Authors

Trent Casto (MDiv, Covenant Theological Seminary; DMin, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the senior pastor at Covenant Church of Naples (PCA) in Naples, Florida. He and his wife, Emily, have three children.

Christopher Caudle (MA, Reformed Theological Seminary) is rector of New Covenant Church in Winter Springs, Florida. He was ordained as a priest in the Anglican church in 2009. Prior to his ordination, he worked as a curriculum writer for Third Millennium Ministries.

James M. Chaney (1831–1909) graduated from the William Jewell College in Missouri, received a Masters degree from King College in Tennessee, and a Doctor of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. He was ordained in 1858 by the Lafayette Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, Missouri.

Bryan Chapell is senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinios, and served as president of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis from 2012–2013. He graduated from Northwestern University with his BSJ in journaling, English literature, and American history. He received his MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary and obtained his PhD from Southern Illinois University.

Christine is a certified biblical counselor, the host of the Hope + Help Podcast for the Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship, and a council member for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. She is the author of Midnight Mercies as well as several mini-books and is a regular speaker at women’s events and conferences. Christine lives with her husband and three children in South Carolina, where she is a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Easley.

Stephen Charnock (1628–80) was an English Puritan thinker known for his practical preaching and ability to explain deep doctrinal concepts clearly and persuasively; he also had an interest in physics. He served as a pastor in Dublin, Ireland, for several years before political and religious upheaval resulted in his ejection from pulpit ministry in 1660, along with more than two thousand other nonconformists. Although forbidden to preach publicly, he continued to study and write for fifteen years. When government restrictions eased, he co-pastored a church in London with Thomas Watson from 1675 until his death. He left behind “considerable treatises on some of the most important points of religion” that were collected soon afterward and published posthumously.