Meet Our Authors

For international Bible teacher Kay Arthur, Bible study is more than an important spiritual exercise. "When you open the Word of God, it changes you. It puts everything into perspective," she says. "It´s not a textbook. It´s the very words of life."

Kay and her husband, Jack, founded Precept Ministries International in 1970 with a vision of establishing people in God´s Word. Since then, Precept Ministries has spread across the U.S. and into nearly 150 countries, teaching millions how to discover the truth of the Bible. Its inductive Bible studies have been translated into almost 70 languages.

Kay hosts Precepts for Life, a radio and television program that reaches a worldwide audience of more than 94 million. She has authored more than 100 books and Bible studies, including Lord, I Want to Know You (WaterBrook Press) and How to Study Your Bible (Harvest House). She and Jack live in Tennessee. Learn more about Kay and her ministry at precept.org.

Bill Johnson believes that a gospel without power is not the gospel that Jesus preached. He and his wife, Brenda, are the senior pastors at Bethel Church in Redding, California, where healings, miracles and supernatural encounters with God take place on a regular basis.

The key, he believes, is intimacy with God. "The Father, by the Holy Spirit, directed all that Jesus said and did," Bill explains. "It was the intimacy that Jesus had with His heavenly Father that became the foundation for all the signs, wonders and miracles."

In addition to pastoring at Bethel, Bill and Brenda serve a growing apostolic network of churches that have crossed denominational lines to seek revival. Bill is the author of numerous books, including his latest, Face to Face With God (Charisma House). He speaks at conferences in the U.S. and around the world. Check out his ministry at bjm.org.

As a sincere young atheist, Alicia Britt Chole believed that God was nothing more than a man-made idea. But in 1983, she says, a very real God "interrupted my existence He captured my soul with raw love." Today "God´s tangible friendship still amazes me," she admits. "To deny His existence, I´d have to first deny my own."

With genuineness, vulnerability and humor, Alicia addresses church leaders, women´s groups, college students and others on topics such as conflict and disillusionment, transition, hope and becoming a woman of God. She is the author of several books and audio/video series, including Anonymous, Pure Joy, The Making of a Mentor and Sitting in God´s Sunshine.

A wife and mother, Alicia and her husband, Barry, and their three children live in Rogersville, Missouri. Visit her online at onewholeworld.com.

Most of Barbara Wentroble´s reasons for quitting the ministry she started sounded reasonable, spiritual even. But she had no defense when that sticky issue of obedience to the calling of God came up. Eventually, she settled the matter for good.

As the visionary founder of International Breakthrough Ministries (internationalbreak throughministries.org) Barbara oversees an apostolic network that unites business leaders and church leaders for opportunities in the kingdom of God. She is the author of several books, including Rise to Your Destiny, Woman of God (Regal Books). Barbara and her husband, Dale, live near Dallas.