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WASHINGTON – How would you like to have one of America’s top Bible teachers in your home every week – or even every day – for personal instruction, verse-by-verse in every book of the holy scriptures?
It’s not only possible – it’s affordable and practical – with gifted Bible teacher Chuck Missler’s video series of expositional commentaries.
Here’s the latest – the Books of Amos and Hosea – the prophets to the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
But the WND Superstore has the entire collection – a virtual video treasure trove of Bible teaching by a renowned, independent expositor who takes the scriptures both literally and seriously.
Both Missler and his wife, Nancy, were raised in Southern California. He demonstrated an aptitude for technical interests as a youth. He became a ham radio operator at age 9 and started piloting airplanes as a teen-ager. While still in high school, Chuck built a digital computer in the family garage.
His plans to pursue a doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford University were interrupted when he received a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Graduating with honors, Missler took his commission in the Air Force. After completing flight training, he met and married Nancy. He joined the missile program and eventually became branch chief of the Department of Guided Missiles.
Missler made the transition from the military to the private sector when he became a systems engineer with TRW, a large aerospace firm. He then went on to serve as a senior analyst with a non-profit think tank where he conducted projects for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. During that time, Missler earned a master’s degree in engineering at UCLA, supplementing previous graduate work in applied mathematics, advanced statistics and information sciences.
Recruited into senior management at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Mich., Missler established the first international computer network in 1966. He left Ford to start his own company, a computer network firm that was subsequently acquired by Automatic Data Processing (listed on the New York Stock Exchange) to become its Network Services Division.
Returning to California, Missler found himself consulting and organizing corporate development deals, serving on the board of directors at several firms and specializing in the rescuing of financially troubled technology companies. He brought several companies out of Chapter 11 and into profitable operation.
As Missler notes, his day of reckoning came later when – as the result of a merger – he found himself the chairman and a major shareholder of a small, publicly owned development company known as Phoenix Group International. The firm established an $8 billion joint venture with the Soviet Union to supply personal computers to their 143,000 schools. Due to several unforeseen circumstances, the venture failed. The Misslers lost everything, including their home, automobiles and insurance.
It was during this difficult time that Missler turned to full-time ministry. As a child he developed an intense interest in the Bible; studying it became a favorite pastime. In the 1970s, while still in the corporate world, Missler began leading weekly Bible studies at the 30,000-member Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in California. He and his wife established Koinonia House, a teaching ministry, in 1973.
Chuck and Nancy Missler are the authors of several books, including their latest, “The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: An Overcomer’s Handbook.”
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