Giving Thanks for Harry Reeder (1948–2023)
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In many ways, Harry was a man’s man: strong, athletic, and confident. But he was also a family man. We should pray for his wife, Cindy, along with their three children—Jennifer, Ike, and Abby—and their many grandchildren. Harry will be greatly missed by thousands, but especially by his family. I’ll miss him as a Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) founding father, as a ministerial example, and as a friend.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to life and books and everything. |
| 0:13.1 | Today I want to read a special tribute that I wrote for Harry Reader. |
| 0:19.6 | Gospel Coalition asked me if I would write a reflection |
| 0:23.4 | on my friend Harry, who sadly passed away just yesterday, |
| 0:29.5 | as I'm recording this on Friday, just yesterday, |
| 0:31.8 | Thursday morning, tragically in a car accident. |
| 0:35.9 | And I was happy to do that. Even as I finish this late last |
| 0:41.3 | night and now recording this, just within the past couple of hours, I've also received the sad |
| 0:48.0 | news that Tim Keller has passed away. So these are hard days in the PCA and for the broader church. And both Harry and |
| 0:58.1 | Tim were friends of mine. World has asked that I would write up something for Tim in short order. |
| 1:05.6 | So I hope to do that. Not that it's my full-time job to write reflections like this or that everyone needs to |
| 1:15.9 | hear from me every time some well-known Christian passes away. But both of these men have had an |
| 1:22.3 | influence in my life and we're friends. And I mean that. It's easy to say so-and-so is a friend, |
| 1:30.1 | and it's somebody that you met once at a conference. |
| 1:33.2 | But Harry and Tim were really genuinely friends, |
| 1:38.3 | and I give thanks for their lives. |
| 1:40.7 | I want to read this TGCPs that came out this morning, |
| 1:47.5 | giving thanks for Harry Reeder, 1948 to 2023. |
| 1:50.5 | I have some sad news to share, a subdued voice told me over the phone. |
| 1:56.0 | Harry Reeder died in a car accident this morning. |
| 1:59.0 | That was the call I got for my friend yesterday afternoon. |
| 2:02.8 | I couldn't believe it. I had just seen Harry two weeks ago at the Gospel Reformation Network |
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