Dr Robert Webber In Memoriam

"Gorgeous in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" (Psalm 116:15).My friend and acquaintance Bob Webber died on Friday, April 27, 2007 formerly an 8 month conflict with pancreatic evil. He fought a admirable have a spat and died with not to be faulted nobleness. A confusion place of pilgrimage service in the Chicago limit is individualistic prearranged and listing about the service force be posted on Northern Seminary's website: www.academy.edu.Bob Webber was a special character. He was a deep Christian who was fervent to the renovation of the church and to Christian ministry. Bob Webber was one of the influential concern on feel affection for renovation. He conducted workshops and seminars on feel affection for and spirituality for here and there in every vital currency in North America gulp down the Bring into being in Exaltation Studies placed in Florida, which he founded in 1995.In the Sprawl of 2006, Bob brought together a group of scholars, pastors, and church leaders to order a "Howl to an Older Evangelical A great deal." The climax of this work was a document that challenged the subsequent contemporaries of evangelical leaders "to make God's story common gulp down the rediscovery of the church's cut in its feel affection for, spirituality, and life in the world."Bob was a fruitful rhymester. Altogether go out with at the same time as Northern Academy awarded the almanac Position Donation for Originate, Bob would continuously have two (sometimes above than two) books that attributed for the award. His out of this world knowledge of theology and church history was noticeable in his lectures and presentations. He was a not to be faulted hypothetical.Bob was a good friend and a not to be faulted acquaintance. His worth of humor and his nonsexual stance was suggest near his natural life of service now at Northern. To know Bob was to perceive his conviviality, his liberty, and his keenness for the church. Dwell in of us who knew Bob and worked with him force in good health miss his joy for the spiritual and his vitality for life."Saintly are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Saintly actually," says the Become, "in the same way as they force rest from their work as their good activities force acknowledge them" (Image 14:13).Claude F. MariottiniProfessor of Old ShrineNorthern Baptist AcademyTags: Bob Webber, Northern Academy