Rex M. Rogers Speaker's Bio
Dr. Rex M. Rogers is an author, speaker, radio host, and leadership and fundraising consultant. He serves as Vice President for The Timothy Group, www.timothygroup.com, a consulting firm located in Kentwood, MI that specializes in helping Christian nonprofit organizations realize their mission by improving executive leadership, sharpening strategic plans, developing relationships, and raising more support via capital campaigns and more.
Dr. Rogers’s website at www.rexmrogers.com includes articles, radio programs, and a blog on contemporary events and issues, as well as a means of contacting him directly via the email address: rex@rexmrogers.com.
Since 1993, Dr. Rogers has been the writer and voice for “Dr. Rex Rogers with Making a Difference,” a daily radio feature applying biblical principles to a wide range of contemporary issues and concerns, such as religion and politics, social values, family and church challenges, biomedical ethics questions, business and economics, philosophy and culture, music and the arts, same sex marriage, education, and more. Dr. Rogers’s program offers brief, practical, and straightforward Christian commentary for immediate everyday use.
“Making a Difference” is also syndicated weekly in print to more than 100 newspapers in 33 states.
Dr. Rogers is the author of Gambling: Don’t Bet On It (Kregel, 2005), previously published as Seducing America: Is Gambling a Good Bet? (Baker, 1997), in which he describes gambling as “bad economics, bad morality, bad fundraising, and bad politics.”
Dr. Rogers has testified before the Michigan legislature on the subject of gambling and has participated in more than 175 media interviews from around the nation on gambling, including nationally syndicated programs “Janet Parshall’s America,” Moody Radio’s “Open Line,” Larry Burkett’s “Money Matters” and “How to Manage Your Money,” and Dr. James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family.” Dr. Rogers was interviewed for Focus on the Family’s Radio and CD series, “Pastor to Pastor: Difficult Issues” with Rev. H.B. London, Jr. on the topic of gambling. Dr. Rogers participated in television interviews about gambling for a CBN News piece with CBN anchorman Lee Webb, for “100 Huntley Street” with co-host Rhonda Glenn, broadcast throughout Canada from Toronto, Ontario, and for “Connected Coast to Coast” with co-hosts Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley for MSNBC.
Dr. Rogers is the author of a book entitled Christian Liberty: Living for God in a Changing Culture, published by Baker Book House in August, 2003. This book is built upon two premises: 1) “The single greatest obstacle to Christians accomplishing the Cultural Mandate and Great Commission is our inability to deal with social change,” and 2) “Christian liberty is the least understood and least practiced doctrine in the Bible.” This book is about social and cultural change and how to interact with it, including the so-called “Christian culture wars” and the threat of moral relativism in emerging postmodern culture.
Dr. Rogers has written a forthcoming leadership book with co-author, Dr. Rick Amidon, entitled Today You Do Greatness, and he is currently writing Be One of God's Unlikely Leaders--Live With Focus, Get Things Done.
From 1991 to 2008, Dr. Rogers served as the visionary and successful presidency of Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, MI. Dr. Rogers was responsible for Cornerstone University’s three-part enterprise: the undergraduate college, the graduate program including Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and Asia Baptist Theological Seminary based in Singapore, and a Christian radio division known as “Cornerstone University Radio,” involving three radio stations, an internationally syndicated program called “Mission Network News,” and a nationally distributed children’s radio ministry called “His Kids Radio.”
Dr. Rogers has served on church, gospel rescue mission, collegiate athletics, independent college and university, and other nonprofit boards.
Dr. Rogers holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Akron, and a B.A. in Social Science from Cedarville University. He speaks regularly in churches, schools, commencements and other special events, business environments, and conferences.
© Rex M. Rogers, 2008
