When co-workers, neighbors, or even family members challenge your faith, are you always ready with an answer?
In Letters to a Troubled Church, Ray Stedman uses Paul's epistles to the church in Corinth to guide you through such difficult matters as atheism, divorce, Christlike love versus worldy love, the roles of men and women, and moral "gray" areas that confront you in today's world.
Ray uses everyday language with solid biblical insight to help you, or a small group, so that you will be "ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you" (1 Peter 3:15).
Raymond Charles Stedman was an evangelical Christian pastor, and author. He was a long-time pastor of Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California, and author of several books.
Peninsula Bible Fellowship had begun two years earlier as a small Bible study. By 1950 it had grown to the point of needing pastoral care. The directors of Peninsula Bible Fellowship offered the position to Ray in 1950. Peninsula Bible Fellowship became Peninsula Bible Church, and Ray's leadership here was to last forty years, culminating in his retirement as a pastor and elder on April 30, 1990.
Ray was known for his humor and warmth. His gentle personality allowed all those who met him to feel instantly at ease. At the height of his career, when he was speaking internationally; Ray often would return home to Palo Alto and listen to Peninsula Bible Church interns preach from the church pulpit. Regarding Ray's impact, Chuck Swindoll said "Ray Stedman is what I want to be when I grow up."
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