Gary L. Carver is pastor of First Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He has also served as pastor of churches in Alabama and Indiana. Carver is a graduate of Samford University (B.A.) and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div. and D.Min.), and has done additional graduate study at Candler School of Theology and Harvard Divinity School. Carver has had over 50 sermons and articles appear in a variety of church and clergy publications, including Lectionary Homiletics, Preaching, and The Abingdon Minister's Manual, and he is the author of Acting On The Absurd, Distinctively Different...