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D. James Kennedy has died

Early this morning, D. James Kennedy heard the words of Jesus, "Well done my good and faithful servant."

Before his death, he wrote:

“Now, I know that someday I am going to come to what some people will say is the end of this life. They will probably put me in a box and roll me right down here in front of the church, and some people will gather around, and a few people will cry. But I have told them not to do that because I don’t want them to cry. I want them to begin the service with the Doxology and end with the Hallelujah chorus, because I am not going to be there, and I am not going to be dead. I will be more alive than I have ever been in my life, and I will be looking down upon you poor people who are still in the land of dying and have not yet joined me in the land of the living. And I will be alive forevermore, in greater health and vitality and joy than ever, ever, I or anyone has known before.”

You can find funeral arrangements and other details here.

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I thought of Kennedy after last Sunday. Just before the service, I met with one of our attendees and shared the Gospel with him. The conversation began going in circles until I asked him...
If you died today and God were to ask you, “Why should I let you into My Heaven?” what would you say?

It was at that point that the circles ended. Roy simply bowed his head and made Christ the Lord of his life.

We can never get so cool that the plain truth does not apply. We owe a debt to God for working in the lives of men like Kennedy to do the good work of the Gospel.

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