I was very impressed and blessed by the outpouring of sympathy and kind concern shown me at the time of the death of my roommate. His funeral was very moving and meant a great deal to me, and I enjoyed being with his family at that difficult time.
While I was in his home the week before, I recorded a 15-minute interview with Bob in which I talked with him about his worldview and about the faith that enabled him to live for four years with someone whose values were completely different from his. On November 29th I’m going to preach a very unusual sermon. I will be sharing my personal testimony and interspersing the testimony with Bob’s testimony now preserved on DVD. Many of you have expressed the feeling that you knew him and yet don’t know what he looked like. That will be handled on Sunday morning at both services on November 29th.
If you have a college or high school student in your home, I would strongly urge you to bring them and let them hear from this man who had the maturity of faith at 18 to be a major influence in my life.
God’s grace is astounding to me, and the further along I move in live, the more astounding it becomes. His arrangement of our being roommates was one of the many acts of grace He did in my life prior to my becoming a Christian. I am grateful to God for all He did for so many years and look forward to expressing it on Sunday morning, November 29th.
