Gary Tyra is Professor of Biblical and Practical Theology at Vanguard University of Southern California. His previously published works include Getting Real (2018), Pursuing Moral Faithfulness (2015), A Missional Orthodoxy (2013), The Holy Spirit in Mission (2011), Christ's Empowering Presence (2011), Beyond the Bliss (2010), and Defeating Pharisaism (2009). In addition to his work in the academy, Tyra has pastored three churches over a thirty-year period, one of which was a church plant.
