Evangelical American minister and television and radio personality who established Florida's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and produced The Coral Ridge Hour (TV) and Truths That Transform (radio).
After becoming ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., he shifted his affiliation to the more conservative branch of the denomination, the Presbyterian Church of America.
He attended the Columbia Theological Seminary, the Chicago Graduate School of Theology, and New York University.
He and his wife, Anne Craig Lewis, welcomed a daughter named Jennifer in 1962.
He and Leroy Jenkins were both popular southern televangelists.