David Lipe

David L. Lipe holds an A.A. degree and third-year certificate from Freed-Hardeman University, a B.A. from Harding University, an M.A. from Harding School of Theology, a Ph.D. from The University of Tennessee, and an M.S. from The University of Memphis. Lipe has been preaching since 1967 in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama and has been involved in mission campaigns in five foreign countries. He holds a number of gospel meetings each year and gives lectures on other occasions.

He has written several books and served as editor of more than thirty lectureship books. From 1990 to 2010, he was a professor of Bible and Philosophy at Freed-Hardeman University and continued to serve as the Director of the Annual Bible Lectureship through 2015. In 2012, Lipe became the Director of the Southeast Institute of Biblical Studies (formerly East Tennessee School of Preaching and Missions) in Knoxville. He retired as director in 2014 but continues to teach and work in fundraising and development for the school. He and his wife, Linda, reside in Baxter, Tennessee, and he preaches for the Cherry Creek church of Christ in Sparta, Tennessee.