Christianity in Spiritual Perspective: Are You Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781456338008)

Dr. James A. Brettell, born in Mingo Junction, Ohio, November 2, 1934, graduated Mingo Junction High School in 1952, worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the F.B.I., played professional baseball in the Pittsburgh Pirate system, and served nine years in the United States Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. He earned All-Navy recognition for pitching two baseball no-hitters within four days, and pitched in the "world series" finals of military baseball in 1957. He was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the "Castro revolution" and stationed in Trinidad during the Cuban missile crisis. He was saved at age 27 while stationed at the U.S. Naval Station, Trinidad, W.I. His academic background is diverse. He studied at George Washington University, College of Steubenville, Kent State University, Akron University, Oklahoma University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Luther Rice Seminary, and University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His earned degrees: B.S. in Ed. from Akron University; MDiv and DMin from Luther Rice Seminary. His pastorates: North Maple Baptist Church, Stuttgart, Arkansas; South Highland Baptist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas; Bible Doctrine Church of Little Rock; Bible Doctrine Church of the Deaf; and presently pastors the Little Rock NetChurch. He has made twenty missions trips to Mindanao, and two to Seoul, Korea. He has been a Youth Camp speaker and has hosted an annual Arkansas Winter Family Retreat. He has hosted several of his own radio programs and a television program. He hosts a ninety minute daily radio program, a Monday Night Home Bible Study, Little Rock NetChurch Sunday morning worship services and Sunday evening Webex meeting. He has streamed ten "live" video services a week to the internet. He has been married to Janet Shawhan Brettell since 1956 and has three adult children, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.