A Great American Dies

I was fortunate today to stumble upon a TV channel I do not normally watch which broadcast the funeral service of Dr. James Kennedy from his church in Florida though as the founder of Amway so rightly said it may have been referred to locally as "Kennedy's church" but the pastor who led it always knew and referred to it as Jesus church.

There may have been some famous people in the audience though I did not see any. Just people sad yet glad that they knew this fine Presbyterian minister. I never met him myself though like many I am sure knew him and his preaching of God's word through the Coral Ridge church's television ministry. He was without doubt one that America should be proud to call her son.

Dr. Kennedy was a man passionate about religious freedom. He was also passionate about America and can rightly be described as a patriot. Sad that a country that has produced so many great patriots in the past now produces so few men that may be described as modern day patriots. Dr. Kennedy stood up against the theory of Darwinism which many treat wrongly as a universal law though perhaps man made religion would be a better descriptive term. He lived to spread the gospel. He took seriously Jesus charge in Mark 15 to "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

Now I don't know much but I do know that perhaps Allan Jackson summed it up best when he sang " I'm just a simple man but I know Jesus and I talk to God." Well tonight this simple man thinks that up there in heaven is a man named James Kennedy who heard the words "Well done good and faithful servant."

And I pray that here on earth his wife and daughter heard all of heaven say Amen!