Eddie Cloer attended Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas; Oklahoma Christian in Oklahoma City; and Harding Graduate School of Bible and Religion in Memphis, Tennessee.  He holds the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Theology, and Doctor of Ministry degrees.  His doctoral thesis focused on evangelistic preaching.

Having begun his preaching career at age fifteen, he has preached the gospel for over forty years, serving congregations in Clarksville, Hot Springs, and Blytheville, Arkansas.  He has preached in more than 850 gospel meetings in thirty-five states of the USA, London, England, Singapore, and Ukraine.

Dr. Cloer teaches Bible and preaching classes at Harding University.  He is the author of three books in a series on the church: What Is “the Church?”, God’s Design for “the Church”, and “The Church”: The People of God’s Purpose.  He has also written “Thus Far the Lord Has Helped Us.”

Since 1981, Eddie has edited and published Truth for Today, a monthly publication for preachers and teachers.  In 1990, with World Bible School teachers and the Champions church of Christ in Houston, Texas, he began the Truth for Today Printed Preacher School.  Its expository Bible studies assist thousands of preachers and teachers around the world, who are converting countless souls to Christ.  He directs the Truth for Today World Mission School, a non-profit mission work reaching out to nearly 40,000 preachers in 152 nations of the world.

Eddie and his wife, Susan, have two children, Teresa and Steve, and a daughter-in-law, Lindsay.