Celebrating a Life on Fire: Remembering Luis Palau — Stark & Main

His library was surprisingly wide-ranging, flowing from his belief that a teacher of the Bible should never stop learning. For all his fire and persistent stubborn streak, he had spent a lifetime building a team of genuine partners rather than yes-men.

The man I came to know well, over burgers and coffee and old photos and worn bible pages, was a man childlike and growing to the end, proof that the “good news” he always preached could be lived for a lifetime and remain good. His faith and life’s accomplishments did not produce a dour moralism. It did not produce a Graceland-sized ego. For all his

that he had died to this world, entering the hope that he had so long proclaimed.

it was quickly apparent that years only matter in a friendship if you let them, and we bonded in the course of shared work.

What appealed to me most about the man was that he seemed to care so little about superficial perfection, and so much about what was happening inside a person.