12 Thessalonians: A 12-Week Study

About Matt Smethurst

Matt Smethurst is lead pastor of River City Baptist Church in Richmond Virginia. He is the author of several books including Before You Open Your Bible; Before You Share Your Faith; and Deacons. He also cohosts with Ligon Duncan The Everyday Pastor podcast from the Gospel Coalition. Matt and his wife Maghan have five children.J. I. Packer (19262020) served as the Board of Governors Professor of Theology at Regent College. He authored numerous books including the classic bestseller Knowing God. Packer also served as general editor for the English Standard Version Bible and as theological editor for the ESV Study Bible.Dane C. Ortlund (PhD Wheaton College) serves as senior pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church in Naperville Illinois. He is the author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers and Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners. Dane and his wife Stacey have five children.Lane T. Dennis (PhD Northwestern University) is the former president and CEO of Crossway. Before joining Crossway in 1974 he served as a pastor in campus ministry at the University of Michigan (Sault Ste. Marie) and as the managing director of Verlag Grosse Freude in Switzerland. He is the author and/or editor of three books including the Gold Medallion-award-winning book Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer and he is the former chairman of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Dennis serves as the chairman of the ESV (English Standard Version) Bible Translation Oversight Committee and as the executive editor of the ESV Study Bible. Lane and his wife Ebeth live in Wheaton Illinois.