Martin Allan Jackson is a retired newspaper editor, electrician, computer technician, emergency medical technician, and an active publisher.  He used his influence as owner of Four Craftsmen Publishing to get his writing on spiritual warfare in print. With his wife, CeCe, he's also written a new book, Radical Grace for Finances.

    After growing up in a family with an officially agnostic position, Martin met the risen Lord Jesus Christ in a secularized Spanish Catholic mission church.  He claims to have become a bond servant or slave of Jesus at that time.  His education in spiritual warfare has been on the job.  He says his teacher has been the Holy Spirit, with the Bible as the textbook.

    Martin was born late in 1937 in Jerome, Arizona.  He grew up around historians and archaeologists studying the Native American and Spanish cultures of Arizona and New Mexico.  He attended schools in both states, but finished high school at Hollister, California.  He completed a degree in international relations, international economics and public administration at Pomona College.  He also met his future wife there.

    After beginning a journalism career he spent two years in the United States Army, teaching Hawk air defense missile guidance systems.  He completed his military service as a Specialist Five and acting platoon sergeant.  Then he returned to newspapers in California and Arizona as an editor, reporter, photographer and troubleshooter.

     Always ready to volunteer for anything good for his community, he's helped found chambers of commerce, been a Boy Scouts committeeman and merit badge counselor, staffed a medical rescue unit, and trained teachers for the American Heart Association.

    “God had had enough of me as a ‘Lone Ranger’ Christian by 1966, and told me to join a church,” Martin says. The church was Trinity Lutheran in Hemet, California.  Martin and his family have maintained membership in Lutheran congregations ever since, though they’ve been active across denominational lines in many ways and instances.  It was in Hemet that Martin met the Rev. Dick Mills, who is a “spiritual father” to him and to many other Christian men.  The call to serve God as a soldier came there too.  After a move to the mountains of Arizona Martin became a school bus driver, electronics technician and electrician, and continued study and application of the weapons of spiritual warfare.

    Weapons of Spiritual Warfare, second edition, a book published by Four Craftsmen, is a current snapshot of that study.

    Radical Grace for Finances, written with his wife, Cecelia, describes the learning process CeCe and Martin went through in financial matters, finding out that God is indeed reliable for all He's promised. To read about Cecelia, click here.