Gary Derickson

I teach Biblical Exposition Courses and NT Greek at Corban College in Salem, Oregon.

CONVERSION EXPERIENCE

The Lord drew me to Himself through my father’s testimony. Just before my seventh birthday I listened as my father witnessed to a neighbor at our dining room table. When the neighbor left I asked him to explain to me how I could become a Christian, which he did.. Then a week or two later, during a revival in which the evangelist preached on Hell, I trusted Christ and immediately made my decision public.

EDUCATION

• College: Texas A&M University: B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) and M.S. in Horticulture (1975, 1977).
• Army: Transportation Officers Basic Course 3-77.
• Seminary: Dallas Theological Seminary: Th.M. and Ph.D in Bible Exposition (1986, 1993).  Dissertation: “An Evaluation of Expository Options of 1 John.”

• “The Relationship of Endogenous Abscisic Acid to Peach Chilling Requirement, Bloom Date, and Applied Gibberellic Acid,” HortScience, 13:6 (1978): 694-96. Co-authored with Dr. H. H. Bowen.
• “Engineering for Transportability’s Role in the ILS Effort,” Translog, 12:7 (July 1981): 14-15.
• “What is the Message of 1 John?” Bibliotheca Sacra. 150 (January-March 1993): 89-105.
• “Viticulture’s Contribution to the Interpretation of John 15:1-6.” Bibliotheca Sacra. 153 (January-March 1996): 34-52.
• “The Cessation of Healing Miracles in Paul’s Ministry.” Bibliotheca Sacra. 155 (July-September 1998): 299-315.
• Study Notes on 1-3 John in The Nelson’s Complete Study Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997.
• Study Notes on 1-3 John in The Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Commentary. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999.
• “Incarnational Explanation for Jesus’ Subjection in the Eschaton.” In Looking into the Future: Evangelical Studies in Eschatology. ETS Studies Series. David W. Baker, editor (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2000).
• The Disciplemaker: What Matters Most to Jesus (Salem, Or.: Charis Press, 2001). Co-authored with Earl D. Radmacher.

 

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