"Michael Hardin and I go way back. He was my student and friend at North Park Theological Seminary in the mid 1980s. I was a green PhD in New Testament. Michael was a cocky and astonishingly self-taught theologian who seemed to know a little bit about just about everything. Even then, for the timid, he could be intimidating The same fire that is in Michael today was in him then. It was a fire that could warm those who wanted to listen and learn...