Tag: Memorial

  • remembering Tim Keller: 1950-2023

    remembering Tim Keller: 1950-2023

    “The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.”-Tim Keller As a pastor, few people have influenced my thought and ministry more than Tim Keller. He passed away today from pancreatic cancer at the age of 72. I don’t remember the first time I listened to a Tim Keller sermon. I first remember…

  • Feels like yesterday: 9/11 through the years

    There aren’t very many days in your life where you know at the time that life is never going to be the same. Everyone knew that on 9/11. 18 years. Today is the only day ever where everyone who was born on or before September 11, 2001 is legally an adult and everyone who was…

  • Purdue super fan Tyler Trent passes away

    We don’t control the cards we’re dealt. All we can do is play what we have. Tyler Trent passed away on Tuesday. The Purdue student had battled a rare form of bone cancer. He had become a sensation in college football and Big Ten circles as being someone the Purdue football team rallied around this…

  • Remembering our 41st president: George H.W. Bush

    I do not mistrust the future. I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger. Our challenges are great, but our will is greater. -George H.W. Bush It’s a National Day of Mourning as America’s 41st president is laid to rest. Anyone who knows me knows that…

  • Eugene Peterson – author of the Message – dies at 85

    Eugene Peterson, pastor, professor, and writer passed away today at the age of 85 after battling dementia and heart failure. Peterson authored 35 books in his lifetime. The most popular among them was The Message, which has sold over 20 million copies. The Message is a paraphrase translation which attempts to capture the idea of a Biblical verse and…