Dr. H. T. Spence

Dr. Hubert Talmadge Spence is both president of the Foundations Schools and pastor of the Foundations Bible Collegiate Church, Dunn, North Carolina. He is the first of three children of Dr. O. Talmadge Spence and Dr. Joye Spinney Spence.

Married to Joy Kathryn Klepper of Oklahoma City, they have three children and six grandchildren. Although he was ordained in the Pentecostal Holiness Church at the age of 20, he left the denominational system with his father in 1974 because of the pervasion of the contemporary Charismatic movement. His father commenced the Foundations Ministries in June of that year. Dr. Spence became the vice president in 1980 and assumed the presidency in 1999.

Dr. Spence has a doctor’s degree in theology and Bible and for over forty years has taught at Foundations Bible College & Seminary on the undergraduate and graduate level in the areas of Christian education, Bible, history, theology, music, and philosophy. He has traveled throughout the United States and many other countries presenting the Scriptures in the light of history, philosophy, and present trends that mark our society. He is presented in the "Personalities of America," the "International Biographical Society," sponsored by Cambridge University of England, "Who’s Who In American Education," and has received numerous other biographical awards and nominations.

As an authority in the area of contemporary Christian music, Dr. Spence has written an in-depth book entitled "Confronting Contemporary Christian Music," which has been translated into Spanish and German and has been viewed by many professors of history, philosophy, and music as one of the most candid, plenary writings of insight on the subject from a conservative perspective. He has lectured on this subject in many churches in and out of the United States. Dr. Spence has written numerous sacred hymns, musical dramas, and sacred plays.

His book "The Canon of Scripture," a survey study of each book of the Bible with extensive introductory information on the background of the Scriptures, is in its second edition and has added information on each of the Gospel accounts as well as sections on Jesus the Messiah, archaeology, the kings and prophets of Israel and Judah, along with charts on Passion Week and Crucifixion Day.

Another of his works is a five-volume compilation of his writings called "Crucial Truths for Crucial Days." The Psalms of Degrees or "Psalms of Ascent" are recorded in a devotional treatise Dr. Spence entitles The Ascent of the Christian Life. Written to bring the reader to a greater doctrinal understanding of the Bible for the Christian life is "A Catechetical Study for the Remnant." His little booklet "A New Life in Christ! What Does It Mean?" was especially written to help the new convert. In his work "The Rise and Fall of Historic Christian Fundamentalism," the author takes a candid look at the changes in the Fundamentalist movement over the past 150 years. This book is also available in Spanish. Probably his most far-reaching scriptural study on holiness of heart and life and how to attain such a life is outlined for the Christian in his verse by verse commentary on "The Epistle to the Hebrews."

Dr. Spence is the editor of both the "Sunday Bible Pointer" (Sunday Bible-class lessons) and "Straightway," the publication voice of the Foundations Ministries. He is also the host speaker of "Forwarding the Faith" radio broadcast which may be heard over the Foundations Bible College radio station www.fbcradio.org and other stations. His numerous sermons and lectures are available through the website www.foundations.edu.