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Rick Davis

Rick is the founder and CEO of CCG Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that gives the lion's share of its earnings to charities like Mercy Ships (floating hospital-ships to poor nations), Desire Street Ministries (inner city) and many others. In some ways his journey to success in his professional life has been easier than his journey to confidence in his spiritual life. Starting at age 18, Rick began to experience what he today calls "existential despair"--depression and anxiety caused by an inability to determine any ultimate meaning or purpose to life. Each day he faced an intellectual struggle to find anything to put his faith in that made sense rationally. His twelve-year struggle ended suddenly and completely when he came to faith in Jesus. Since that time, Rick has had a passion to explore and assess the rational aspects and evidences (scientific and other) of various faith systems. On his show, The Things That Matter Most, he shares what he has learned in this important area.

Lael Arrington

Lael Arrington writes and speaks nationally about the challenge to live for God’s Kingdom in today’s culture. With a Master’s in the History of Ideas from the University of Texas (Dallas) she speaks as both an educator and a pastor’s wife. Her books, Worldproofing Your Kids, Pilgrim’s Progress Today and Godsight: Renewing the Eyes of Our Hearts, offer cultural and spiritual insight spiked with imagination and unexpected humor. Lael has taught cultural issues at secular and Christian schools and colleges. Her writing has been featured in Focus on the Family and World magazines, and she has appeared on national radio and television programs, including Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey, At Home Live, Moody’s Morning Show and Janet Parshall's America. An avid reader and a news junkie, Lael enjoys emailing her grown son in Austin from the Tomball area home she shares with Jack, her husband of twenty-eight years. Her rheumatoid arthritis slows her down enough to help her get her writing done.