Greetings and salutations. This is Life and Books and Everything.

I'm Kevin DeYoung. I want to read today the tribute that I wrote over the weekend for Tim Keller.

I'm sure everyone listening to this realizes that Tim passed on into glory last Friday after several years battle with pancreatic cancer.

And of the many things, to give thanks for loved how Tim said repeatedly that his battle was not

with cancer but with his own sin and so through Christ he has won that battle and we rejoice with

him even though we grieve it's been a heavy week not only Harryeder, who is very well known in the PCA and somewhat outside of that,

perhaps some listening here wouldn't have been as familiar with Harry, and read a tribute to him earlier.

He was the founding pastor here at Christ's Covenant, where I serve and had a fabulously

fruitful, faithful ministry, and then pastored for the last quarter century at Briarwood

and Birmingham. In addition to these two saints, Tim and Harry, another senior statesman in the

PCA, Stephen Smallman passed away.

He would be well known in the PCA.

He was in his 80s.

In fact, his book, all of our young people do in their communicants class as they make

profession of faith.

So he's known for that and a number of other things as well.

And then just last night, as I'm recording this on Monday, yesterday, on Sunday, the word came out

that Donald McLeod from Scotland passed away. So a number of leaders, pastors, thinkers, writers

in the Presbyterian and Reformed world have

passed away in just half a week.

And we trust that the Lord's timing is perfect and its providence knows and foresees and oversees

all things, and we rejoice in that.

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