First Person with Wayne Shepherd

To honor all military veterans, this FIRST PERSON episode tells the story of the late USAF Major General Carl Schneider. Thank you to all veterans who have served their country.   (click for more…)     
Books:  Little House on the High Plains, Jet Pioneer
This First Person Veterans Day episode is an archived interview, hosted by Wayne Shepherd, with retired Air Force Major General Carl Schneider, who died in 2023 at age 95. Schneider grew up on a Texas cotton farm and enlisted in 1946, first working as an armament mechanic on B-29s. He then entered Aviation Cadets pilot training, which was reopened after World War II. His career ran from propeller planes (T-6, P-51) through jet fighters, and he flew combat in both Korea and Vietnam. In Korea, 22 of the 32 pilots in his section were lost, and he kept a pact with his fellow pilots to visit their families afterward, some of whom he stayed in touch with for years. In 1962 he set up the Forward Air Controller program in Vietnam. He also trained Korean pilots who later became generals, which fueled his support for the Far East Broadcasting Company. He credits his Christian faith with guiding and protecting him, and he describes his wife of 44 years as a supportive military spouse. After she died, he remarried. He wrote two books, Little House on the High Plains and Jet Pioneer, and he donated the proceeds to veterans’ groups.
                                                  NEXT WEEK:  Ray Rhodes 
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An explanation of why the church celebrates Reformation Day as Dr. Gregg Quiggle joins Wayne Shepherd in conversation about the history of the Reformation.   (click for more…) 
Website:  www.moodypublishers.com/authors/q/gregg-quiggle/       
Dr. Gregg Quiggle says the Reformation shaped culture as well as the church. It changed how people think about marriage and work, and it fed the push for public education so people could read the Bible in their own language. He notes it wasn’t the church’s first split. The East–West schism of 1054 came earlier. By the 1500s the Western church had become large, bloated and corrupt. Reformers argued that the corruption was a symptom of deeper doctrinal problems, which he frames as three questions:
The church: Protestants held to the priesthood of all believers, where Rome saw the clergy as the church.
Salvation: Protestants said faith in Christ alone saves, where Rome said salvation came through the institutional church.
Authority: Protestants said Scripture alone, where Rome said the church’s teaching authority.
He describes five Reformations: Luther in Germany, Calvin, Zwingli, the English Reformation under Henry VIII, and the radical Anabaptists. He stresses that the reformers wanted to call the church back to its roots, not start a new one. He also admits the irony that “Bible alone” has produced many denominations because people interpret it differently. The episode ends with a mention of his new book with Erwin Lutzer, Marx and Moody.
                       NEXT WEEK:  The late Maj. General Carl Schneider (USAF)
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Alistair Begg of the radio program Truth for Life discusses the fruit of the Spirit and his latest book, titled We Will Be Changed with Wayne Shepherd.   (click for more…)    
Website:  www.TruthforLife.org
Book: https://www.truthforlife.org/store/products/books-alistair-begg/we-will-be-changed/
Host Wayne Shepherd talks with Alistair Begg about his new book, We Will Be Changed, on the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23). Begg is more than a year out of the pulpit at Parkside Church after 42 years. He now focuses on his radio program Truth For Life, writing and speaking, and says he misses the congregation but enjoys freedom from weekly sermon preparation and more time with family. He stresses that Scripture says “the fruit” (singular) of the Spirit, like the segments of an orange. It is one package pointing to Christ, so no one can pick the traits they like and skip the rest. Believers are called to cooperate with the Spirit, whom he calls the often-neglected member of the Trinity, in becoming more like Jesus. Begg then discusses love as the root trait, joy as a deep reservoir that survives suffering, peace with God, and patience, with brief nods to kindness, goodness, faithfulness and gentleness. He closes by encouraging listeners to ask God to conform them to Christ, and to be honest with others that “God is not finished with me yet.”
                     Next Week:  Gregg Quiggle discusses the Reformation
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Zach Heinold is a now a dedicated Christian husband and father, co-owner of a residential construction business. But he tells Wayne Shepherd of almost ruining his life until he met Christ.  (click for more...)  
Zach's Business Website: https://heinoldhomes.com
Raised in church with a Sunday-morning requirement, Zach describes drifting in his teenage years into a popularity-driven crowd and a hidden double life — playing sports and getting decent grades on the surface while struggling with drugs and alcohol, even attending church while high. He talks about constant remorse, fear of being found out by his family and future wife, and escalating legal trouble — seven arrests/tickets in 2007 alone.
The conversation highlights his father's non-judgmental, faith-centered support, his wife's similar background of growing up in church and returning to faith, and his rock-bottom moment on the night of August 1-2, 2008. After college loans for SIU-Carbondale were denied and he planned to sell drugs instead, he says God gave him a clear choice that night — die or get help — leading him to wake his father at 1 a.m. and enter rehab, where his journey toward restoration began.
                                              NEXT WEEK:  Alistair Begg
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After experiencing a construction accident, Brad Willey began thinking deeply about his life when an unexpected stranger showed up to point him to Christ. He tells his story to Wayne Shepherd.   (click for more…) 
Website:  https://missioneurasia.ca
Brad Willey, now executive director of Mission Eurasia Canada, talks about how he came to faith. Willey grew up in a rough, isolated mountain town in western Canada where fighting, drinking, and gang influence were part of daily life. Around 2001–2002, he was operating heavy equipment when a landslide pushed his machine 30 feet underwater. He cried out to God, escaped through the roof hatch, and survived. He attended church for six months afterward but felt spiritually lost and drifted back into old habits. Years later, on a December morning, he prayed for someone to explain God's message to him. That afternoon, at a Calgary truck stop, a stranger with a Polish accent told him about Jesus, and Willey committed his life to Christ. He then grew in faith through Christian radio and a men's discipleship group, and was baptized in 2008. After a 2019 mission trip to Chile, he moved into full-time ministry, which led to his current work supporting field teams in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.
Next Week:  Zach Heinold
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