About the Guest
Jody and Linda Dillow
Joseph (“Jody”) Dillow, ThD, is the author of several books including Final Destiny: The Future Reign of the Servant Kings; The Waters Above: Earth’s Pre-Flood Vapor Canopy; Speaking in Tongues; and Solomon on Sex. He is one of the co-authors of Intimacy Ignited: Conversations Couple to Couple, along with co-authors Linda Dillow (his wife) and Pete & Lorraine Pintus.
Dr. Dillow came to Christ while majoring in Electrical Engineering at Oregon State University in 1963. Upon graduation, he went to Dallas Theological Seminary, where he majored in New Testament Greek and received his ThD in 1978 in Systematic Theology. While there, he directed the Campus Crusade work at SMU and later at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In 1977 he served briefly as a visiting professor in systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. In 1978, God led Jody and his wife, Linda, to Vienna, Austria, where they were used of God to found and direct the ministry which is now known as BEE World (Biblical Education by Extension World). For 14 years they ministered behind the Iron Curtain, and then they moved to Hong Kong in 1992 to launch BEE in China, South Korea, and Vietnam.
Linda Dillow is the author of the bestselling Calm My Anxious Heart, What’s It Like To Be Married To Me? and co-author of Intimate Issues. As a missionary in Europe and Asia for seventeen years, she’s trained Christian leaders in Russia, Hungary, Poland, and Asia, teaching women and helping them launch women’s ministries. Linda is a bargain hunter and can smell a sale a mile away.
The Dillows now live in Monument, Colorado. They have four grown children and ten grandchildren.
About the Host
Dave & Ann Wilson
Dave and Ann Wilson are hosts of FamilyLife Today®, FamilyLife’s nationally-syndicated radio program. Dave and Ann have been married for more than 38 years and have spent the last 33 teaching and mentoring couples and parents across the country. They have been featured speakers at FamilyLife’s Weekend to Remember® marriage getaway since 1993 and have also hosted their own marriage conferences across the country. Cofounders of Kensington Church—a national, multicampus church that hosts more than 14,000 visitors every weekend—the Wilsons are the creative force behind DVD teaching series Rock Your Marriage and The Survival Guide To Parenting, as well as authors of the recently released book Vertical Marriage (Zondervan, 2019). Dave is a graduate of the International School of Theology, where he received a Master of Divinity degree. A Ball State University Hall of Fame quarterback, Dave served the Detroit Lions as chaplain for 33 years. Ann attended the University of Kentucky. She has been active alongside Dave in ministry as a speaker, writer, small-group leader, and mentor to countless wives of professional athletes. The Wilsons live in the Detroit area. They have three grown sons, CJ, Austin, and Cody, three daughters-in-law, and a growing number of grandchildren.