Product Description
by M. Glynn Burke (Author)
The season of Lent is 40 days and 6 Sundays as we prepare for the great celebration of Easter Sunday.
Author Biography
Dr. Glynn Burke's sermons and writings address timeless matters of universal appeal, as seen through the Christian worldview. In 1955, at the age of 25, Dr. Burke became one of the youngest ministers ever called to First Christian Church in Maysville, Kentucky. He also served as a minister of First Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri, in the 1960s before taking the position of senior minister of Central Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky. During his 25-year tenure at Central Christian, from 1970 to 1995, Dr. Burke served as president of the Christian Church in Kentucky and of the National Disciples Peace Fellowship. He served as Bible lecturer on a trip to the Holy Land in 1981, and attended world assemblies of the Christian Church throughout Europe and the Middle East. In 1995, he was the co-winner of the Bluegrass Chapter of the National Conference's Lauren K. Weinberg Humanitarian Award. Dr. Burke was born in Junction City, Kentucky. He graduated cum laude from Transylvania University and received his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from College of the Bible (now known as Lexington Theological Seminary), where he served on the Board of Trustees for 23 years. He and his wife, Betty Jean, had three children and four grandchildren.
