A former U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot, KJ Johnson is interviewed by Wayne Shepherd about his testimony and role as Director of Chicago's CS Lewis Institute. (click for more...)

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Karl “KJ” Johnson, Lt.Col., USMC (Ret.), a former U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot with a 20-year military career, shares how God redirected his life toward intentional spiritual discipleship after recognizing a personal lack of being deeply discipled despite growing up in a Christian environment. Raised in Chicago with strong faith influences from his mother and grandmother, Johnson drifted spiritually during college and early military years, but recommitted his faith after marriage and fatherhood, developing a hunger for Scripture and Christian thought. His transformative experience came through the C.S. Lewis Institute, where structured, relational discipleship—focused on heart and mind—provided mentoring, community, and theological depth that reshaped his life and calling. Now the director of the C.S. Lewis Institute in Chicago, Johnson leads a yearlong, interdenominational discipleship program emphasizing intentional commitment, mentorship, and holistic spiritual formation, equipping believers from all walks of life to grow in Christlikeness and live out their faith in tangible ways.

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Former radio shock-jock Phil Reaser tells his story of coming to faith in Christ and redirecting his life to follow God's call. (click for more...)

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Phil Reaser shares a powerful testimony tracing his journey from growing up as a pastor’s son with an early love for Christ, through years of rebellion marked by a shock-jock radio career, substance abuse, and spiritual emptiness, to a dramatic return to faith. After achieving professional success in secular radio, Phil became deeply convicted through a Billy Graham broadcast and later experienced a profound personal encounter with Jesus that led him to fully surrender his life to Christ at age 37. This turning point redirected his career into Christian radio, Bible training, teaching, and ultimately a life of mentoring others in faith. Now retired, Phil emphasizes the importance of spiritual encouragement, unconditional support, and mentoring—offering others the same guidance that helped restore his own life and align it with God’s purposes

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Gregg Quiggle, author of BREAD AND BIBLES, talks with Wayne Shepherd about 19th century evangelist D.L. Moody and his focus on not only evangelism but social action as well. (click for more...)

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Dr. Greg Quiggle joins First Person to discuss his book Bread and Bibles, which reframes the legacy of D. L. Moody as a figure who integrated evangelism with extensive social action. Drawing from letters, biographies, and contemporary records, Quiggle explains that Moody not only preached the gospel but also addressed poverty through job placement, education, aid to the poor, Civil War relief work, and ministries for children, orphans, and the urban disadvantaged. While acknowledging Moody’s moral failures—particularly his compromises on racial segregation and silence on lynching—Quiggle presents a balanced portrait of a deeply influential yet imperfect Christian leader whose life challenges today’s polarized debates by demonstrating that faith-driven evangelism and social responsibility need not be opposed but can, and should, work together.

NEXT WEEK: Phil Reaser

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