Dr. Robert Jeffress is senior pastor of the thirteen-thousand-member First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, a Fox News contributor, and an adjunct professor at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Dr. Jeffress has made more than two thousand guest appearances on various radio and television programs and regularly appears on major mainstream media outlets such as Fox News channel’s Fox and Friends, Hannity, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Varney and Co., and Judge Jeanine; ABC’s Good Morning America; and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
Dr. Jeffress hosts a daily radio program, Pathway to Victory, that is heard nationwide on over 930 stations in major markets such as Dallas–Fort Worth, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Seattle. His weekly television program can be seen in 195 countries and on 11,295 cable and satellite systems throughout the world, including China, and on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Daystar.
Dr. Jeffress is the author of over twenty books, including When Forgiveness Doesn’t Make Sense, Countdown to the Apocalypse, Not All Roads Lead to Heaven, and A Place Called Heaven: 10 Surprising Truths about Your Eternal Home.
Dr. Jeffress has a DMin from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a BS from Baylor University. In May 2010 he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree from Dallas Baptist University, and in June 2011 he received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Jeffress and his wife, Amy, have two daughters and three grandchildren.