Point of View host, Kerby Anderson welcomes Ron Greer, in-studio. They’ll be discussing Man in the Mirror Ministries and Ron’s passion to reach and impact the lives of men for Christ.
Then we hear from Rod Gragg, award-winning author of more than twenty books on topics in American history. He tells us about his latest book, “The Word: The History Of The Bible And How it Came To Us.”
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Ron was born in the segregated south in Denmark (Jackson), Tennessee in 1956, moved to inner-city Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1965, and later married Rosalyn Swan & moved to Madison, Wisconsin where they lived for 25 yrs.
Ron served as an “In-Prison Seminar” instructor for Prison Fellowship Ministries from 1983 to 2003, as a In-Prison Bible Study leader, and a popular prison and motivational speaker throughout Wisconsin and the U.S. He also served as Field Services Director of the Central U.S. for “Network for Life”, an aftercare ministry of Prison Fellowship Ministries, the Ministry Delivery Team Manager for the state of Wisconsin for Prison Fellowship and later the founder and Executive Director of “Fellowship House”, a Christian transitional home for ex-prisoners. He and his family have shared their home with over 35 individuals, 27 of which were ex-prisoners, along with homeless individuals and families with whom they ministered the love of Christ, helping them through the transition back into the community.
Ron was a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District in 1998, the Republican nominee in 2002, and a candidate in 2004, believing in the critical need for Conservative, committed Christian leadership in public policy. He has enjoyed the endorsements of several national leaders, both religious & political, including, Chuck Colson, James Dobson, Gary Bauer, David Keene, Allan Keys, Morton Blackwell, J.C. Watts, and Reggie White, just to name a few. He has testified before Congressional Briefings & other public policy forums dealing with a wide range of public policy issues and their impact on marriage, the family. He has been featured in numerous publications including those of Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Christianity Today, World Magazine, and Human Events; as well as in Chuck Colson’s bestselling book, “How Now Shall We Live”. He has also been featured on numerous television and radio broadcast in both Christian and secular markets, including ABC’s World News Tonight.
Married 39 years, Ron and his wife Rosalyn, an educator and Guidance Counselor, live in Little Elm, Texas and are the recipients of God’s gift of three sons, 37, 34, and 32 yrs, 3 daughters-in-law, and 3 precious grandchildren. He and Rosalyn’s work with children & youth span some 25+ years in neighborhoods, churches and public schools. Ron’s passion to reach and impact the lives of men for Christ span over 35 years. It continues to be his primary focus and passion to this day.
Another work, Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, earned the Fletcher Pratt Award from the New York City Civil War Roundtable and was the basis of a PBS documentary, and his recent book, My Brother’s Keeper: Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Holocaust, was named as a finalist for the 2017 Christian Book Award. Gragg’s latest release is The Word: The History of The Bible and How it Came to Us.
Gragg is director of the CresCom Bank Center for Military & Veterans Studies at Coastal Carolina University, where he also serves as an adjunct professor of history. He is a popular public speaker and has appeared on numerous national broadcast programs, including CBN News, Daystar TV, “Fox and Friends” on the Fox News Channel, and “Morning Joe” on MSNBC.
He and his wife live near Myrtle Beach, S.C., and are the parents of seven grown children.
The Word provides a sweeping panorama of biblical revelation, preservation and transmission and the background story of those who devoted their lives and sometimes suffered death to translate and transmit the Word of God. In the process, this highly readable narrative likewise follows the history of Christianity and unfolds its unforgettable story with a writing style aimed at the general reader and a level of scholarship that will appeal to history-lovers and serious students of the Bible. A truly unique history of the world s most popular book, The Word is perfectly suited for such a time as this.