Robert Simms is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and did doctoral studies with Trinity Seminary. He was a Southern Baptist pastor for twenty-five years and then entered a career of preaching and writing. He then acquired a second career as a judge, serving South Carolina in the summary court for thirteen years until retirement. He has written more than twenty-five books, several of them Bible commentaries, as well as devotional books, philosophy, Bible studies and poetry. He has been published by the SC Baptist Convention, the OK Baptist Convention, Stewardship Development Association, and PublishAmerica.