The Anchor That Holds When the Diagnosis Comes

In 2019, a seminary professor received a stage-three cancer diagnosis. His colleagues expected devastation. Instead, they found him at his desk the next morning, Bible open to John 14:27, marking the Greek text with a steady hand. "Peace I leave with you," Jesus declared — not as a suggestion, not as a wish, but as a definitive, authoritative statement from the lips of God incarnate.…