DAVID A. REED pastored Immanuel Baptist Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts, from 2017 through 2022. He served for a decade as a contributing editor of Dr. Walter Martin’s Christian Research Journal. Reed taught in 1997 and 2015 at the annual School of Theology at Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle in London and has preached to church groups from Florida to Tokyo. His first book on biblical apologetics was published in 1986 by Baker Book House and sold more than ¼-million copies. Since then he has authored more than twenty books—translated into a dozen languages. His primary web site is BibleNook.com where he provides online worship services and messages for individuals at home and free to use by small groups and churches without a pastor.