Ligon Duncan is Senior Minister at First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS. He is also President of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Chairman of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and Adjunct Professor at Reformed Theological Seminary. He was born in Greenville, SC and reared in a Christian home. Ligon received his MDiv and MA at Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis and took his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Among recent books he has written, edited or contributed to are Women's Ministry in the Local Church,(co-author); In My Place Condemned He Stood,(contributing author); Preaching the Cross (contributing author; all Crossway); Fear Not: Death and the Afterlife from a Christian Perspective (Christian Focus Press). Ligon and his wife, Anne, are the parents of daughter, Sarah Kennedy and son, Jennings.

Mark Johnston was born in Belfast and took his ministerial training at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia. He began his ministry doing church planting work in Ireland. He spent ten years in that work before accepting a call to Grove Chapel - a historic Calvinistic Independent Church in London. Mark is one of the trustees of the Banner of Truth Trust and a conference speaker at Banner and other conferences. He has authored the following books: Child of a King; and You in Your Small Corner (both Christian Focus Publications); Let's Study John; and Let's Study 2 Peter and Jude (both from Banner of Truth). Mark is married to Fiona and they have two grown children - Lindsay and Andrew. His recreational passions in life include Fly Fishing and Photography.