Good morning on this the last Saturday of July. This week some previously undisclosed information came to light in the news. The former Beatle, John Lennon, had both a genuine fascination and flirtation with evangelical Christianity. The famous musician had earlier written the song, Imagine, in which he highlighted the desirability of a world with no religion. The recent news article revealed that he later listened to Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and Pat Robertson and periodically corresponded with them beginning in 1973, even requesting prayer for his family on one of their hot lines. He spent time during the summers in a resort town near the mountains of Japan where a missionary regularly conducted services and would ask questions about Christianity of the missionary on a continuing basis. Most of his questions apparently centered on the deity of Jesus Christ. It was previously reported that he had written a letter to a number of evangelical preachers asking forgiveness for his earlier statement about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus. It appears that he became an ardent seeker in his later years. His wife, Yoko Ono, was reportedly quite upset with his interest in Christianity and constantly argued against the truth of the Christian faith, particularly challenging the truth of the deity of Christ. While we do not know for sure the condition of any man's heart, it appears that he might have been like King Agrippa in Acts 26:28 who said to the Apostle Paul, "Almost you persuade me to become a Christian," because near the end of his life he wrote the song, Save Yourself. I can only hope that he ultimately found his way to a saving knowledge of and relationship with Jesus Christ. That would be really something to "Imagine."

Tomorrow's sermon is the another in the series on Heaven and is entitled, The Unobservable, Unspeakable, Unimaginable Reality. You won't want to miss it.

Mel Brown