Bill Bennett, Ph.D. is Founder of Mentoring Men for the Master (www.mentoringmen.net), and former Senior Pastor of 8,000-member First Baptist Church, Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he served for nineteen years. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University (B.A.), Duke University (M.

A., M.Div.) and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (Ph.D.). He has written fifteen books, including Thirty Minutes to Raise the Dead, a volume on expository preaching. Josh Franklin (www.

joshfranklin.org) has been in local church ministry since 2002 and serves as Senior Pastor of Good Hope Baptist Church in Cary, North Carolina. He is a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.), where he is currently pursuing doctoral studies in expository preaching. He has written several books, including Starting Strong, a volume for new believers.