Chuck Swindoll - Author, Pastor, Teacher, Speaker

Charles R. "Chuck" Swindoll (born October 18, 1934) is an evangelical Christian pastor, educator and radio preacher. He was born in El Campo, Texas (Wharton County), the third of three children born to Earl and Lovell Swindoll. He graduated from Charles H. Milby High School in Houston. Before a life in Christian ministry, Chuck initially pursued his interest in mechanical engineering, and also served with the United States Marine Corps in Southeast Asia. He married his wife, Cynthia, in 1955 and they have four children. Swindoll entered Dallas Theological Seminary in 1959, where he graduated magna cum laude four years later.

Chuck Swindoll was ordained into the ministry in 1963, and served in Dallas, Texas under J. Dwight Pentecost for two years. He has since held senior pastorates in Waltham, Massachusetts (1965-1967), Irving, Texas (1967-1971), and Fullerton, California (1971-1994). Though Swindoll is widely regarded as an Evangelical Free Church of America preacher, the Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, of which he has been senior pastor since 1998, is not a member of the EFCA¹.

Swindoll is the founder of and speaker on a popular radio broadcast, Insight for Living, which airs on Christian and non-Christian radio markets and now has a growing webcast audience. The program is heard on over 2100 stations in about 16 different languages. Its roots go back to the summer of 1977, when Swindoll's sermons from the First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton began to be broadcast on radio stations. In 1979, the Insight for Living radio ministry began. The offices of Insight for Living are located in Plano, Texas.