Stephen Manley (1942–2025). Born on July 18, 1942, in Indiana to a Methodist pastor, Stephen Manley was an American evangelist, pastor, and author who dedicated over six decades to preaching Jesus Christ. Converted at age seven, he began filling his father’s pulpit at 11, studying at Taylor University and pastoring a Methodist church by 17. In 1962, he married Delphine Oliver, adopting two children, Stephen Christopher (1967) and Evangeline Faith (1968). After pastoring Methodist and United Missionary churches, he entered full-time itinerant evangelism in 1968, initially with Crusade Evangelism, later the Stephen Manley Evangelistic Association, joining the Church of the Nazarene in 1971. His family traveled with him from 1972 to 1982, settling in Upland, Indiana, where Delphine managed the ministry office. In 1987, he began training interns, leading to Cross Style Global Ministries, with over 180 international Bible centers. Manley founded Cross Style Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 2009, pastoring until his death. Known as a “Jesus Pusher,” his expository sermons, emphasizing the cross’s centrality, reached global audiences via the Stephen Manley Sermon Podcast. He authored books like A New Level and Godly Sexuality, but published posthumously, as he prioritized preaching. Diagnosed with brain cancer, he died on March 4, 2025, survived by Delphine and their children. Manley said, “I am a Jesus pusher, mastered and obsessed by Him.”