D.C. Adkisson was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. He met his wife, Annie Baker, while attending Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. Following six years of service in the U.S. Air Force he began his career in Christian education serving thirty-nine years as a history teacher, coach, and administrator. After receiving his Masters degree from Northern Kentucky University, he accepted a position in San Antonio, Texas, where he has ministered in a Christian school for the past twenty-two years. Since 2001 he has written a daily devotion that is called the "Daily Paine." He is the author of a novel, The True and Unbiased Life of Elias Butler. Raised in Colorado and still misses the mountains, but he would tell you there is nothing like Texas. He has been married to Annie for forty-five years; they have two daughters and four grandchildren.