach
millions worldwide each day. Over four decades of ministry, John has
written dozens of bestselling books, including The MacArthur Study
Bible, The Gospel According to Jesus, The New Testament Commentary series,
The Truth War, and The Jesus You Can’t Ignore. He and his
wife, Patricia, have four married children and fourteen grandchildren.

John Piper
Dr. John Piper is the Senior Pastor at Bethlehem Baptist
Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. John is the author of more than 20
books, many of which focus on living for the glory of God. His preaching
and teaching are featured on the daily radio program Desiring God, and
many of his books and sermons are available through Desiring God Ministries
(desiringGod.org). He and wife, Noël, have four sons, one daughter, and
several grandchildren.

R.C. Sproul
Dr. R.C. Sproul is the founder, chairman and president
of Ligonier Ministries, an international multimedia ministry located
near Orlando, Florida. His teaching can be heard on the program Renewing
Your Mind, which is broadcast on hundreds of radio outlets in the
United States and in 40 countries worldwide. Dr. Sproul is the executive
editor of Tabletalk magazine and general editor of The Reformation
Study Bible. He currently serves as senior minister of preaching
and teaching at Saint Andrew’s in Sanford, FL. Dr. Sproul is the author
of more than seventy books and scores of articles for national evangelical
publications.

Matt Chandler
Matt Chandler serves as Lead Pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, TX. During his seven-year “re-planting effort” at The Village, the congregation has changed theological and philosophical directions and grown from 160 people to over 7,000. Matt is also involved in church planting efforts both locally and internationally through The Village as well as various strategic partnerships. Prior to accepting the pastorate at The Village, Matt had a vibrant itinerant ministry for over 10 years. His greatest joy outside of Jesus is being married to Lauren and being a dad to their three children, Audrey, Reid and Norah.

Eric Bancroft
Eric Bancroft serves as the Senior Pastor of Castleview
Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is equally excited about
his marriage to Danelle and being a father to his three sons, Isaac,
David, and Jeremiah. Prior to his ministry at Castleview he had the
privilege of serving on pastoral staff at Grace Community Church in Los
Angeles, CA and teaching as an adjunct professor at The Master’s College. He is passionate about seeing churches be faithful to the gospel, courageous
leadership reproduced through discipleship, and families led by humble
men with conviction.

Anthony (Tony) Carter
Anthony (Tony) Carter serves as Lead Pastor of East
Point Church, East Point, GA. He is author or editor of several books
including On Being Black and Reformed: A New Look at the African-American
Christian Experience, The Holiness of God: An Attribute First
Among Equals, and Glory Road: The Journeys of 10 African-Americans
into Reformed Christianity. A frequent conference speaker and guest
lecturer, Anthony and his wife Adriane live in the Atlanta, GA area where
they are raising their five children.

Kevin DeYoung
Kevin DeYoung is the Senior Pastor of University Reformed
Church in East Lansing, Michigan, across the street from Michigan State
University. He serves on the board of RCA Integrity, a renewal group
within the Reformed Church in America. He is the co-author of Why
We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be and Why We Love
the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion, and
the author of Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding
God’s Will. Kevin and his wife, Trisha, have four children: Ian,
Jacob, Elizabeth, and Paul.

Greg Gilbert
Greg Gilbert serves as Assistant Pastor of Capitol Hill
Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. He is a frequent writer and blogger
for 9Marks and is the author of What Is The Gospel? (Spring
2010, Crossway) as well as a number of other book chapters and articles. Greg and his wife Moriah live with their three sons(?), Justin, Jack,
and Baby Whatsisname in Washington, D.C.

Brian Habig
Brian Habig planted, and now pastors, Downtown Presbyterian
Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He previously served as a campus
minister with Reformed University Fellowship at Mississippi State University
and Vanderbilt University. He is also the co-author of The Enduring
Community, an introduction to ecclesiology. Brian and his wife
Dana have three children.

Joshua Harris
Joshua Harris is the Senior Pastor of Covenant Life Church
in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a church in the Sovereign Grace network of
churches. He leads Next, an annual conference focused on transferring
the gospel to the next generation. Joshua is the author of several books. His latest is Dug Down Deep (Early 2010, Multnomah), which calls people to build their
lives on sound doctrine. Joshua and his wife Shannon have three children,
Emma, Joshua Quinn, and Mary Kate.

Mike McKinley
Mike McKinley serves as the Pastor of Guilford Baptist
Church, a church plant from Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Sterling,
VA. Mike has authored many articles, rants, screeds, and poorly conceived
conspiracy theories but only his forthcoming book Church Planting
is For Wimps (Spring 2010, Crossway) has seen the light of day, a
fact for which we are all thankful. Mike hails from the Philadelphia
area and is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary. He lives
in Northern Virginia with his wife, Karen, and their children Kendall,
Knox, Phineas, and Ebenezer.

David Platt
Dr. David Platt is the Senior Pastor of The Church at Brook
Hills in Birmingham, AL. Before coming to Brook Hills, David served as
Dean of the Chapel and Assistant Professor of Expository Preaching and
Apologetics at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He travels nationally
and internationally, teaching in seminaries, training leaders in underground
churches, and proclaiming the gospel in unreached areas. David and his
wife, Heather, have two sons and are in the process of adopting a daughter
from Nepal.