DR. JIM W. BRYANT

Dr. Bryant has been preaching the Gospel since he was sixteen years old. He is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He and his wife, Ruby, have two sons and two grandchildren.

For almost forty years, he has served churches in the Southern Baptist Convention. His pastorates include Hoffmantown Baptist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sagamore Hill Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas; and the Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Before the above pastorates, Dr. Bryant served for five years at the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, as Minister of Evangelism and Church Organization, under Dr. W. A. Criswell. During that time, Dr. Bryant became the Founding Dean of the Criswell Bible Institute, now the Criswell College.

Dr. Bryant received the Bachelor of Arts degree, with honor, from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He also holds the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Theology degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1999, The Criswell College awarded him the honorary degree, Doctor of Divinity.

From 1991 to 1993, he was the Executive Vice President, then President of the Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta.

From 1993 to 2002, Dr. Bryant taught at the University of Mobile’s School of Religion in Mobile, Alabama, where he held the rank, Professor of Religion.

In August of 2002, Dr. Bryant became the Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Criswell College in Dallas, Texas. Since August of 2004, he has served teaching fulltime as Senior Professor of Pastoral Theology.

Revised 5/16/05