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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.^[1] He was the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor 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.^[2] Finley was baptized in March 1963.^[3] He studied theology at Atlantic Union College (AUC) in South Lancaster, Massachusetts.^[4]

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^[5]", which is also available on YouTube.

Pastor Finley and his wife "started and nurtured" the Living Hope Seventh-day Adventist Community Church, located in Haymarket, Virginia.^[6]

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
• General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
• It Is Written

References

External links

• Video of Finley on YouTube, in a message to the General Youth Conference in 2004
• "Finding God Through Net '96", gratitude expressed by Jeff Teater
• Articles about Finley and by Finley, as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)
• http://www.adventist.org web site of the Seventh-day Adventist Church