John MacArthur is the featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. Prior to his homegoing in July of 2025, John was the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, as well as an author, conference speaker, and chancellor of The Master’s University and Seminary.

In 1985, John became president of The Master’s College (formerly Los Angeles Baptist College; since 2016, The Master’s University). Located in Santa Clarita, California, it is a distinctly Christian, accredited, liberal arts institution offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. In 1986, John founded The Master’s Seminary, a graduate school dedicated to training men for full-time pastoral and missionary work.

John was also chairman and featured teacher with Grace to You. Founded in 1969, Grace to You is the nonprofit organization responsible for developing, producing, and distributing John’s books, audio resources, and the Grace to You radio and television programs. Grace to You radio airs more than a thousand times daily throughout the English-speaking world, reaching major population centers with biblical truth. It also airs over a thousand times a day in Spanish, reaching twenty-seven countries across Europe and Latin America. Grace to You television airs weekly on DirecTV in the United States, and is available for free on the Internet worldwide. John’s 3,300-plus sermons, spanning more than five decades of ministry, are available for free download on this website.

On July 14, 2025, John’s faith became sight. He is survived by his wife, Patricia, their four married children, Matt, Marcy, Mark, and Melinda, as well as fifteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.