John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, as well as an author, conference speaker, president of The Master’s College and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You radio ministry.

In 1969, after graduating with honors from Talbot Theological Seminary, John came to Grace Community Church.  The emphasis of his pulpit ministry is the careful study and verse-by-verse exposition of the Bible, with special attention devoted to the historical and grammatical background behind each passage.  Under John’s leadership, Grace Community Church's two morning worship services fill the 3,000-seat auditorium to capacity.  Several thousand members also participate each week in dozens of fellowship groups and training programs, most led by lay leaders and each dedicated to equipping members for ministry on local, national, and international levels.

In 1985, John became president of The Master's College (formerly Los Angeles Baptist College), a regionally accredited, four-year, liberal arts Christian college in Santa Clarita, California. In 1986, John founded The Master's Seminary, a graduate school dedicated to training men for full-time pastoral roles and missionary work.

John is also president and featured teacher with Grace to You.  Founded in 1969, Grace to You is the nonprofit organization responsible for developing, producing, and distributing John’s books, audiocassettes, and the “Grace to You,” “Portraits of Grace,” and “Grace to You Weekend” radio programs. “Grace to You” airs more than 1,500 times daily throughout the English speaking world reaching all major population centers in the United States, as well as Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, the Philippines, and South Africa,  It also airs more than 450 times daily in Spanish reaching 23 countries, including Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Columbia. In its three-decade history, Grace to You has also distributed more than 12 million audiocassette tapes and more than one hundred study guide titles.

Since completing his first best-selling book The Gospel According to Jesus, in 1988, John has written more than six dozen books and, through Grace to You and retail bookstores, distributed millions of copies worldwide.  Among the bestsellers are titles such as:  The MacArthur Study Bible, Our Sufficiency in Christ, Charismatic Chaos, Rediscovering Expository Preaching, Saved Without a Doubt, Ashamed of the Gospel, The Gospel According to the Apostles, Strength for Today, The Freedom and Power of Forgiveness, The Glory of Heaven, The Murder of Jesus, The MacArthur New Testament Commentary series, the recent bestseller, Successful Christian Parenting, also O Worship the King, The MacArthur Topical Bible, Why One Way,  the award-winning children’s book, I Believe in Jesus, and the timely, Terrorism, Jihad and the Bible.  His newest releases are, Lord, Teach Me to Pray, Safe in the Arms of God and Hard to Believe.   Many of John's books are available on CD-ROM and dozens of titles have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and several other major languages.

John and his wife, Patricia, live in Southern California and have four grown children: Matt, Marcy, Mark, and Melinda.  They also enjoy the enthusiastic company of their thirteen grandchildren--Johnny, Ty, Jessy, KD, Olivia, Susannah, Gracie, Kylee, Andrew, Brooke, Elizabeth, Tommy and Audrey.

Dr. MacArthur has numerous books available for purchase online including:

The Power of Integrity: Building a Life Without Compromise

The Pillars of Christian Character: The Basic Essentials of a Living Faith

The Freedom and Power of Forgiveness