Speakers


Alistair Begg

Alistair Begg is the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, a daily and weekend program that brings the exposition of Scripture to a global audience through radio, podcast, and a wide range of digital and streaming platforms. Since its launch in 1995, Truth For Life has featured teaching drawn from Alistair’s decades of faithful preaching at Parkside Church, where he served as senior pastor from 1983 until 2025.

Hershael York

Hershael York is dean of the School of Theology at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Victor and Louise Lester Professor of Christian Preaching. Before joining the faculty of Southern Seminary, he pastored Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, and First Baptist Church of Marion in Marion, Arkansas. He is the pastor emeritus of Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Todd Smith

Todd M. Smith is the Senior Pastor of Crossroads Community Church which he founded in 2006. Before his call into ministry and planting Crossroads he managed a successful business career.  He graduated from Talbot Theological Seminary in 2005. When Todd is not studying or preaching verse by verse through the Scriptures, he hosts a weekly podcast called "Faith Made Simple." In 2017 he released the book "Dark Valleys: When You Love Jesus But Hate Life."

Bob Lepine

Bob Lepine is the teaching pastor at Redeemer Community Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, which he helped plant in 2008. He is known to radio and podcast listeners as the former long-time co-host of FamilyLife Today, and the announcer for Truth For Life, the daily and weekend program with Alistair Begg. Today, he is the host of Morning with Bob Lepine on Family Radio, heard on a network of more than 70 radio stations in the US.