Novak asked his followers to be praying for the Osbournes and shared that he ran into Jack a few days later at a convention. Jack told Novak, “Your gift meant more to dad than you know. He wouldn’t go to his hotel room without your gift. He specifically said, ‘Where’s my Bible? I’m not going up without it.’”
“We had to go back down to find it at his table,” Jack continued, saying that Osbourne wanted to make sure he got everything Novak gave him, which included a letter.
Jack informed Novak that “during their family lunch the next day, the Gospel material was the topic of conversation, and that it meant a lot that each gift and letter was specific and not generic.” Novak shared that Jack told him that “Ozzy has had the Bible on his bedside table since being home, and has been showing everyone who comes to visit the ‘Bible that has my name on it!’”
Moments after Osbourne’s passing became news, Billy Graham’s grandson, pastor Tullian Tchividjian, thanked Osbourne for his honesty and called him his brother on social media.
RELATED: Heavy Metal Church: Church Plant Uses Music to Reach Others for Jesus
“Oh Ozzy…you wild, beautiful soul. You gave misfits like me a soundtrack for our lives,” Tchividjian said. “Beneath the madness was a tender heart that understood pain, and sang it loud. Crazy, Iron Man you—thank you for the honesty, the chaos, the comfort. Rest now, brother. Grace has the final word. Love, Tullian.”
