Rulers: Gospel and Government - Hardcover

Steve Bostrom is a Colorado native, born and raised in Colorado Springs. Captured by the gospel at age seven, he is still gladly held in its thrall. He and his wife, Via, have eight children and eight grandchildren. Steve has planted two churches, pastored two more and started an adoption agency. He serves as pastor at large in Helena, Montana, the capital.
Bobby Griffith is one of the pastors and church planters of City Presbyterian in Oklahoma City. He possesses masters degrees from Covenant Theological Seminary, West Virginia University and is completing a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. He lives in the OKC metro area with his wife and their son, and serves on the board of a local foster care agency.
Dr. David Clyde Jones is professor emeritus of systematic theology and ethics at Covenant Theological Seminary. After serving for two years as a missionary-pastor on Grand Cayman Island in the West Indies, Dr. Jones joined the Seminary faculty in 1967. His special interest, Christian ethics, is reflected in his publications and service on national church committees dealing with subjects such as nuclear war, medical ethics, divorce, and abortion. Dr. Jones sensitivity to these and other issues which directly affect the church have made his classes a special mixture of practical and theoretical material. He is the author of Biblical Christian Ethics. Dr. Jones retired in 2007, but continues to be available for occasional teaching at the seminary and elsewhere, along with his ongoing ministry of writing and consulting on various ethical issues. Dr. Jones and his wife have two sons and six grandchildren.
Glenn Parkinson, a native of Annapolis, Maryland, came to Christ out of atheism as a college student. He studied at Gordon-Conwell and Westminster seminaries. A pastor for almost four decades in what is now the Presbyterian Church in America, Dr. Parkinson has served 33 years at Severna Park Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Severna Park, Maryland. Glenn is blessed with a wife of 39 years, one daughter, two grandsons, and a cat.
Steven C. Preston has headed two federal agencies, serving on the Cabinet of George W. Bush, first as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (2006-2008) and later as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2008-2009). He has also had an extensive private sector career as a CEO, a CFO and an investment banker.
Dr. Harry L. Reeder, III, is the senior pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Increasingly his time outside the pulpit is spent doing conferences on Christian manhood and effective leadership. Additionally Dr. Reeder is devoted to the ministry of church revitalization and leads a number of seminars each year both nationally and internationally. He authored The Leadership Dynamic and From Embers to a Flame and is under contract for several more books.
Dr. Rodney Wood has served in ministry to the Louisiana State Senate and House of Representatives since 1993. Since the year 2000, he has led the Louisiana Legislators Bible Study/Prayer Breakfast, which meets weekly during the legislative session. Dr. Wood has also served in pastoral ministry in the U.S. and has done interim pastoral work in the UK and Ethiopia. He has preached and taught in many countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is a preaching facilitator with Langham Partnership International. Rodney and his wife Becky live in Baton Rouge, and have three married adult sons, seven grandchildren, and a daughter and granddaughter with the Lord.