Mark A. Finley (born July 23, 1945) is an American former host and director of ''
It Is Written'' (from 1991–2004), for which he traveled around the world as a
televangelist
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. He was the first
Seventh-day Adventist
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pastor
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to do a satellite
evangelistic series. He also served as one vice-president out of nine for the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Life and career
Finley's mother was Catholic, and his father was Protestant, with Finley being raised Catholic.
Finley was baptized in March 1963. He studied theology at Atlantic Union College (AUC) in South Lancaster, Massachusetts.
He was a television speaker for the series ''Experience Hope'', a weekly broadcast of the
Hope Channel.
Finley has preached 17 NET series. He also writes a series of Bible studies published monthly in ''Adventist World''.
He is now hosting his own Bible study broadcast called "Hopelives365
" available in YouTube.
Books
*''2000 and Beyond''
*''End Time Living''
*''The Next Superpower''
*''Satisfied''
*''Solid Ground''
*''Studying Together''
*''Thirteen Life-Changing Secrets''
*''Revelation's Predictions for a New Millennium''
Books co-authored with
Steven R. Mosley:
*''A Religion that Works''
*''Confidence Amid Chaos''
*''Faith Against the Odds''
*''Jerusalem Showdown''
*''Hope for a New Century''
*''Looking for God in all the Wrong Places''
*''Questioning the Supernatural''
*''Revelation's Three Most Wanted''
*''Unshakable Faith''
*''When Faith Crumbles''
*''Why So Many Denominations?''
Books co-authored with
George Vandeman, the founder of It Is Written:
*''The Overcomers''
See also
*
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sa ...
*
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbat ...
*''
It Is Written''
References
External links
*, in a message to the
General Youth Conference in 2004
Finding God Through Net '96, gratitude expressed by Jeff Teater
*Article
about Finleyan
by Finley as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)
*http://www.adventist.org web site of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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1945 births
Living people
American religious writers
Protestant writers
Seventh-day Adventist religious workers
American television evangelists
American Seventh-day Adventists
Place of birth missing (living people)