Comments on: Victory in Death

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:00:00 +0000

Well isn't it a small world? I never knew you know them as well. Gentleness is one of the first qualities that comes to mind if I were to describe you, so you must have learned it well.
I heard you stopped by STR last week- too bad I wasn't there. Drop me an email. We should try to get a meal together before summer ends.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:38:00 +0000

Oh, yeah: I'm also reading Fuz Rana (with Hugh Ross)'s Who Was Adam? and Ross' The Genesis Question. I know, a little pedestrian; but I need choices on the middle shelf, because Philosophia Christi makes me light-headed, and the Chick tracts just don't satisfy me anymore…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:06:00 +0000

Has it been five years already?
You don't get to claim Marty for yourself. As a teen and a young Christian, I was impacted deeply by Marty's Christ-like character.
When I left my parents' home after high school graduation, I moved into a rented house that I shared with three roommates, Marty being one. Looking back now, I see that we were all very young: two of us just eighteen; Marty and another young man in their early twenties.
But at the time, the two men five years my senior seemed to be spiritual giants (all of twenty-three!), and I looked to them for direction and guidance, whether the question was how to treat a girlfriend, how to manage my money, how to serve others selflessly, or what the true measure of a man was. I learned and grew tremendously from all three of my roommates, as a young man and as a Christian, in the short time we were under one roof, until Yoko, I mean Eva, married him and broke us up.
My own father worked hard, drank hard and played hard. Marty's gentleness amazed me, and I used that modeling of Christ's character to begin to deconstruct a part of my personality I hadn't asked for, but had inherited. That's the quality I'll always consider remarkable about Marty, and the one trait of his that has become the most infused into my own character: the meekness that I so desperately need. I'll be forever thankful to him for just that. Describing the totality of his impact on me would take pages.
If you found any gentleness in me, part of it was Marty's, reflected.
Enough blather. Look forward to hearing you w/ John Snyder on the radio. Keep up the good work. I'm using part of the summer to finish my Ambassador Basic Cirriculum.
Jeff Coulter

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:54:00 +0000

Yes, Thanks. He obviously had a siginificant impact on your life.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:08:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Roger.