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Steven Curtis Chapman is not going to retire from playing music—ever. The highly-awarded Christian musician says that he expects to be playing music even when he is 95.

Two thousand people attended and 10,000 more joined the livestream for the memorial service for Dr. Tim Keller, held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Tuesday, Aug. 15.

The first time she retired, in 2002, Dr. Rebekah Naylor, a longtime missionary surgeon, came home to Texas after 35 years in India to care for her mother, who was ailing. This fall, Naylor will retire again, stepping down from her role at the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board.

Believers and church leaders are honoring Dr. Timothy Keller, who passed away Friday morning at age 72 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Outreach Magazine editor-in-chief, Dr. Ed Stetzer, said Keller’s death felt like losing a “spiritual father.” 

Dr. Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, died at the age of 72 the morning of May 19 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Here are some reasons why Paul was able to finish his race well and what pastors can learn from him.

In a spiritual will written in 2006 and released by the Vatican on Saturday (Dec. 31), Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI thanked his family and friends, but chiefly God, for standing by him during his long life and career in the church.

There is a certain type of evangelical Christian that Michael Clary, lead pastor of Christ the King Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, felt comfortable ridiculing during one period of his life. Clary says that before he repented, he looked down on people who had a “country religion.”