Mark Finley
{{Short description|American Seventh-day Adventist evangelist (born 1945)}}
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| name = Mark Finley
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|07|23}}
| birth_place = Norwich, Connecticut, U.S.
| occupation = Pastor
Evangelist
Author
Vice President for Evangelism of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
| spouse = Ernestine Finley
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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.{{cite web
| title =The History of It Is Written
| publisher =itiswritten.com
| url =http://www.itiswritten.com/ministry-history
| access-date =April 14, 2015
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150419054520/http://www.itiswritten.com/ministry-history
| archive-date =April 19, 2015
| url-status =dead
}} 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.{{cite web | url=https://adventistreview.org/feature/beyond-retirement/ | title=Beyond Retirement - Adventist Review - Adventist Review | date=29 June 2024 }}
Finley was baptized in March 1963.{{cite web | url=https://adventistreview.org/feature/beyond-retirement/ | title=Beyond Retirement - Adventist Review - Adventist Review | date=29 June 2024 }} He studied theology at Atlantic Union College (AUC) in South Lancaster, Massachusetts.{{cite web | url=https://adventistreview.org/feature/beyond-retirement/ | title=Beyond Retirement - Adventist Review - Adventist Review | date=29 June 2024 }}
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{{Cite web |title=Google Search |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Hopelives365 |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=www.google.com}}" 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
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References
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External links
- {{YouTube|IkJEirTvIEs|Video of Finley}}, in a message to the General Youth Conference in 2004
- "[https://archive.today/20130117073931/http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1997/03/finding-god-through-net-96-0 Finding God Through Net '96]", gratitude expressed by Jeff Teater
- Articles [http://jewel.andrews.edu:82/search/dFinley+Mark about Finley] and [http://jewel.andrews.edu:82/search/aFinley+Mark 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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