Jill Briscoe
Get to know Jill Briscoe, one of our Gifted for Leadership editorial advisors.
January 5, 2007 |
Jill Briscoe has an active speaking and writing ministry that has taken her to many countries. She has written more than 40 books, including study guides, devotional material, poetry, and children’s
books. Jill is executive editor of Just Between Us, a magazine of encouragement for ministry wives and women in leadership. She serves on the boards of World Relief and Christianity Today International.
A native of Liverpool, England, Jill launched into youth evangelism after becoming a Christian at age 18. She married her husband, Stuart, in 1958, and since then they have ministered together through Telling the Truth media ministries at conferences and mission organizations around the world. They reside in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Stuart has just completed 30 years of ministry as Senior Pastor of Elmbrook Church. Both Stuart and Jill now serve Elmbrook as ministers-at-large. They have three children—David, Judy, and Peter—and enjoy the blessing of 13 grandchildren.
Read Jill's Gifted for Leadership articles:
-- "New Conversions or Changed Lives?" (December 28, 2007)
-- "Celebrating Milestones of Faith" (December 25, 2007)
-- "The Genderless Gifts" (July 17, 2007)
-- "Food for Thought" (May 17, 2007)
-- "Does the Bible Really Say I Can't Teach Men?" (January 6, 2007)
See Jill's contributions to our other Christianity Today International resources:
-- "Does the Bible Really Say I Can't Teach Men?" Today's Christian Woman magazine (September 2003)
-- "In This Together", (Interview with Jill and husband Stuart) Leadership journal (April 2001)
-- "This Isn't Your Grandmother's Marriage", (Interview with Jill and Stuart) Marriage Partnership magazine (Winter 1999)
-- "Keeping the Adventure in Ministry", Leadership journal (July 1996)
-- "Ministering Women, Part 1 and Part 2", (Forum discussion with Jill, Miriam Adeney, Mary Kassian, and Jean Thompson) Christianity Today magazine (April 1996)
-- "Three Temptations of Ministry", Leadership journal (October 1994)
-- "Crumbling Clay", a PreachingToday.com sermon (Listen to the audio message!)
-- "Yet I Will Praise Thee", a PreachingToday.com sermon (Listen to the audio message!)
-- "Loving God with All Your Heart", a PreachingToday.com sermon (Listen to the audio message!)
-- "Hilarious Hupotasso", a PreachingToday.com sermon (Listen to the audio message!)
-- "The Forgiveness of God", a PreachingToday.com sermon
-- "The New Normal", a PreachingToday.com sermon (Listen to the audio message!)
Posted by Amy Simpson on January 5, 2007
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