Samuel C. Williamson

Sam Williamson is the son of a pastor, the grandson of missionaries, a speaker, a writer, and--he hopes--a thought-provocateur. He studied European intellectual history at the University of Michigan. Finding no jobs in European intellectual history, he spent twenty-five years in the mundane business of business, the last two decades as an executive and owner of a software company. After his twenty-five year stint in business, he felt called to ministry. He founded Beliefs of the Heart. Its mission is to help us examine the unexplored convictions that drive us. Why do we do what we don't want to do? What unseen forces motivate us? What is going on beneath the surface? How can knowing God--connecting with the Almighty--change us forever? Sam is the author of: Hearing God in Conversation--How to Recognize His Voice Everywhere, and, Is Sunday School Destroying Our Kids?--How Moralism Suffocates Grace. He loves to read Tim Keller (especially Counterfeit Gods and Prayer), C. S. Lewis (everything), Dallas Willard (Hearing God and The Spiritual Disciplines), Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest and Approved Unto God), Ann Voskamp (One Thousand Gifts), Miroslav Volf (Free of Charge and Exclusion and Embrace), and J. I. Packer (Knowing God). Sam and his wife, Carla, live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have four grown children and an ever increasing number of grandchildren. In his free time he loves sailing, skiing, and scuba diving. He writes a weekly article on his blog, http://beliefsoftheheart.com/